The Rocker Returns!/Not How It Works

No, it's not about Mick Jagger rebounding from another session of cosmetic surgery. It's about the much maligned thrift store owner who refused to relinquish a donated rocking chair. 

While we haven't previously used her name, and she seems to have several, the former owner of the thrift store is Melissa Gayann Hargett, aka Melissa Cook, aka Melissa Graham. Apparently she had a set-to with a partner/family member this weekend and was arrested:

Thrift Store Owner Jailed

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Area makes international news...twice in one day! No, sorry, it wasn't good news. If you glanced at the Daily Mail this afternoon you saw where Christopher Kilpatrick's famous escape routine was featured. The second story? It featured hilarious typos. Do we need to say "Sex Clams?"

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Do you know how things work? Two incidents this week (and it's only Monday) reminded us how little most know about their local governments. We've seen criticism of Florence police for allowing Christopher Kilpatrick to escape. In case any don't know, Florence pays a fee to the county to house its prisoners and has no control over jail employees or protocols. 

Now we're seeing Muscle Shoals citizens who think the city council can override the school board. We had inferred those attending tonight's meeting wanted the school board sacked for incompetence, which theoretically could be done...and perhaps should be done. But to overrule them and let them remain? No. Why have the board in the first place? Perhaps they should be elected as they are in Florence?

Let the lawsuit against the board begin.