Jackson Jambalaya

IT IS ABOUT TIME!

Why not require a permit to establish a campsite and have it last only three days max. Set it on fire after that.

All this stupid 'Eddie's Island' crap is ridiculous. We might as well let people set up living quarters under interstate bridges and have wine parties and poker and sleepovers.

I agree..It's about time

What is "Eddie's Island?"

I think we already have some squatter camps under Jackson interstates, I-20 @ Gallatin maybe ?
Anyway, the sandbar story has got Bert Case fired up - he can now spend a weekday up river interviewing Eddie.

Bert's been interviewing Eddie for at least two decades. How many times can you go up river, drink beer all day and axe the same questions about life on a sandbar? Eddie claims some sort of squatter's rights and has too long been allowed to become a hermit up there pretending he's in a Hemingway shoot.

Well 9: 37, get a visual of a Jerry Garcia "look-a-like" and ten thousand redneck groupies taking over Gilligan's Island. Only it's on the mighty Pearl instead of in the South Pacific.

Sounds like we need pics or video

Buuuuurrrrrrrrrtt has 'em.

Garcia and the groupies live in Pearl River sandbars? Really? Could someone give me some more details? That is bizarre.

How much detail do you need? Eddie has hung around the Ratliff Ferry store for thirty years or more. For at least the last twenty he's claimed to be living on an upriver island on the Pearl and claims it for his own. He's got an old piece of shit boat held together with bailin' whar. He's got a makeshift shack up there, hangs his underwear (when he wears them) on a clothes line hoping to bleach out the skid marks, cooks on his grill, speaks to the stars, drinks tons of warm beer and bathes in the downstream flow from outhouses in Leake County.

Burt hangs with him. Burt has spent tons of time on his pontoon doing 'on location' segments for the TV station, drinking beer and gettin' paid for it. If you're ever at The Ratliff Ferry Store axe about Eddie. You may get to see him. Buy him some deoderant and Schaeffers. He's a friggin' rock star.

For the record, Eddie is actually a really nice guy. His camp isn't an eyesore. And he more than welcomes anyone to camp at the sandbar. It's kind of nice actually, set up off to the side by yourself if you want, and you have a awesome campsite. He spends most of his time cleaning up after other boaters. Instead of worrying about Eddie staying for too long, the PRVWSD should worry more about all of the Rankin County trash that's seen drunk driving boats, littering, and their skanky girls exposing themselves to children.

Anyway, this just says 'abandoned' campsites. So as long as Eddie is still there, he won't be going anywhere. The other sandbars with the torn up tents and tarps will be the ones cleaned up.

Nobody needed to pass any ordinance to clean up abandoned trash, idiot at 1:58. If he leaves the site for a day to visit Ratliff Ferry and drink beer with Bert Case, he has abandoned his camp, if that matter.

And nobody has said Eddie is a bad character. However, the sandbars, just like the river itself, should be open to fun by and for all, not reserved for one person who thinks he has a permanent campsite right. He does NOT. Squatter's rights became illegal over a hundred years ago.

It's not trash 6:11. You apparently haven't been up river in a while. Almost every sandbar has tents on them, but there's no boat. There is almost always at least one person on eddies island. Usually several. Eddies island is not what is wrong with the pearl river.

Tell us then, Oh wise-one @ 10:06, just WHAT IS wrong with the Pearl River? This region of the river is no longer 'available' to families boating on Sunday. It's become a redneck boaters Bourbon Street.

Oh, sure....those 'families' who have their kids in tow poppin' tops for daddy and laughin' at mom's exposed boobs are havin' a ball.

and their skanky girls exposing themselves

Ummmm...where is this exactly?

Pics or it didn't happen and wypiihb?

KF......we're overdue for some cute dog pictures.

And all this while I thought this was a respectable blog. You are FAR from a gentleman, kingfish.

anyone know a number to call in case they need volunteers.

KF - looks like you offended a blue-haired church lady.

One who can18 translate wypiihb. Hmmmm

wypihb.... laughing my ass off,

I'm sure there's some of that going on on the sandbars too.