The Mississippi Department of Public Safety issued the following statement.
Capitol Police was involved in a pursuit involving a stolen vehicle. Both vehicles struck a large pothole in the road, disabling the Capitol Police vehicle.
The subject was able to flee the scene but has been identified. No injuries have been reported. Capitol Police is actively investigating and following leads
in this incident. If anyone has any information, please contact Capitol Police at 601-359-1325.
Kingfish note: The pothole is at the intersection of Wood and Superior streets.
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The only way to make this story any better would be for the suspect to have fallen in the pothole and he had to be rescued by police by lowering a rope down to him.
Most law enforcement agencies use those strips which flatten tires when pursuing criminals. Jackson does have to do that because the potholes do the job instead.
So, in summary...potholes have stopped more criminals that the Hinds county judges in 2023.
Barney Fife-
A true indictment of the shambles once known as Jackson, MS. Wonder how many people have made claims against this once great city.
It's hard to think of Jackson as a well managed or even adequately managed City in any aspect - crime, roads, libraries, water, education. The hole in the bucket has gotten larger under Lumumba.
It is merely the perception of a pothole. We will convene some community listening sessions to determine if video of potholes should be allowed.
"The only way to make this story any better would be for the suspect to have fallen in the pothole..."
Or, the Capitol Police vehicle was disabled when it hit a tree that was growing in the pothole.
I'm pretty sure the NTSB doesn't have a racial justice division, so I wonder how Lumumba is going to try to pin this one on the state.
Define: Choke Holed: Vehicle destroyed by one of Lil Choke's pot hole craters.
Make them a tourist attraction. Let these potholes get deeper - real deep. Name them - either after the street they are on ("Superior Slough", "Wood Street Catacombs") or after city leaders that didn't/won't fix them ("Crevasse du Chockwe","Yarber's Gorge" - the latter not to be confused with the ostensible Atlanta GA attraction that bears the same name). Start a few urban legends/rumors about bandits hiding spoils of house burglaries in them. Post a few pics on FB of people finding stolen jewelry and/or catching huge bass while exploring them. Sell maps of the location of the biggest ones (like Hollywood star homes) - guided tours, self-exploration, "keep what you find", etc., sort of a Journey to the Center of the Earth meets Searching for Pirate Treasure kind of thing.
St. Francisville has made a fortune off of "ghost tourism." And ghosts don't even exist. These potholes are real - we just need them a bit bigger for this to work. Let's get after it - at a minimum we need a bid proposal to study the economic impact.
I can remember times (not recently) when one or two city dump trucks drove the city streets each day witrh a two or three guy crew and a big scoop of asphalt. When they came to a pt hole, they stopped the truck, filled it and packed it down. You might be surprised how they kept up with a large portion of the pothole repairs.
To prove how old I am, I can remember when jackson was a good town wth good streets.
A buddy of mine (who was "high up" in the city at that time) told me that ground-zero for the 'hood in Jackson was the corner of Wood and Ash. Heck, this hole is right down the skreet from there.......
Jackistan - where the pot holes have their own zip codes.
"I can remember when jackson was a good town with good streets."
And, it can be again. It needs true leadership and to move beyond the racial divide that is sustained by people who want to profit from it. We need to take our capitol city over, just like the US population needs to take the Federal Government back over.
“I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this any more!” -- Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network
I wonder what's going on in that neighborhood? Apparently, they ain't takin care of things, because in the 2019 Google Street View, the hole is patched at that point.
Must be that ol bad cold weather actin up again
Hell, the fine citizens of Jackson spend a lot of time bitching and griping. They don't care on bit for community.
If a pothole was in front of my house, I would dig some dirt out of my backyard and fill it in. Then, I would go to Lowe's & buy 2 or three bags of asphalt topping and top the hole off.
Ever heard the saying " Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you".
Quit bitching and get to work!
5:58 Yep.
Honest question: Sometimes I get hungry/bored enough to accept work in areas I don’t really want to go. I go prepared, but can you ever prepare enough? A few years back I was driving down Wood St. near the park, and best I can remember, there was a park bench every hundred yards or so. Each park bench had a young (under 18) male sitting on it, and when I would get near each consecutive bench, the child would run up to my car trying to sell me drugs. Granted, the “Wood Street Boys” that Frank Melton used to always talk about were running the area then. So my question is, are they still that bold (or worse) in that area, and did they try to sell to the cop stranded on the road? I honestly don’t think those kids cared who was driving down the road. I’m sure they had a quota they were scared to not meet.
@8:42pm
Backyard dirt and a couple bags of cold-patch will dissemble in a few days. It takes red clay sand, compaction, then hot asphalt. Maybe pipe repair also.
How will a backyard road patcher stay safe from texting drivers while he's playing in the street?
They identified the guy. They have the license plate of the car.
As usual,car chases have only entertainment value for morons.
Potholes are my street are addressed quickly.
Perhaps it is because we ask with politeness.
If some of the comments are indications of persuasive skills of persuasive skills ,then you'd only make my " when Hell freezes will I help this jerk".
Insults may scare some of you into action, but normal folks just dismiss you as a waste of time.
Is the Capitol Police slowly replacing JPD and the Sheriff’s Department? They definitely have taken over and are working hard to deter crime unlike the other two Chuckway-controlled dysfunctional entities.
I ask politely for anything because I have manners.
That said, my tone should not be the deciding factor in how my tax dollars are allocated.
This is the real world and the public works employee have a job.
They don't have to like the way the residents ask. They just have to do it, to collect a check. At least that is how it used to work.
"Make them a tourist attraction. Let these potholes get deeper - real deep. Name them - either after the street they are on ("Superior Slough", "Wood Street Catacombs") or after city leaders that didn't/won't fix them ("Crevasse du Chockwe","Yarber's Gorge" - the latter not to be confused with the ostensible Atlanta GA attraction that bears the same name). Start a few urban legends/rumors about bandits hiding spoils of house burglaries in them. Post a few pics on FB of people finding stolen jewelry and/or catching huge bass while exploring them. Sell maps of the location of the biggest ones (like Hollywood star homes) - guided tours, self-exploration, "keep what you find", etc., sort of a Journey to the Center of the Earth meets Searching for Pirate Treasure kind of thing." January 23, 2023 at 5:28 PM
So many great ideas! And remember: in Mexico, the giant sinkholes are called 'Cenotes'. Chichen Itza is the famous one where there was human sacrifice - which couldn't possibly be worse than regular goings-on around Jackson. But some Cenotes are for swimming and diving.... so many possibilities...
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