Jackson Jambalaya

Cue Chief Wade saying his boilerplate "We're not going to tolerate this" in 3... 2... 1...

Well at least no one died, sucks that I have bar that low

Is this still a "perception" of crime?

Not much good happens after midnight, especially in third world Jackson.

Hey Anonymous @ 10:54am this joke would've landed if his name was Chief Bo Lucky nice try though #CCID

Fondren property values dropping another 10% in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

The pen is mightier than the sword. But then again how many of us in Mississippi can read or write

Nothing will ever change in the COJ. It will only get worse.

I'm glad I'm old and no longer need to go near there with no Cherokee or Dutch Bar to go to.

Sunday night is race night in Jackson in which every idiot with a car modified to break the sound barrier rides down Northside, up 55, up and down State and Meadowbrook. Another reason why Jackson is not a peaceful place to live. Crowds gather in the parking lots along State and in front of the plasma building. The existence of raucous clubs like Taste, etc, doesn't help.

I guess their employers gave them Monday off.

I used to go to that area constantly, to the fire sale store, movie theatre, Marneys, Dutch Bar, etc. The last time I drove through, however, it reminded me of Mogadishu.

Sure smells like Madison in these comments. I get it. You need to find something to inflate your self worth after you found out your neighbor with a newer leased truck has been smashing your wife.

Only an asteroid can help it now.

Palm trees = Taste parking lot

I keep saying this is a culture problem. Even though Capital Police are trying they can’t stop this from happening. This culture was created over decades and there is no easy solution.

Deep redeeming culture.

This happened between Parlour Room and Taste. The neighbors have been complaining out the late night noise, traffic, and illegal parking since these places opened. The previous administration protected these places, but I'm hoping the new mayor will put his foot down and do something.

When caught, and they will be caught, I want to know how many charges each one has already on the books and some damn judge let them go. If needed, start sending the cases to any judge other than Hinds County so these criminals will actually go to jail.

Sailer's law of mass shootings wins again.

SAFE: Stop And Frisk Everyone in those areas with the most shootings. Punks will start leaving guns at home.

I agree with the previous post. It is a culture problem. It all started with fatherless homes. Just look at the all black areas in the 1940's and 1950's, when the black community still took pride in itself and consisted of the traditional family unit. Farish St. and areas like it were booming. It is too far gone to repair in areas like Jackson that are demographically lopsided.

Madison folk are wondering where North Mart Plaza even IS. But generally, among Madison's Truck-leasing Classes, the discovery that another bubba is "smashing your wife", is generally viewed as an OPPORTUNITY.

In the short term, it's an opportunity to drop the True Religion Jeans, and jump into the action. IT'S SANDWICH-MAKIN' TIME! (everybody wants to be the fillin' but generally they take turns) (are you new to the area, or somethin'? How do you not already know this?)

Later, you can use the video you recorded on your phone - prior to attaining nekkidity. You can "share" it at restaurants, Mardis-style (see Jackson Jambalaya Todd Mardis Archives). You can "share" it during 'Young Adults' class (good for becoming a popular couple!). You can use it as permanent protection against divorce actions by HER.

You can use the video, after discovering that 'Newer Leased Truck Dude' has enough money to be sued for 'Alienation of Affection'. That's become a cottage industry, in the Jackson Metro's better exurbs.

Instead of TruckNutz, you can tie a pair of upside-down plastic pineapples to your (leased) trailer hitch, and just go a bouncin' those big things, as your (leased) truck goes down the road.

Only in reunion subdivision upside down pineapple

@2:50 Madison residents are at home in bed with their spouse at midnight on a Sunday. They have business to run or are at least are gainfully employed by a for profit business. They don't have time to have 9mm bullet holes in their leased trucks or persons repaired. Not really white suburban culture, they were all up too early Sunday morning for church and an afternoon tennis/golf game.

12:27/2:50. You trolls left out “fake stucco.” Missed opportunity.

With the government paying for a single parent household, benefits from TANF, of $260 per month for a family of three and
SNAP benefits at an average monthly benefit of around $281 per person. There is no incentive for a father (figure) to hang around. Brilliant!!!

12:27, 2:50, 3:27 no doubt the same person posting... very insecure and small minded... childlike.

Some are. Some were born and raised in Jackson but were moved out of the city by our parents because they were tired of coming home to their houses being burgled. I do like that word. Honestly, who can spend 3 minutes inside Jackson and not see something crazy enough to make Jesus facepalm? It is sad to remember what the city used to be, what it has become, and what it will ultimately become.

Culture issues.

It's LBJ's "Great Society" buying votes while rewarding bad behaviour.

Dang 8 shot/injured must have been homemade bullets! Thankful no innocent people were killed.

Don't confuse this "Taste" with the great new restaurant of the same name that opened in Ridgeland last week.

2:50 here. Why are you lumping me together with those other posters? Here I was, walking on the sunny side of the street, being positive - pointing out that while lesser men might view the heaving toches of men with better trucks than their own, as threats, as sources of tragedy and divorce and endless kvetching, the superior gittin'-up-at-dawn-on-Sunday-mornins' menfolk of Madison SEE OPPORTUNITY. This is how they've made it out of lesser places, and into the halcyonic heights of Madison's entry-level planned communities. (developers please take note: No, you cannot name your next subdivision 'Halcyonic Heights'. There's that Implied Copyright thing, and I do not give you permish...)

As for 3:27, this person is clearly from another continent. I'm envisioning a Madison 'Planned Community', with a man-made waterfall... ..whose racquet club has just been bought with cartel money (identity theft, anyone?)... ...whose star resident could have been the Madison Pineappolis Poster Hunk - at one time - but he's not the "slave of satan", anymore, since a certain unfortunate injection made him incapable of sinning, anymore (the legal archives have the case, but I'm not sayin'....).

Better find out what’s going in the old hooters building. Every car parked out front has been a serious hooptie