Jackson Jambalaya

Man, am I glad I moved to Madison 40 years ago.

Spreading pics online of mentally ill people at their lowest point…stay classy, Kingfish.

Long-time reader of this blog. I don't see any good that comes from posting this type of pic. It's a shame there's so much of this one has to deal with driving around Jackson, but the man (and the vast majority of folks who end up standing in a median nude) obviously has some issues that need attention.

Partial? Looks like full nudity to me. But based on the size of the yellow blot, ain't nothin' to brag about.

@12:51 - This is Jackson. The mentally ill are in charge of the city.

@12:51 PM - I Strongly agree with you. KF, you can do better.

nasty

12:51 a lot of people get naked in public for different reasons. Surely not all of them are mentally ill. "Don't look Ethel!"

Refusing to acknowledge the mental illness crisis in America is liberalism at its finest.

Classy of the Democrats to prefer to hide this epidemic, indeed.

12:51 and 1:09
You still clicked on it, so stop with the shaming comments.

If you didn’t post this kind of thing, I wouldn’t know it occurred and wouldn’t believe there a people who do this kind of thing. If it isn’t brought to our attention, we would think all mentally ill people are just fine and not roaming around making people uncomfortable. I don’t like it anymore than the next person, but it needs to be seen instead of ignored.

KF, perhaps you should listen to some of the sermons that you post each Sunday.

I urge you to take down this picture and honor the dignity of this individual who clearly is suffering from some type of diminished mental capacity.

2:13 equals YAHTZEE!

12:51 I personally feel that this clown, along with the trannies, should be put in 1800s-era asylums. The government thought it would be better for us to take pictures of them acting fools, though.

I have oil from the moon to sell you if you really think that: (1) this story was posted for any higher purpose than cheap clickbait so that rednecks can get a superiority high; or (2) that we would all think that mental health issues don’t exist if stories like this don’t get posted.

This post was done to provide cheap and mean-spirited entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less.

I do not think it should be posted. What’s the point? You, me and all this blog’s frothing-at-the-mouth commentators are one head injury from being just another sack of hammers, nude and yammering, at the next Jackson intersection. I found the post (and comments) about the benefits of synthetic stucco at Dinsmore far more newsworthy and entertaining. Blah.

Hey folks, ever considered this person may NOT be mentally ill? There are a LOT of folks around Jackson these days doing things in violation of what once were mores and norms and are currently the laws of Jackson.....just because they know there will be no consequences for doing so! Not everyone has some underlying, uncontrollable issue that causes them to do wrong things. Some people will actually do wrong things unless (a) they're prevented from doing so or (b) there are actual consequences for them doing it.

Though many of you will find it hard to believe, there are people out there who see no benefit to an orderly, civil society. Not because they're mentally ill, not because they're otherwise afflicted, they just see no reason to live that way.....and I believe that's what we experience more of these days than anything. You'll never make me believe some affliction causes someone to spray bullets into a gas station filled with innocent people. They just don't believe order and civility fit their ideas on the way to live.

Sigh. Our society has arrived at actually celebrating mental illness, and NOT punishing willful disobedience of the law. It's more than likely, yes that he's "high" or drunk, but still belongs behind bars for not knowing who or where he belongs.

As Vincent Vega said to Jules Winfield, "What 'chu mean you're going to walk the earth? Without a job, or a means of legal tender - that makes you a bum Jules". But today's society celebrates vagrancy.

Hear me out...

it’s called NEWS People!
if this ain’t it…i don’t know what the hell you call it….
Too many mentally i’ll people on the streets and stores, parking lots and events…..

Always amused by all the anonymous control freaks that want to tell this business owner how to run his business.

Typical responses from the six followers of this blog. This is no laughing matter. It’s just not.

"so that rednecks can get a superiority high", kind of like the ones you get? In the end, we all leave with the same thing. You, me, the guy walking necked, we all leave with what we came with.

The problem is the city just ignores this issue and the state doesn't provide facilities for these people to be treated. We need to do better and get them off the streets. They are a danger to themselves and others.

A technicality, but Watkins Drive becomes Bailey Avenue when it crosses Northside going south. So this is the Corner of Bailey and Mayes.

The man is on PCP!

I encourage you to leave these types of posts to that clay edwards Save Jackson, KingFish. Keep going with all the great reporting you are doing.