Hey, Nashvillians....Whats with the Blue Light specials?

Gerald Creasy · Postby **Gerald Creasy** » February 24th, 2008, 8:08 pm

So I zip down to Nashville last night to catch Bobby Osbourne & The Rocky Top Express host the Midnight Jamboree over at the Ernest Tubb Record shop. Excellent chance to hear the man that Made "Rocky Top" a household song sing it live.

Any way I'm headed out of the city at about 2:30 trying to find an all night burger joint and I'm headed up Gallatin Pike to and through Madison and I notice all these Police Blue blinking lights every block or so. They seem to come from small lights mounted on boxes up on tall poles.

What are these things!? Big Brother?

MrDanger · Postby **MrDanger** » February 25th, 2008, 3:18 am

Don't know. I'm usually in bed around then.

panhandler · Postby **panhandler** » February 25th, 2008, 4:52 am

Are you sure you weren't on Dickerson pike? It runs to same way just 1 block over. That would explain a lot of blue lights. You know....late at night...coming out of a concert...lost your way....this excuse has been use by a lot of ministers and Gov officials lately.

:lol:

stevenson · Postby **stevenson** » February 25th, 2008, 4:54 am

In Columbus, if a house has a blue light in the window or out front, it means the pharmacy is open, if ya know what I mean!

Gerald Creasy · Postby **Gerald Creasy** » February 25th, 2008, 5:17 am

panhandler wrote:Are you sure you weren't on Dickerson pike? It runs to same way just 1 block over. That would explain a lot of blue lights. You know....late at night...coming out of a concert...lost your way....this excuse has been use by a lot of ministers and Gov officials lately.

Naw, Dikerson pike is on the otherside of 65, the westside. It was Gallatin Pike. I passed the place I got my first pair of glasses at 13 and the Shoneys -the Madison Church clubhouse of the early 1970s- and the Great Escape.

scooter · Postby **scooter** » February 25th, 2008, 5:29 am

Invasion of the KMartians!

Gerald Creasy · Postby **Gerald Creasy** » February 25th, 2008, 8:00 am

scooter wrote:Invasion of the KMartians!

Okay, I admit. that was clever.

scooter · Postby **scooter** » February 25th, 2008, 8:35 am

Gerald Creasy wrote:
scooter wrote:Invasion of the KMartians!

Okay, I admit. that was clever.

Response:

Full Quiver · Postby **Full Quiver** » February 26th, 2008, 12:29 pm

Gerald, they are Metro Police Cameras and the lights, that look like old cop car lights, are always on (I don't know why). I use to drive by a couple every morn ing and the lights were always on. There were a couple of markets robbed in that area where workers were shot so the police dept. opted to install cameras in that area to see how it would work. They won't necessarily deter crime but will or could help locate criminals as they try to get away.

Jude 2