Where Country Music Comes From
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008By raincoaster
Apparently, country music comes from Hartman, Arkansas. How appropriate.
A twelve year old and his ten year old sidekick got “liquored up,” stole his father’s truck, set off in search of a girl they’d met at the rodeo, jumped a guardrail, and ended up at the bottom of a hill in an Ozark forest in the middle of the night.
From the Modesto Bee:
Clark James, 46, who lives down the road from the crash site, said he answered the boys’ banging at his front door with shotgun in hand about 2:30 a.m.
“I opened the door and the first thing (the 12-year-old) said to me was, ‘I’m drunk and I had a wreck,'” James said. “I looked at him and I thought ‘You’re kind of young to be out drinking. And you sure shouldn’t be driving.’..”
Teresa Belew, executive director of the Arkansas chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said the 12-year-old is the youngest person she’s heard of facing a drunken-driving charge in the state.
James bets that both Johnson County boys are grounded for life.
“If not, then they should be,” he said.
How long till they get a movie deal and an interminable Kenny Chesney song?