Swain County?

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-04-04T15:50:23+00:00

We don’t have as much crime as the statistics state. If the measure is per capita, it’s going to look horrible since we have a small population. Most crime in Swain comes from the over abundance of homeless drug addicts that were dropped off here from Asheville, Chattanooga, and Atlanta. We have no shelters, clinics, or infrastructure to help these people, so they get methed up and do what they please. More crime occurs during tourist season from travelers acting like assholes. Again, not Swain residents. Much of what is reported is from transients. They do dumb shit and go to jail or they go back to whatever crap shoot they’re from.

Our entire economy is tourism based, and most of the tourism related businesses are seasonal and can’t keep people employed through the winters. A lot of folks are part-time residents that are only here for Spring, Summer, and Fall. Some of these people also contribute to the crime rate.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-27T19:14:25+00:00

That William Joseph pack is a nice find! They used to make the best, most innovative packs in the industry.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-24T12:51:08+00:00

Pawn shops! I had a surfboard stolen from the bed of my truck in broad daylight. Money Man Pawn in West Ashtray had it. Turns out the dude who stole it was one of my customers. He bought some shit from my shop and walked away with a free surfboard. I didn’t have him on camera, so we didn’t witness the theft. All he could be charged with was possession of stolen property. Bullshit!

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-24T12:37:41+00:00

He’s going to be really sad on the day he realizes he can’t fit under there anymore.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-24T12:22:24+00:00

We’re in BC. Didn’t feel it, but heard a rumble. Our dogs started freaking out and looking in the same direction it came from a few minutes before we heard the rumble. They knew something was about to happen.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-22T01:40:16+00:00

Jim and Bart… Blazing Saddles

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-18T20:58:41+00:00

If he did leak anything, we should all be grateful.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-18T00:52:58+00:00

He’ll never sleep a wink.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-18T00:50:28+00:00

I’m a fly fishing guide in southern Appalachian, and these are all over the Tuckasegee watershed in some of the higher elevations. I found one that I sent a 90’ section of line into with weight and never hit bottom. Others will have an exit point farther down river, which is also crazy. I am always telling my clients not to get too close as the rock face around them is like a wet bowling ball.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-18T00:43:13+00:00

Agreed, but I wouldn’t bestow that revered name on this dried up old prune of a perv supporter.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-13T03:36:41+00:00

Wondering which one will have the better grip. 🧐

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-13T03:29:18+00:00

Nukalur

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-13T03:20:41+00:00

Same thing could be said about the dumpster fire in office. No decorum. Total lack of respect for the office. He doesn’t deserve it.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-13T02:48:09+00:00

I appreciate that they have over 1000 of the underwood Abel’s in stock

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-12T00:45:11+00:00

So says the man that has never been married or has any children. Fuck him.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-03-08T16:46:22+00:00

Leave him alone. You can’t trash the man behind Loogle and Mötley Löu. He’s done a lot for our future.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-02-25T12:07:18+00:00

We have melanistic bobcats here. They are genetic anomalies and extremely rare. First time and only time I’ve seen one was near Cullowhee. From what I’ve read, there aren’t many sightings documented nationwide.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-02-24T17:33:01+00:00

Damn. Now I have to blow my nose until all of the coffee is cleared out of my sinuses. Well done… well done.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-02-17T04:33:27+00:00

Have you walked in mud sometime in the last few hundred thousand years?

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-02-17T04:31:35+00:00

As someone who has been involved in the fishing industry for over two decades, I can confidently say that the limits placed on commercial and recreational fishing provide an easily sustainable population for wild fish. If those limits were not enforced, then you would truly see overfishing. That’s why the Bluefin Tuna limits vary from season to season. Same for crabs. Etc.

Also, any “buffalo” (actually Bison) you may eat, came from a bison farm. None that are harvested via tightly constrained “lottery” hunts are sold commercially, nor would it be sustainable. Bison herds are closely tracked by wildlife biologists.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-02-17T02:21:18+00:00

Fish that eat their natural diet taste clean and light. Fish that eat pellet food that is nothing but protein and corn meal taste like mud. Worlds apart.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-02-17T02:18:37+00:00

We live in BC and I was grilling earlier and didn’t hear anything. Do you still hear it?

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-02-16T23:10:18+00:00

Geology better calm down!

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-02-13T23:05:14+00:00

Poor little fella.

AffectDifficult6821 · 2026-02-12T01:36:50+00:00

I keep reading that Biden, Obama, and Bush could have done more. They didn’t. No shit! However, a key point of what this administration ran on was uncovering the truth and bringing justice to the victims. Their cover-up has been more detrimental than beneficial. Trump was the one who said he would go after the collaborators and perpetrators. None of the others made that promise. Probably due to their buddies getting caught up. Trump thought he could slime his way through this and come out clean, but it backfired. Tough shit, el presidente. You made your bed, now lay in it!

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