A recent e-mail from dad, better known as "Moose," directed my attention to a news item in Middle Tennessee. WTVF in Nashville published these pictures of a cave in Trousdale County that reminded me of a story I once covered in Kentucky.
My co-hort of many years, Lilla Marigza, and I were dispatched to Clinton County to cover what authorities had un-earthed. It seems a man and some of his closest buds extended a basement to form an underground growing facility that stretched several hundred feet and included all the necessities of a modern greenhouse. Grow lights, generator, exhaust fans, scales, you name it. Needless to say, this was bound to attract some attention.
Interestingly enough, State Police found the underground bunker when they were doing a fly-over with FLIR, a device used to sense hot spots on the ground. They noticed an unusual amount of heat coming from an outhouse. Either those beans that Paulie Avery had eaten for dinner were coming back to haunt him, or there was an exhaust fan under the, ahem, toilet.
We were there to cover the demolition of said bunker. A rather anti-climatic event as we were stationed about a quarter mile away and heard nothing more than a loud rumble as they detonated explosives underground. There was a rather large hole in the ground after we made our way back to the scene. We also took a tour of the house. Strange indeed. One thing that stands out in my memory, red fixtures in a downstairs bathroom, from a red shower stall and a red sink to a red, yep, toilet.
Oh, the things people will do for a few bucks. OK, so even though these chuckle heads were making several million bucks a year, I still don't think it's worth it.
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