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Unusual Object in the French Broad River
allen griggs
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Yesterday morning Daisy the Beagle and I took the 1 1/2 mile walk down the driveway, and down to Little Pine Road and the river. We walked out to the middle of the bridge and this is what we saw in the water. It is lodged securely on the bottom of the river. Somebody stopped in the middle of the bridge and tossed it over the side.
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permentely flushed
Anyway to fish it out?
Not your problem but I would try to dispose of it where it belongs.
Reminds me of my days working along the Cumberland River in Harlan County, KY…
We were paddling the Bluestone river in WV, came around a bend and there sat a big TV set on a rock in mid stream. We stopped and watched a couple episodes of Andy Griffin.
People suck.
Well some people suck anyway…..
With the junk commodes out now, you have to flush 3 times to get it down that might be worth fishing out.
I believe that one came from the Russian space station. Go down and look for the Cyrillic logo.
This bridge is 1.2 miles from the Madison County Landfill. They could have hauled the toilet up there and legally dumped it for a $3 disposal fee.
I remember people saving old car tires inplace of paying the three dollars maybe two, back then
They Load Them in a pick up truck one would toss the tires out while the other drove along river roadorsome other country road
No not me, but I knew them, sad to say
Neo, you obviously don't know my wife!!😂
I won't mention the word hillbilly, but my father used to say poor folks have poor ways.
I own 1/4 mile of Bear Creek, just around the corner from this bridge. Twenty years ago they had the gang of prisoners, about 15 of them, walking the creek bed on Bear Creek Rd. to remove trash.
In 1/4 mile of creek they pulled out 9 tires, two push lawnmowers, and a big old cabinet Magnavox tv set. Here again these hillbillies all had this junk in the bed of a pickup as they drove down Bear Creek Rd. Rather than driving 2 miles to the landfill and paying 2 bucks to dump it, they just tossed it into my creek.
Trash dumps are in some folks heritage/breeding. They will "dump" their trash and junk off the bank at the same place for many years no matter how close a dumpster is or how many times it is cleaned up.
Junk toilet in creek or river is better than one emptying raw sewage into it.
That sill goes on in some places.
Redneck recycling. Just find the nearest creek or river and call it done.
🇺🇲 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇲
It's terrible that people do that.
Allen,I grew up near that river.Years ago there was old cars,bicycles,tires and whatever in the river.It was so nasty and polluted none of the locals would get in or fish in it.Sometime in the 70s it was cleaned up and stayed clean enough to support a good fish population,even Muskies that was said to be native to the French Broad.I would hate to see it go back like it was and I hope what you found was an isolated incident.As far as landfills charging a fee,it better for them to be free.If they charge a fee or turn stuff away,some people will throw it on the side of the road and the county will have to pay to pick it up and it will go in the landfill anyway.
Wonder if Boeing had any connections to that one?
Asheville airport is not too far south of the said toilet.
Friend was hunting, lizards, easy HD, salamanders, for fish bait. Small mouth bass love'm.
Further up in the sticks the bigger the bait. Soon found out why, Outhouse was built straddling the creek on two poles.
Pretty sure the creek had some "brown" trout in it.
Allen, I thought you were going to say you saw some British broad in the French Broad River……..
Anyone tied to it?
I posted this story in the local Facebook page. The readers were mightily offended that someone would throw a toilet in the river. Some guys went out there yesterday afternoon and fished the toilet out of the river.
would make a nice planter for the front yard………..
Who would throw away a perfectly good toilet?
@hillbille it could do double doody too
Genius!
In prison in the old cell house it had porcelain/ ceramic stools. Inmates would fill the bowl with t.p. and set it on fire. Taking cover behind thier mattress they would hit the flush button. Like a frag grenade, covering over half the teir. When that cold water hit the hot ceramic/porcelain, bomb like.
Don’t forget the seat!
Old toilets have many uses.
That's a hatchery that farms boneless brown trout.
I talked to the guy who fished the toilet out. He went down there in his canoe and dragged it into the boat by himself. Those toilets weigh about 105 pounds.
He stood in waist deep water, and held the canoe steady in the current, and loaded up that toilet into the boat.
I told him "Good job. You are a strong Young Buck."
Hey Guys, I'm still alive. I guess Allen won't mind if I high-jack his thread.
I grew up on the property at the mouth of the French Broad River on the right of the photo, called The Forks of the River.
The picture below is in the early part of the last century showing the mouth of the French Broad River on the right of the photo and also the mouth of the Holston River straight ahead and the beginning of the Tennessee River to the left of the photo. Best years of my life were spent there from the 40s to the 90s.