• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

ATLiens, I am not as negative on Mayor Bottoms as most, but this seems insane (link)....

I remember About 12 years ago riding early Sunday morning in a hot July summer. This was pre iPhone maps, and I got turned around and ended up in the hood. I knew I was in trouble when I saw Bankhead Marta station which although I never had been by this place, it was always in the news. Being at 7am in the morning there wasn’t many folks outside. I am dripping sweat biking up a hill and a water boy was pulling a white cooler on wheels and tried to sell me a bottle of water... most bizarre thing I’ve seen. Literally no one outside but him.

I then did a little research and it’s a big scam where the older kids or adults get kids to sell the bottles. Probably make 100% markup. It’s the same structure as selling drugs and can see why there’s turf wars, etc.
Also gotta love how Bottoms wants to get in the action and take a cut and also exploit those in the inner city.
 
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