Common sense isn't.

You can expect to come across some rough looking characters in the area, but I haven't personally had any trouble yet. It is a fairly remote area, though, and there isn't much "supervision." Most people seem friendly enough, and they usually wave as they pass. On weekends the main road is more crowded, and many ATV riders are probably from the local Windrock ATV Club. I've been there once mid-day on a Friday, and we didn't see more than a handful of other people. Since the road is about 1 1/2 lanes wide in most places, people have to cooperate to get through.

Be aware that, like most places, trouble happens. A search of the Oak Ridger's Newspaper archives turned up several articles about various criminal or accidental happenings, as listed below.

But what area hasn't had trouble?
• ATV Accidents:
  9/25/02 article
• Bodies disposed:
  Michael Mealey:
  Guilty Plea - 1/10/02 article, 6/27/00 article, 5/17/00 article, 4/14/00 article, 2/24/00 article, 2/14/00 article, 2/11/00 article, 2/11/00 article
  Imogene Anderson:
  7/3/00 article, 3/21/00 article, 3/20/00 article
• Shooting out lights on tower 5/29/00 article
• DUI 2/29/00 article, 2/28/00 article
• Driving on Suspended License 9/26/00 article (2 by same person)
• Running off the road 7/19/02 article, 3/6/00 article
• Drug "lab" found and other drug problems 10/2/00 article, 6/30/00 article, 6/29/00 article, 6/2/00 article
• Vandalism Oil Wells 7/13/00 article Car 2/23/00 article
• Coercion of Witness 3/13/00 article, 2/22/00 article,
• Arson 11/6/00 article including picture of Windrock Road being blocked, 11/22/99 article, 11/17/99 article, 9/15/98 article

Quote of the moment

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro—speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

~ Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), U.S. suffragist. As quoted in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, vol. 3, ch. 67, by Ida Husted Harper (1908). Written to President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905, reacting to a stirring speech he had made at the Republican Club of New York City on Lincoln’s birthday. The speech, “devoted principally to the race question,” argued that the African American man “should be treated with regard to his merits and not his color.” ~

Common sense isn't.

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