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

There is no question but that you and I think alike in the great objectives of the peace when it comes. The real problem lies in the methods to be used to attain peace without hate.... [I]t is my thought that time is an essential in disseminating the ideals of peace among the very diverse nationalities and national egos of a vast number of separate peoples who, for one reason or another over a thousand years, have divided themselves into a hundred different forms of hate.... Therefore, I have been visualizing a superimposed—or if you like it, a superassumed—obligation by Russia, China, Britain and ourselves that we will act as sheriffs for the maintenance of order during the transition period.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. letter, Sept. 21, 1943, to George W. Norris. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, pp. 473-474, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). This was a capsule description of what FDR called elsewhere his “Four Policemen” plan to ensure a lasting peace and give time for people to become accustomed to a new way of conducting their affairs in a democratic framework. He was determined that democracy would prevail over the authoritarian kinds of regimes which had, in his opinion, led to two world wars. FDR was convinced that one reason for the rise of Hitler in Germany had been the harsh peace imposed after the First World War and the hatreds which had been aroused during that conflict and over generations in the old world. ~

Common sense isn't.

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