Large group causes disturbance in Sevierville and Buc-ee's, Sevierville TN
Disorderly ConductA large group gathered in Sevierville exhibited reckless behavior, leading police to intervene. The crowd moved to Buc-ee's where authorities shut down the location and called tow trucks. Several arrests were made, and police prepared to use pepper spray to disperse the crowd and prevent further disturbances.
Audio|Source: WB4GBI 146.940 MHz Amateur Radio Repeater, Sevier County TN
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Transcript:
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Were you in Sevierville yesterday or Saturday and seen any of the mayhem? I know that it was in the evening that they finally put a squash on it, but did you say anything over the weekend?
00:16
No,
00:17
I was in Sevierville briefly on Friday, and there were groups here and there,
00:26
like over near Lowe's on 66, there's a tire place next door,
00:32
they had pretty much taken over that parking lot.
00:34
There were small groups of them, I mean, the police were, they were just pulling them over left and right. Oh my gosh, it was great.
00:43
No,
00:44
I've seen a little bit of that, but I stayed out of Sevierville far after that.
00:50
Didn't want nothing to do with it.
00:59
And I think Chris said something,
01:03
see, what did he say? I don't know if he's in here this morning,
01:06
said something about trying to get fuel at Buc-ee's was even difficult.
01:11
My understanding is,
01:14
after they broke that up, Buc-ee's had to shut down that same night because the crowd went over there.
01:21
So they ended up calling a bunch of tow trucks and shutting Buc-ee's down for over the hours.
01:32
So they weren't just stupid. They were stupid idiots moving on and on and on until they all got arrested.
01:42
Pretty much, in a nutshell, yes.
01:51
You know,
01:56
you take a group of kids that large and, you know, when they're in small groups, they can be respectful and, you know, and fly right. But when you get that many together, you know, I hate to say it, what would you think was going to happen?
02:12
Yeah.
02:14
Way too much stupid testosterone.
02:23
Well, you know, they came here, thought they could get away with it.
02:27
Of course, you know, police department small and everything else. Try getting away with that in a big city like Atlanta or something like that and see what happens.
02:45
You gotta think too a lot of these kids come from in cities and they try to bring that here and don't realize that I'm playing that game here.
02:55
It's just, it's, I don't know, it's hurtful because they give the place a bad name and ruin it for others.
03:09
Yeah, I had a couple here on the highway.
03:11
Uh,
03:13
got one in front of me and one about to pass me on the right. I watched it weaving in and out of traffic a couple of times.
03:21
Uh,
03:24
and, uh,
03:25
you know, just still driving stupid.
03:31
Well, I'm coming down in a Pigeon Forge now because I'm now veterans in a Pigeon Forge and head out to Gatlinburg and I've not seen a one.
03:39
I've seen plenty of police though.
03:49
I didn't hear Dr.
03:50
Day's in here this morning.
03:52
Oh,
03:56
I got in kind of late.
03:57
I didn't get in about 6.30, so I'm sure he was already at work, if he was on his way.
04:06
I turned on the radio one just a minute or two after six.
04:12
And I didn't hear him.
04:25
Just passed the split on 40.
04:30
We've got a couple hours of windshield time today.
04:46
I'm just going through a Pigeon Forge now and looks like they put an officer pretty much in each big parking lot just sitting there.
04:55
Not that I expect anything to go off today because, well, they're all bucking out, but yep, they're still just monitoring, I guess.
05:13
Yeah, let's make sure that they get out.
05:15
I wonder how they got them to get out, like,
05:18
literally get out of town.
05:22
They canceled the event, and from what I could see also that the police they showed up, all had gas masks on,
05:32
they were about to deploy canisters of OC and all of that.
05:37
I guess it was pretty intense.
05:50
Yeah, you can't think stupid.
05:54
Wonder how many got arrested.
05:58
I don't know, you know, I know there was some, because I mean they showed it in the video, you know,
06:05
certain ones are being dragged off, but I don't know that they had the power to arrest a whole bunch of, you know,
06:13
I mean, let's face it, when you're outnumbered probably three to one,
06:17
that's, it's hard to grab, you know,
06:20
as many as you can.
06:25
I guess just a mere satisfaction of, well I guess nobody deployed pepper spray, but just the satisfaction of deploying pepper spray would make it worthwhile.
06:49
When you get a group like that, I mean, it's not about the arrest, it's about dispersing them, you know,
06:55
as peacefully as you can,
06:56
so they don't tear up the rest of the town.
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Near Buc-ee's Blvd, Kodak, TN 37764
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