Nurse the Hate: Best News Story Ever?

The news can be a depressing read. Kids getting shot. Babies on fire. The business section. Every once in a great while a story comes through that reminds us all how great print journalism can be. With that in mind, I present the following:

East TN man found asleep in ditch with rifle, moonshineASSOCIATED PRESS •

November 12, 2009

ATHENS, Tenn. — When Ricky Butler went to sleep on a rural, East Tennessee roadside, he didn't have to worry about comfort but apparently he was feeling insecure.

McMinn County deputies found the 31-year-old Decatur man sleeping on his back in a roadside ditch, with a loaded rifle on his chest and an almost empty jar of moonshine in the bib of his overalls.

Butler told deputies who woke him up Sunday that he didn't know where he was. He also told them the jar had been full.
Deputies said Butler also had a machete and hand-rolled cigarettes believed to be marijuana.