[Bristol-Birds] Police, news crews, med flights ready for BBC roudy big party.
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 14:01:13 -0500
Police, TV news crews, medical helicopter, traffic chopper,
stage to cover, manage and control Big BBC Xmas Party
City Police SWAT team gets last minute instructions before
moving to their command post in Apple Valley as they
prepare to control enthusiastic Bristol Bird Club party.
Long lines of TV news satellite trucks from Richmond
to Memphis stage in south Bristol to cover BBC
party.
Parking may be difficult as more than 40 TV stations
and national news outlets park in neighbors' yards
across from Michele Sparks' home in Apple Valley
just before noon today.
Police used
racetrack parking
lot to stage backup
news teams and
their news crews
as the final moments
and countdown begins
for big BBC party.
Wellmont One medical
chopper stands by along
TN Rt. 394 to airlift over
enthusiastic BBC party
goers who over eat and
need stomachs pumped
Asheville NC TV station
traffic chopper patrols
US 11E watching traffic
flow as cars stream towards
the BBC party and long
lines backup at exits along
I-26, I-81, I-381 and Rt. 394.
Traffic was slow in Erwin, Greeneville, Wytheville,
Rogersville and Jonesborough as birders stop to fill
their ice chests and picnic along roadsides headed
to the BBC Christmas Party.
BBC hostess and party thrower
Bayou Girl Michele Sparks
says she has already had so many
complaints from neighbors and
police about the size and rowdiness
of the BBC Party that she has taken
her phone off the hook.
When asked what she told those who
were complaining, she said
"I just told them to:
"BRING IT ON ! "
Jambalya, Crawfish Pie, Filé Gumbo...
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