CLAY CO.—It took us a while this morning to get through and verify, and an even longer while to post it, but another rampant rumor has been put to rest in Clay County.
Someone starts em, we put em out. It’s quite simple, really…just time consuming.
This one centered around a supposed fight that happened between “two juveniles at the park in Louisville,” and the fight was so brutal that “one of them killed the other.” This purported “fight” was said to have occurred last night, Monday, May 20, 2013 some time before sundown.
We started hearing about it last night and all the way through to this morning, and it had some legs, I’m telling ya. So first thing today, we called up to Sheriff Jim Sulsburger’s office in Louisville. The sheriff wasn’t in, but their dispatcher, Pat, was gracious enough to look on the logs all the way back to yesterday, and advised us that there wasn’t even anything CLOSE to that having happened. No reports of juveniles, no reports of fights, no incidents in the park and particularly, no deaths whatsoever, by beating or otherwise.
Why all these rumors are emanating out of Clay is one of those mysteries of the ages, but apparently, someone is starting them deliberately and making sure they get to us. We received information on this particular story from no less than SIX people either emailing, messaging on Facebook, texting or calling since about 7 last night. But—
THERE’S NOTHING TO IT.
And we wouldn’t blame Ms. Pat if she’s getting tired of us calling to ask about the latest crazy thing that’s supposedly gone down in Clay. The shooting at The Ridge was the last REAL thing that happened. Everything else since then—including Robert Sherman going crazy and killing people—was complete fabrication. Maybe we’ll find out who’s fabricating. In the meantime, we’ll continue to track the stories down as they come in, which should show our haters that yes indeed, we DO “check things out” before posting/printing, and sometimes the public officials get things wrong when they relay info to us, but stuff of this nature, no, not usually. It takes a while to reach a PO sometimes, and even longer sometimes to get correct info back, so there may be time delays at times, while at other times, stuff gets to us right quick (as in the case of some POs whose cell phone numbers we have, and they can and do text). So you never know…that’s why you have to keep up with us here….click often…!