Jason Sandford
Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.
WLOSers really sexed up the news on Tuesday. Let’s have a look:
More drugs and dildos
Resident WLOS sex reporter Michelle Boudin stayed on top of the dildo (long pause) and drugs story Tuesday by giving us a little more detail about the Madison County dude busted yesterday.
As you’ll recall, cops responded to a complaint about somebody setting off firecrackers in the neighborhood, spotted some pot on the dude’s kitchen table and got a warrant to search the place. In that process, they turned up $178,000 in cash, a load of weed, peyote, marijuana-laced brownies and Ecstasy and some drug similar to LSD, as well as some 300 glass dildos. A veritable glass menagerie of manhood. Of course, Michelle never actually used the word “dildo.” Her code was: “glass sex toys.” But don’t forget you can always get male sex toys as well!
It turned out that the suspect was quite a glassblower, according to Sheriff John Ledford. The dude started by making glass pipes, the kind you find for sale at Smilefest. Then a couple of women asked him to make dildos, according to the sheriff, and he obliged. He found out he could make a tidy profit off the replica rods, so he started up his own business. Check out Glassex.net to get a taste. (Not the safest link for work.)
Boudin made sure to stress that the dildos were totally legal, totally fine. We agree. In fact, we’re going to take a moment to start writing our own business plan, because we sense a void that needs filling. A business void, people! Get your minds out the gutter. Besides, sex sells. Dildos, sex toys, pornography, it’s all big business these days. Just take a look at the cam girls on LiveJasmin; those sites are making some serious money – www.livejasminnederlands.com interessante feiten.
Sex book for 4-year-olds: good or bad?
John “Punnyman” Le tried to manufacture some local controversy about a new book called “It’s Not the Stork.” It’s aimed at pre-schoolers, and it gives them all the info about how mommy and daddy make babies.
The book is the latest in a series of a books by author Robie Harris that indeed have been controversial, but there’s no reason to go out and manufacture it all. Yet that’s exactly what Le did.
He found a couple of moms who said, “Oh, no. That’s inappropriate.” He also found some sort of child pyschologist who said the more good information a child can have, the better.
Harris had a recent best-seller, “It’s Perfectly Normal,” geared toward 10-year-olds. She also penned “It’s So Amazing,” targeting 7-year-olds. One story on the ‘net said that despite it’s best-seller status, “It’s Perfectly Normal” was on the American Library Association’s list of most frequently challenged books last year because of its open references to masturbation, contraception, and homosexuality.
Flasher spotted
The other story WLOSers hyped was one covered by Cherub Charu, who said that a mom at the Forest at Biltmore Park Apartments was circulating a letter warning other parents to be on the look-out for a flasher.
The mom said a guy walked out of some woods, opened his coat in front of her little girl and started moving his hand “in an up-and-down motion” over his crotch. No genitalia was spotted, according to Charu, so the cops can’t charge the guy with anything. But they still want to find the guy.
Military recruiters in school
In the most interesting story of the night, WLOSers said Haywood County school administrators recently passed new rules that allow parents to opt out of releasing phone numbers to military recruiters. We wanted much more detail on this. Right now, federal law requires school systems to fork over contact information. But apparently you can opt out of that. In Haywood County, at least, forms will be going home with students the first week of school.
In other news…
Interstate 40 westbound near Highway 25 was closed for a couple of hours after a truck overturned… The Maggie Valley Citgo was robbed… And a meth lab in Candler was busted.
