I'm remind of the famous words immortalized in song by the legendary Jerry Reed:

Ol' Smokey's got them ears on and he's hot on your trail.
He aint gonna rest 'til you're in jail.
So you got to dodge 'im and you got to duck 'im,
you got to keep that diesel truckin'.
Just put that hammer down and give it hell.

Those words couldn't ring any truer than today in Tennessee.  The state police have begun a new “cigarette surveillance program” to intercept people who bring illegal quantities of cigarettes across the state border.  The police have agents who are positioned and performing surveillance on out-of-state stores that sell cigarettes near the border.  And now you're asking yourself just how much is considered illegal?  Well, bring in over 2 cartons of your favorite cigarettes and receive up to 6 months in jail and/or a $500 fine – not to mention getting your car seized!  Push the limits up to 25 cartons and you've just committed a felony.  That's right!  You've earned the right to spend up to 6 years in prison and a fine of up to $3000.  From Knoxnews.com:

Tennessee’s cigarette tax went from 20 cents per pack to 62 cents per pack effective July 1. All eight states that border Tennessee have lower tax rates, meaning smokers can save up to 45 cents per pack — $4.50 for a 10-pack carton — by purchasing out of state.

The border states with the lowest cigarette taxes are Missouri with 17 cents and Mississippi at 18 cents. The highest is Arkansas with 59 cents.

Kentucky and Virginia both tax cigarettes at 30 cents a pack, North Carolina at 35 cents, Georgia at 37 cents and Alabama at 42.5 cents.

Virgil Lentilbent of Reamed Creek, Ark. died in his trailer yesterday. He was 87.

Lentilbent, who worked as a custodian at the local Greyhound bus station for 42 years, had claimed to be the first person to coin the racial epithet "There's black people, and then there's niggers".

"He was awful proud of it [the phrase]," said his wife, Flossie. "That'd be purt near the first thing outta his mouth when he met a stranger. 'Name's Virg', he'd say, 'I'm that guy what first said there's black people and then there's niggers.'"

While there can be no actual proof that Lentilbent was in fact the first person to utter the phrase, a study at Colgate University's sociology department has shown that well over 2,000,000 people in the United States alone have claimed authorship of it. "We actually have a party for the whole department about every eight months or so to celebrate each ten thousandth person who claims to have invented the phrase," said Everett Sheffield, who is black and founded the study. "We're consistently amazed at how the people who champion white supremacy are always the worst examples of it. It'd be almost cute if it's roots weren't so steeped in bloodshed."

But not everyone agrees.

"A man of great wit and articulation has been called home to God", said Toby Roy Kilgore, host of a morning call-in show on Reamed Creek's AM radio WKKK and a lifelong friend of Lentilbent's. "And I doubt there's be a monument or even a plaque to commemorate his contribution to humanity. It's a goddamn disgrace."

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This kid in Russia rode the wing of a Boeing-737 plane for over 2 hours at 560mph.  He suffered some frostbite, but talk about a great story to tell people at the bar when he's older:

However, Moscow's air and water transport control department said the radio's claim was true. A department spokesman said the incident occurred on Friday, and that the boy's parents were immediately informed, and flew to the capital the same day.

Doctors said it was nothing short of a miracle that Andrei survived the flight, with temperatures hitting minus 50 degrees Celsius (-58 Fahrenheit), the radio station said. The Boeing-737 has a cruising speed of 900 kmh (560 mph).

The boy reportedly made the journey after a commonplace domestic dispute. Angry with his father, who reportedly has a drinking problem, and with his mother for siding with her husband in family rows, Andrei ran away to the neighboring village, where his grandmother lives. On reaching the village, he decided to go on, and hitched a 220-km (137-mile) ride to the regional center, Perm, where he was dropped off at the airport.