Austin’s Daily Commentary – August 9, 2023

Austin: [00:00:00] Police say additional charges are very likely to come as they continue to investigate that large, chaotic caught on video brawl at the Riverfront Dock in Montgomery, Alabama. It's captivated people all over the world.

The incident began as a dispute over a dockside parking spot at a Riverview Park Riverfront Park, rather, that led to the co-captain of the riverboat being attacked by a group that had parked their pontoon in the riverboat's spot. It was a bunch of drunk rednecks that wouldn't move their cotton pickin boat. A guy comes out from the riverboat after spending a half hour trying to get them to move via the P.A. system. "Move your boat. Your your boat is in the wrong spot. Please move." Again. 30 minutes of that at least. And these rednecks just sitting there and ignoring it.

Now, a lot of folks want to describe the brawl that took place after that initial confrontation as some kind of race war. And I don't like to think of it that way. Number one, no one that I heard said anything concerning race. It was a bunch of drunk rednecks on a pontoon boat. Have you ever been around a group like that? They fight with each other, they fight with fish, they fight with birds. They'll most definitely fight with the crew of a riverboat, wanting them to move because they're obstinate, stupid people. Racist? I don't know if race has anything to do with it because trust me, most of the time rednecks on pontoons fight against other rednecks in pontoons. That's just the way lake life goes.

In the meantime, it's great video. People have been staging their own versions of it. I look at it as like Civil War reenactments, a lot of fun, no harm done, getting a lot of mileage out of it. But was this an epic civil rights battle or again, an episode of The Three Stooges gone awry at the riverfront? I'm beginning to think Curly, Larry and Moe have nothing on those drunk rednecks who, by the way, are all going to be charged and all going to jail for what they did, sued in federal court over hate crimes. That's taking it a bit far. But hey, stupid is stupid does. And that's the comment, I'm Austin Rhodes. AM 580/95.1 FM News Talk WGAC. [00:00:00][0.0]