Flomaton

Want to just say good afternoon to everyone on this football Friday.

Coming in now, the head coach of the Flomaton Hurricanes, Coach Jace Gandy.

Coach, good afternoon, and welcome to Coach's Comments.

All right, thanks for having me.

Coach, uh, you got an open date this week, uh, but let's talk about last week at Sweetwater.

Uh, the first possession, Flomaton gets a big run and a score.

Talk about that play.

Yeah, it was, uh, probably one of the wildest football games, scenarios I've ever been a part of.

"Is there a night freight from here to Mobile?" The question was directed to a young man about my own age who had just come out of a barber shop.

"No, but there's a midnight freight to Flomaton, Alabama, which is about halfway, I believe.

Going to hobo it?" "Yes, I may do so." "Then I'd advise you to be careful in this town, my friend.

You're likely to get a job making little rocks out of big ones.

There are twenty-two of 'em at it now, and a night cop at the depot waiting to catch others.

Now, the best thing you can do," he continued, "would be to walk from this town to Flomaton.

And if you're going on to New Orleans, you'd better walk through all of southern Mississippi to the state line of Louisiana, for if you're caught hoboing in Mississippi, you'll get eleven months and twenty-nine days in prison.

Upon being released, you're allowed one day to get out of the town, and upon failing to do so, you're again arrested and thrown into jail for a like term for vagrancy." Upon hearing this, I admit I was considerably frightened, but it would never do to give up in this manner, for the trip was hardly begun yet, and if I had heeded all the advice of this nature I had received since leaving Wilmington, the probabilities are I would not yet have reached Jacksonville.

It proved someone had learned the part.

In Flomaton, Alabama, social media accounts with names including Flomo Clown and ShootAClown sent threats to students.

Schools locked down.

More than thirty officers went to campus, and investigators worked with the FBI to trace the posts.