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Bawcomville Redneck Christmas Parade is a Success!
The first annual Bawcomville Redneck Christmas Parade left Riser Middle School’s parking lot promptly at noon Saturday as spectators lined Smith Street with great anticipation. Prior to the start of the parade, Jack Clampit of S&J Farm and Feed (aka Santa) arrived via helicopter to take his place at the rear of a surprisingly long line-up.
Since November 13, the number of participants ballooned from 10 to “an undetermined number”, event organizer Debbie Clampit said. “ Because so many people entered the parade today, I don’t know how many are participating.” If she had to put a number on it, she guessed “maybe 150”.
Participants included at least 2 dozen horses, a drove of motorcycles, high performance riding lawn mowers, hot rods, mud trucks, the National Guard, 18 wheelers, as well as large and small redneck floats
There was a musical float bearing a woman singing Christmas carols while playing the piano. Another float, pulled along by a tractor, was titled trailer trash, while another float, this one devised by Garrett Marsh ( of Tallulah, Louisiana) depicted a rednecks yard. It had an old junk car, a clothes line full of unmentionables, and even a redneck fireplace (a burn barrel) aboard. Even more impressive, and their proudest achievement of all was a “fully functioning, non-flushing out house”.
Many of the participants tossed candy, cups, stickers and toys to bright-eyed-waiting children as they passed. Clampit expressed her thanks and appreciation of those who have participated, and predicts an even larger turnout next year. It’s for this reason we’d like the sheriff’s department to give us a longer parade route next year”, she stated.
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Below: a very nicely decorated float
Below: Taking The Redneck Idea and running with it!
~having fun below~
Below: Leave it to rednecks!
Below: Bikers were biking... lots of them
Below: Trucks were haulin' or towing
Below: souped up riding lawn mowers were buzzing around!
Below: This group is from T-Town: Tallulah (that is) Garrett Marsh is the brains behind the operation. They all laughed while telling me they had a fully functioning out-house. This was a pretty cool bunch!
Below: This is "Great Pumpkin" owned by Randy Rhymes who also brought his brother's Mud truck, "Spider 7" also known as, "The Hulk" which is the picture below the orange truck.
These guys run the mud truck circuit, and look forward to the season getting cranked up in March.
"Spider 7, or The Hulk" I guess depending on the paint job. Either way, I think it's heroic.
That Hummer in the background belongs to FSE 528th engioneering bn, Monroe. They are National Guard members who wanted to participate.
"Spider 7, or The Hulk" I guess depending on the paint job. Either way, I think it's heroic.
That Hummer in the background belongs to FSE 528th engioneering bn, Monroe. They are National Guard members who wanted to participate.
2 comments:
Loved all the Pictures. Finally a parade worth going too. Look for us next year.. Yee-Haw..
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