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Let me just say that carrying a shotgun (unloaded, of course) through a crowded, public place was the least eventful moment of an interesting day recently.

If you remember, I recently donned a mustache to a bachelor party. Well, the bachelor's wedding was June 30.

No mustaches, but plenty of mayhem.

Not for the bride and groom, though (at least that I know of). Just personal mayhem.

Friday could have been just another speech for Lebanon Mayor Gary Crenshaw. As any rural official knows, part of the job is addressing various community groups from time to time.

If he had just presented a recap of the budget recently approved by the Lebanon City Council, he would have been fulfilling expectations.

Instead, Crenshaw spoke a little less about the budget so he would have time to discuss an old problem for Lebanon - drugs.

By Paige Wilson

I felt another plump droplet of sweat race down the side of my face and plummet into the abyss below me, wishing I could escape this situation with the same effortless motion - but perhaps not with the same end result.

I was buckled into a strappy harness, helmeted and connected to a lean metal cable by foreign ropes and knots. Somehow I was expected to leap across a gap of open air - 40 feet above the unforgiving Alabama turf - relying on these contraptions as my safeguards against painful consequences.