This was the first episode in a new A&E series detailing the life and times of the Sheriff and deputies in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, located just west of New Orleans. This episode began with the case of Deputy ‘Highlights’ Thibodaux investigating a case where a guy stole someone else’s air conditioner. It turns out that the air conditioner was taken in retribution for the person having an affair with the alleged thief’s woman. Now, women come and go, but air conditioners are forever, at least down here. You know, Froze before Hoes.
We then move to Chauvin, where Deputies Catfish Quintal and Keith Bergeron looked into a voodoo incident. It turns out that a citizen reported an unexplained light coming from a storage shed. When they investigated, the deputies found voodoo paraphernalia throughout the shed. The wary professionals quickly dispersed.
Now, for some of you, the idea of voodoo may seem to be hooey. But I’m willing to guess that your home town doesn’t have Voodoo Shoppes; that’s right, stores dedicated to the development or removal of curses.
These two incidents were mere preludes to the main event. Sheriff Vernon Bourgeois and his SWAT (?) team apprehended a known drug dealer, Jesse James. They got him in about a second, since he tried to run away by fleeing into the bayou. They then apprehended his pet alligator. That’s right, guys. Your bad guys have pet pit bulls; ours have pet gators. Who do you think will win that fight? Then, the lawe enforcement officials scored all of his toys.
The episode concluded with the sheriff driving off in his Maserati, one of the toys from a previous drug bust. The program airs on Thursday nights at 9:00 Louisiana time on A&E.
Here is the profile of Deputy Melissa ‘Catfish’ Quintal:
June 8th, 2012 at 5:32 am
Too bad they did not coordinate the premier episode with busting the pest exterminator guy on A&E.
June 8th, 2012 at 9:08 am
This hokey hokum about Voo Doo isn’t restricted to just the backwaters of Bayou Country.
You won’t m find a store in New Orleans, weather a ‘Mom & Pop’ grocery or a major supermarket chain, hardware store or Wal-Mart, that doesn’t have a section devoted to Voo Doo/Santaria paraphernalia.
Not only candles in tall ornately painted glasses, but a wide array of large aerosol cans filled with ‘Good Money’ spray, “Love & Harmony’ spray and ‘Peace With Acquaintance ‘ spray.
Years ago, I put an ad in the paper to give away the last of a litter of kittens. A woman called and fairly grilled me about ‘ was i sure it was a white kitten ?’.
She finally said she would be right over, on the street car. She promptly showed up. All 6 feet of her w/ Dreads. She told me her son was on the way, on his bicycle, because she wouldn’t be allowed on the street car with the kitten. The 10 year old boy was High Yellow with the bluest eyes I have ever seen. He was at least 6′ 2″ on a kiddie bike with a basket.
After they left with the kitten, I got to thinking about it and was most worried about the fate of the animal. This woman had the dead on seriousness of some sort of Born Again Bible Freak. No small talk. No Jive. Just a deadly serious obsession with weather the cat was all white or perhaps tainted with a spot or two of color.
I’ll put Bayou Country Louisiana up against the deepest darkest hollers of Appalachia for downright skin crawlin’ creepiness.
June 8th, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Froze before Hoes! Reminds me of Michelle “Catfish” Obama going down on the president.