archenemy blog

In Arkansas:

The time-consuming and methodical motion of searching for arrowheads on farmland and in riverbeds seems to appeal to methamphetamine addicts, a sheriff says.

White County Sheriff Pat Garrett said that after more than 100 search warrants, he has come to expect arrowheads, many thousands of years old, when he storms the home of suspected meth makers.

“I noticed it when I first started. It just seemed there were always Indian arrowheads, and I couldn’t figure it out,” Sheriff Garrett said.

Tony Young of Velvet Ridge said the sheriff is on to something.

“You get kind of wired on that stuff, and you need to have something to do,” said Mr. Young, who is in the White County jail awaiting trial on methamphetamine charges.

Mr. Young, 36, sold his arrowhead collection to a local dealer for $1,250 – enough to pay for a defense attorney. He said “head hunting” filled his need for activity when he was on meth.

“You just get to walking and looking at the ground,” Mr. Young said. “You get to looking, and an arrowhead catches your eye.”

Many nights Mr. Young found himself in fields full of fellow arrowhead hunters. Now he is in jail, surrounded by fellow inmates who say they also searched for arrowheads before they were incarcerated.

That’s what I think I need to undo the damage to my attention span that blog-reading has done - a good meth habit. I’ll finally be able to finish the books I’m currently reading in blog-post-length fits and starts.

Humorously, the article goes on to quote experts, who claim that wandering around and picking stuff up off the ground is an activity that should really be left to… experts.

Sigh.