Late Saturday Afternoon a partygoer decided to go off-roading in a new and unusual way… leading to our Fire Department being called out to take care of what appears to be a holiday partying and driving drunk gone extremely “off the rails.”

Witnesses on the scene said it looked like a soccer-mom had either had mixed too much Xanax with her wine or someone’s college child returned home for the holidays had one too many Jager Bombs before driving home.

Representatives from the Sheriff’s department refused to comment as this is still an ongoing investigation, however, Sheriff Silverfall still appears to be out of town and the Fire Chief, Kyle W. Forrester, was quoted as saying “No Comment.”

More details as they emerge, it appears the town’s wild horse population was not affected nor were there any signs of injured parties.  Our Department of Transportation’s Superintendant, Leroy Horten, was seen out confirming the rails are still safe for trolley service.  Trolley service has resumed from Cloudcroft to Bozeman this morning.  The hospital’s CEO and Head of Administration, Morrigan Horten, MD, says that due to Privacy Regulations she can not report if anyone was admitted to the hospital yesterday with injuries from a car accident, however she can report she had a peaceful night asleep, and that she was on call.

 

Morri here and I’m dropping all IC context for this post.  About 2-3 weeks ago while I was totally exhausted when Kyle W Forrester (our Fire Chief) says to me “Doc, I want to do a fundraiser for Toys for Tots.”  I had just gotten out of oral surgery IRL and was feeling pretty “not low” at the time and told him “Do I have to do any work for it” – I was burned out, had a bunch of rl things on my plate and was just mentally and physically exhausted.

 

Kyle told me “Nah, we got it all covered” and to his credit, he and Kira (His fiance and an amazing Hostess and all-around wonderful lady) did just that.

 

As I write this late on Dec 20, the total raised over this weekend is hovering over 112K Lindens and it may actually get higher than that.  The display is adorable and folks keep paying this kiosk.  (There’s still time to do so if you’d like to come down and contribute but missed the chance this weekend.) We’re all touched and there’s a good chance a few of us have torn through our box of kleenex each over the last two days.  From 10am Saturday and Sunday mornings to 10pm each… with it have some little 1 linden donations up to one particular individual donating 30K Lindens because it’s ‘the right thing to do’ to paraphrase.

Now Kyle likes to come across as abrasive and hard-nosed, but the reality is he is one of the kindest-hearted fellas you’ll ever come across.  Now as I type this – I can hear him telling me to hush and not ruin his reputation, but honestly, our community was really fortunate the day he went looking for a home for the Liberty Fire Department.

He and his lady are an amazing team, and we are thankful that they organized this.

Along the course of the weekend, new folks have found us, and an unexpected consequence was LC may have new citizens and has definitely made new friends.  We’re pretty happy about those too, but our overwhelming delight has been our little rustic town and saloon being able to make a positive difference.  The regions of Lincoln County and Montana North are all about positivity and having fun – because frankly if you don’t do that you are wasting time in Second Life.

Next year – we’ll do it all over again, and we’ll do it in the same place.  We’ll just start planning it earlier and seeking more sponsorships and prizes.  We want to thank everyone who’s donated or given their time – or even the amazing sponsorships – those prizes will be announced later when the winners are announced.

 

Merry Christmas, we’re so honored to have been able to do this and we will jump at the opportunity next year too.