Time to Pack It Up and Start Over: Balch Springs Has Discovered Uptown

DALLAS - An off-duty Balch Springs firefighter was arrested after a fight outside an Uptown bar early Tuesday morning. Two officers were in a parking lot in the 2500 block of McKinney Avenue, investigating an unrelated stabbing nearby, when they reported seeing Chase Crawford punch a bar employee twice in the face about 2:30 a.m.
Crawford, 24 and a Balch Springs firefighter since 2007, was pulled off the man by witnesses and held down by the officers, who later booked him into Dallas County jail on a charge of misdemeanor assault.

So I'm gone for a few days inhaling Corona's and Cubans on a Mexican beach like they have the cure for writer's block, and now the Meth-heads have invaded our precious McKinney Avenue like the Tobacco Superstore on a tax holiday. I never thought I'd see the day. There's a reason why drinks cost double, you have to valet, and the girls ignore you, Chase, because we don't want anyone from Hutchins to Sunnyvale arguing with the bartenders about not having Milwaukee's Best on tap or Tracy Lawrence on the speakers. This is what happens when you don't just go to Chili's for your birthday. People get hurt, and you're the one in the back of a squad car in beer-soaked jorts and a ripped Kurt Busch T-shirt.