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Pontotoc Progress ©2007

Where: Pontotoc, MS
When: Jan-February of 2007 (unsure of exact date)

We don’t know why, nor do we know who attempted this. It happened on a Hwy 6 going into Lee County coming from Pontotoc County. Local police and law enforcement couldn’t determine anything about the attack other than it was an attack…wow!

The land in which the bridge and new highway was built on, was taken or acquired by the Mississippi highway department. I was even in a court case about the land acquisitions of the State Department taken some land from a guy who lives about a stones throw from the bridge.  Either way, it could have been somebody pissed off at the whole acquisition deal, or just a bunch of drunk rednecks. Either way…nobody knows.

All we know is they used an unknown explosive device. Evidence was sent off to a crime lab, but absolutely no information on the results have been reported. To see a high resolution picture click here .

There was a small article that ran in the Pontotoc Progress about this event, but no real details was given other than what you read here.

UPDATE
On Wednesday the 7th of March the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) repaired the bridge going into Tupelo. It looks as if it never happened.