Downtown Nashville went OFF this weekend.
With the nice weather (and by that I mean it was hot as hell and the humidity was so high that it was like walking into a sauna), no more COVID restrictions, and people taking their summer vacations, Broadway is as busy as it’s ever been.
Add to that a rodeo taking place at Bridgestone Arena and the Nashville Opera hosting a performance of “Cinderella” at Ascend Amphitheater (because hey, we’re cultured here), and you’ve got a recipe for shit to pop off.
I even ventured down there myself for a couple of hours this weekend with some friends and man, it was as crazy as I’ve seen it in my 5 years in Nashville.
From fights to people passed out in bushes to 911 calls about cyber attacks, the police scanner was buzzing all weekend.
A few weeks ago we recapped the best of the scanner traffic from the first weekend that Nashville fully reopened, but it seems like the action isn’t slowing down so I figured, why not make this a recurring series.
With that, let’s get into the wild weekend.
Friday Night
People seemed to be on their best behavior heading into the weekend as things got off to a slow start on Friday. Until…
metro police unit needs an ambulance at 411 broadway, downtown sporting club, for a 40 year old female passed out in the bathroom; and now… it's the weekend… folks had been pretty restrained so far today…
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 11, 2021
Once people start passing out in the bathroom of the bar, it’s on.
Miranda Lambert’s new bar, Casa Rosa, quickly got in on the action with a fight that resulted in an arrest – and we were quickly marking off squares on the Broadway Bingo card.
and now a transport car needed quickly for an arrest, mentioned at whiskey bent, right next door… well with that we've popped Miranda's Broadway bingo cherry, and marked off another square in short order… pic.twitter.com/Ng0i3FY4m1
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 12, 2021
And this guy must have been fired up, because officers requested even more backup once they got him to down to the jail.
metro police units indicating they'll need two officers to get this arrest subject in to booking…from the 308 broadway casa rosa arrest
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 12, 2021
What are they putting in those margs at Casa Rosa?
Then we got one of the more interesting calls of the weekend: A woman calling police and rambling about cyber attacks in nearby Clarksville.
metro police have a 911 hang up call from Broadway place and rep john lewis way, female rambling on about cyber attacks in the Montgomery county Clarksville area, keeps hanging up, officers will check it out…
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 12, 2021
Police were never able to locate the caller – but with all the cyber attacks going on lately, maybe she knew something we don’t?
Next we ventured a little off Broadway to the Hampton Social, a restaurant downtown popular with bachelorette parties for its giant “Rosé all day” sign in the lobby that’s a popular spot for group Instagram pics.
But apparently somebody had a little TOO much rosé…
metro fire going to 201 1st Ave S, at the The Hampton Social restaurant, for an unconscious patient
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 12, 2021
The next offender on our Broadway Bingo card came from a frequent source of action: Kid Rock’s.
metro police unit needs an ambulance for a 35 year old intoxicated female vomiting in front of 221 broadway, kid rock… and there we go with another bingo square… pic.twitter.com/NGpQW29JVJ
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 12, 2021
Vomiting in the streets at 9 PM? Bob Ritchie would be disappointed.
Oh, and while somebody was losing their hot chicken out front on the sidewalk, the fire alarm was also going off at Kid Rock’s.
and while we're at it, metro fire now going to 221 broadway, kid rock, for a commercial fire alarm activation…
METRO FIRE
FFD210611064431
06/11/2021 09:19:35 PM
ALARMCOM
37201
DS09, EN02, TR09https://t.co/SyMqSHujo5— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 12, 2021
A little while later we had somebody make a decision that usually doesn’t end well: Fighting with the police.
metro police needs more units at 1st and KVB, report of officers involved in a fight
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 12, 2021
Spoiler alert: It didn’t end well.
units have one subject in custody, need a transport car for an arrest, need an ambulance for injuries from an assault
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 12, 2021
And what’s almost as stupid as fighting with the police? Fighting with a paramedic who’s trying to give you medical attention.
metro police units out at second and broadway, has somebody fighting with the medics
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 12, 2021
Meanwhile, the party on Broadway was so big that the sidewalks almost couldn’t handle the crowd.
and almost two minutes of the pedestrians hoard crossing 4th and broadway as of 9:30 PM… almost too many folks going to the honky tonk central corner to get off the street… pic.twitter.com/552MCbR3Hu
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 12, 2021
As if things weren’t already wild enough, next up was a fight at Tootsie’s that broke a window out of the front of the bar.
units need a transport car for an arrest, all are currently busy, checking to see if central has a car that can help; and with that fight we can mark off tootsie's orchid lounge for another square on broadway bingo… pic.twitter.com/yP3UOVPK7g
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 12, 2021
People were getting feisty as the night wore on: At one point there were five active calls for fights in the downtown area.
five different fight calls now on metro police active dispatch, all in the central downtown and lower broadway area…https://t.co/eHhD4gXEo3 pic.twitter.com/oyk6jLuwXg
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 12, 2021
We ended Friday night with one last call to Jason Aldean’s – for a hole outside that people kept falling in.
And that was just Friday.
Saturday Night
The first call of the evening on Saturday came from FGL House.
metro fire going to 120 3rd ave s at the FGL house, for a sick person call
METRO FIRE
FFD210612064830
06/12/2021 05:48:00 PM
SICK
37201
EN09, MED21https://t.co/SyMqSHujo5— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 12, 2021
Sounds like somebody’s been listening to FGL’s music.
There was a wreck on Broadway when a jacked up truck with a tour group full of tourists took out the front end of a car.
3 car pileup #nashville pic.twitter.com/VHtko7jNxm
— Michael Ray Nott (@MichaelRayNott) June 12, 2021
And a guy who got his foot run over by a car.
initially said he was attacked, now reported that this male was struck by a vehicle, may have broke his foot, caller not being cooperative
METRO FIRE
FFD210612064857
06/12/2021 07:01:13 PM
MVAPED
37201
FST09, MED09https://t.co/SyMqSHujo5— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
Pic of the scene pic.twitter.com/aPgufzef16
— Sarah Brownell (@brow0787) June 13, 2021
Would now be a good time to say that maybe the city should think about just closing Broadway to vehicles on weekends?
Once again on Saturday, we had people passing out in the bathrooms of bars.
metro police have a report of a female passed out in the bathroom of honky tonk central, 329 broadway
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
And…this.
metro police unit needs help in front of ole red, for a homeless individual, cant keep his pants up, needs to be moved on, to somewhere…
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
But the biggest scene of the weekend came when Metro Nashville Police encountered a guy walking around with a knife.
metro police unit near Bridgestone has somebody with a knife, unit needs backup, in front of nudies honky tonk
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
And tazed his ass.
taser deployment
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
The horse units got involved.
Horse Patrol #nashville pic.twitter.com/kRmpfhyosd
— Michael Ray Nott (@MichaelRayNott) June 13, 2021
Save a horse, take a ride to jail.
Getting rowdy down on Broadway.
That tourist trap is probably what my hell will look like. https://t.co/if3Ub3oiia
— Erin V. (@erininnashville) June 13, 2021
Same.
Honky Tonk Central seemed to see a lot of action this weekend, because a little while later we had a medical call from their stairwell.
metro police unit needs an ambulance at honky tonk central, 329 broadway, for a medical call in the stair well
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
Then Luke Bryan’s 32 Bridge and Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row both wanted to get in on the action too.
metro police unit needs an ambulance for a female with a cut on her head, in front of 400 Broadway, Dierks Bentley Whiskey Row; and we needed that Broadway bingo square… pic.twitter.com/dxQlmCdZdi
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
metro fire going to 301 Broadway, Luke Bryan's 32 Bridge, for an unconscious patient; that location did not make this weekends bingo card
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
There were even calls from the boot stores. Somebody who just got a brand new pair of cowboy boots and then quickly realized they couldn’t walk in them when they were shitfaced?
metro fire going to 320 Broadway, at the boot barn, for injuries from a fall; not a bingo honky tonk square
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
There was a big scuffle in the intersection outside of Dierks Bentley’s and Margaritaville.
Honky Tonkin’ on Broadway. @ScanNashville pic.twitter.com/MFgyhaBhXO
— Roger Fregoso (@bigdaddyrog74) June 13, 2021
It was at this moment memaw knew she fucked up coming to Nashville. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/Q4myIMQUKG
— JRO (@Nash_Rogers615) June 13, 2021
And with traffic backing up on Broadway as the opera and the rodeo let out, one officer was asking the important questions:
metro police unit "i'm going to be the first to ask the curiosity question, why is there an 18 wheeler on Broadway?"
some 18 wheelers coming out of Ascend Amphitheatre, have no other way to exit, going west on broadway…https://t.co/N3QjTUQgrk pic.twitter.com/LtKjrBMKZ7
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
(Turns out they were leaving Ascend Amphitheater and didn’t have any other way to get out. What a terrible time to have to try to drive a big rig down Broadway).
There was also this exchange about the traffic, from what was definitely an officer working his first weekend shift on Broadway.
Love the officer on the Nashville police scanner asking why there’s so much traffic and another officer coming back with “That was definitely a new guy question.” @ScanNashville
— Aaron (@_AaronRyan) June 13, 2021
There was a fight at the usually-well-behaved Alan Jackson’s Good Time Bar.
metro police unit has a fight report at AJ's good time bar, 421 broadway; well take the bingo square on that one; at least a few ways to win by one more square now… pic.twitter.com/sEG508JCat
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
But the party wasn’t just heating up on Broadway. The Wild Beaver Saloon, located one street over, also got in on the action.
metro fire going to 212 commerce at the wild beaver saloon, small female white, wearing leopard tube top and shorts, extremely under the influence, outside the bar
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
If I could sum up Nashville in one tweet, it would be that one.
We then got our second knife call of the evening.
general broadcast to downtown units, central running emergency to Hampton Inn & Suites Nashville-Downtown, 4th Avenue South, Nashville, TN, report of a person with a kitchen knife walking up and down the street
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
And yet another fight and arrest, this time at Tin Roof.
unit had a suspect in custody, needs a transport car; and we have another square and another way to win broadway bingo this weekend as we approach midnight… pic.twitter.com/iRJPJaCdNg
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
And an unspecified arrest in the alley behind the Valentine.
unit needs a transport car for an arrest in the alley behind the valentine
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
By this point it was after midnight, and people just started passing out wherever they could find a soft place to lay.
Like the bushes.
metro police unit has a report of a female laying in the bushes, heavily intoxicated, commerce st near 3rd ave
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
metro fire going to 3rd ave north and union st, a male white… in the bushes, may be under the influence
METRO FIRE
FFD210613065008
06/13/2021 01:14:12 AM
UNCONS
37201
EN09, MED05https://t.co/SyMqSHujo5— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
Police also finally decided to shut down Broadway to vehicle traffic around midnight. Probably a good idea at this point.
metro police units have shut down lower Broadway to vehicle traffic…all traffic is being kept from entering Broadway…https://t.co/N3QjTUQgrk pic.twitter.com/NvbYJbusNd
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
Because people were getting rowdy up and down the sidewalks.
it's fight night on lower Broadway tonight in downtown Nashville Tennessee…https://t.co/eHhD4gXEo3 pic.twitter.com/5aJPBdYUmW
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
Just a ton of fights.
metro police unit has a fight at honky tonk central, needs a transport car for an arrest
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
metro police unit has a fight at 306 broadway, whiskey bent saloon
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
There was also a poor pizza delivery driver who had his car stolen from the Hampton Inn downtown.
metro police have report of a pizza delivery driver car stolen from 310 4th ave
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
As if having to deliver pizzas in all this mess isn’t bad enough…
And we ended the night (and one wild weekend) with a burglary alarm going off at either Jack’s BBQ or Robert’s Western World.
METRO POLICE
71A
NON-RESIDENCE-BURGLARY ALARM
06/13/2021 01:27:12 AM
416 BROADWAY
CENTRALthis address is shared by Jack's Bar-B-Que and Robert's Western World
we're gonna call it, a broadway honky tonk bingo…https://t.co/eHhD4gXEo3 pic.twitter.com/azBTsfSUX3
— Nashville Scanner (@ScanNashville) June 13, 2021
Jeez. What was the deal this weekend, Nashville?
Maybe it’s because it was hot as balls and everybody was just sweaty and fired up. Or maybe it’s still the high of finally going out for the first time post-COVID.
Whatever it was, visitors to Music City had themselves one hell of a weekend.
It’s gonna be a long summer.
welcome to nashville where there’s a knife wielding man, boots sitting in vomit, and a Stetson hat box on top of a trash can, which is also covered vomit @ScanNashville #Nashville @JohnCooper4Nash safe and clean! pic.twitter.com/ACbvXUiEnk
— courtney 🐝 (@courtie_mcc) June 13, 2021