NASHVILLE, Tenn. WSMV is reporting this news story and it makes complete sense as to why this man was “moving” this Jack Daniel’s barrel.
This man was arrested after witnesses actually watched him take piece of equipment from a construction site located in downtown Nashville, and then he proceeded to use it to remove some decorations from outside Bridgestone Arena.
Metro Nashville Police Officers were called to the Division Street Bridge early Tuesday morning and spoke with 47-year-old Donald Bilby. A witness told officers that Bilby took a Kubata SVL 75-2 skid steer from a construction site on 8th Street North and drove it over Bridgestone Arena, where he loaded a Jack Daniel’s barrel onto the machine and drove away, according to an arrest affidavit.
The general contractor told officers that Bilby entered the construction area by “pulling down a fence,” before he drove off with the skid steer, according to the affidavit.
Now Bilby told officers that he found the machine in the street with the keys in it and he “assumed they wanted it moved,” according to the officers’ report. Finders are keepers apparently in Bilby’s world.
When the officers found Bilby “working”, he was unloading the large whiskey barrel with a Nashville Predators logo off the skid steer, they reported.
Bilby was arrested and charged with felony burglary, vehicle theft, property theft, and vandalism. The skid steer is valued at approximately $68,000, but the value of the damaged fence, or the Jack Daniel’s barrel is unknown at this point.
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