We could make this post all about the murder rate in Baton Rouge, but that’s hardly news. Or the fact that the Baton Rouge Police Department seems to only rarely catch murderers unless they make themselves obvious. Or that property crime is utterly endemic all over the city.

We could go through lots of categories of activity which make it obvious that this is a city out of control.

But this might be the best way to show you how totally lawless a place Baton Rouge is. Because over the weekend the Street Demons, a car club which specializes in some of the most aggressively stupid and dangerous activity imaginable, decided to make themselves a thing again.

And what came out of that was really incredible.

So lighting gasoline to make a fiery ring in a shopping center parking lot is kinda cool, though it’s not exactly what we’d say is justifiable risk-taking. Especially given that there was a gas station in that parking lot and where the ring of fire was set up was perilously close to the gas pumps. That’s a sub-100 IQ at work and all kinds of bad things could have happened as a result.

But what’s even more aggressively stupid is the amazingly brazen move of blocking I-10 at the Bluebonnet exit in the middle of the night so you can film yourself doing donuts on an interstate.

Wow. Just wow.

How there weren’t buses pulling up with a police SWAT team in full riot gear to haul away everybody associated with that moronic stunt, and the Street Demons put to bed for good as a result, is beyond us.

But then again we’re still operating under the assumption that this is a city which acts to promote law and order. And Baton Rouge is not that. This is a lawless place. This is the Wild West, where you can get shot with a stray bullet through your window and you can be trapped on the interstate because the gang-bangers have decided they need the roadway to do donuts on.

Just remember, Baton Rouge – you voted for this. Don’t get mad that your choices have led to a logical conclusion.