Things must be awefully desparate at the Tennessean for them to have hired someone to drive around my neighborhood this morning littering people’s yards with bags full of commercial garbage.

Don’t take this wrong way. I love the Tennessean. I like what they are doing online, and I think there is a lot on potential on the horizon as the Tennessean gets out of the business of delivering newspapers and focuses on delivering news and information electronically. If you haven’t seen their newer website, go check it out.

But the dying gasps of their industrial-aged print distribution has now crossed the line with me. All up and down my neighborhood street this morning were yards littered with pink plastic bags labeled “Yes! Your Essential Shopper” filled with a newspaper sized packet of nothing but advertisements and solicitations to subscribe to the Tennessean’s print product.

Before I take action this morning, I have some advice for whoever’s bright idea this was.

Stop it. I’m not asking. I’m telling you to stop it.

What other company in this area has the thuggish moxie to drive around our neighborhoods and toss unsolicited bagged up trash on our lawns? What kind of return do you expect for such abusive behavior?

If I knew I would not have diverted a police officer this morning from saving someone’s life, I would have called the police and have a report written up and go from there. Instead, I went to the Better Business Bureau website and filed this complaint there and listed as many advertisers as I could who hired the Tennessean to litter my lawn. After I mow the lawn, I’ll send that link to as many corporate offices of the advertisers as I can.

I know the Tennessean has to pay the bills, but this is where I draw the line as a consumer who is now a victim of a desparate company who has chosen to litter my property as a means to make money.