"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:21:31 -0700, "Paul M. Cook" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Jeßus" > wrote in message
>>news
>>> On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:30:26 -0700, "Paul M. Cook" >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>"Jeßus" > wrote in message
>>>>news
>>>>> On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:46:46 -0700 (PDT),
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Saturday, September 14, 2013 1:42:39 PM UTC-7, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>>>>>> "George Leppla" > wrote in message
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > I'm not big into this stuff, but when you live in Texas, you have
>>>>>>> > to
>>>>>>> > smoke
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > at least 20 pounds of meat per person, per year or they fine you.
>>>>>>> > (Y'all
>>>>>>> > ain't from around here, are you boy?")
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And mandatory ho-down attendance.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Actually, my buddy who moved to Texas several years ago tells me
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> you
>>>>>>> are required to attend mega-churches and high school football games
>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>> you
>>>>>>> might as well be arrested.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>My Catholic buddy whose dad teaches at Texas Tech says in Lubbock they
>>>>>>assume
>>>>>>if you attend Catholic church you must be Mexican.
>>>>>
>>>>> I noticed recently that roadside blood tests are now law in Texas...
>>>>> nice!
>>>>
>>>>Texas has some of the most hard core police state laws ever anywhere in
>>>>this
>>>>country
>>>
>>> How about that Joe Arpao (sp) sheriff... what a wing-nut. Really
>>> disturbing that somebody like that seemingly has free reign to do
>>> whatever he wants... or whatever the prison industry tells him to do,
>>> at least.
>>>
>>>>and yet they pretend they are freedom lovers as long as any bozo,
>>>>crack head, mentally defective individual can pack heat.
>>>
>>> Depends if you literally mean mental defectives, or you just don't
>>> like the public owning firearms...
>>>
>>
>>I mean mentally defective people as in the medical definition. People
>>with
>>long records of mental illness can carry weapons in Texas.
>
> Fair enough...
>
>>Some years ago,
>>I think 15, a woman was sentenced to 144 years in prison. Why? She ran a
>>little business where she sold sex toys at private house parties. She was
>>stopped for a traffic violation and during the mandatory police search of
>>her vehicle (screw the Constitution this is Texas) they found 12
>>vibrators.
>>Texas law demands 12 years for each violation. Sex toys wedre and still
>>are
>>still illegal in Texas. The poor woman finally did prevail but only after
>>losing everything she had and having her life ruined by an aggressive
>>Texas
>>DA. So you can carry a deadly weapon even if you are insane but heaven
>>help
>>you if you are caught with a vibrator in Texas.
>>
>>Yee haw.
>
> I remember reading something about that, or at least I assume it was
> the same woman and her dildos.
Actually she was never sentenced. The DA had charged her with 12 counts of
possessing sex toys and since she was selling them he doubled down on the
charges for a theoretical maximum of 144 years. But the DA was pushing the
case to trial. She was put in jail as she could not post bail. Her lawyer
fees cost her house and all her possessions. When it was over she was
destitute and homeless. Had she been selling guns the same way, she'd never
have even gotten a ticket.