WINKLER COUNTY, Texas — The top seated official in the least populated county in the state of Texas was arrested Friday. Loving County Judge Skeet Jones is accused of livestock theft and organized criminal activity.
A special ranger with the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association confirmed Judge Jones and three others, including a county employee, are accused of picking up estray cattle and selling them.
Cattle owners: maintain your fuckin' fences. And carry at least one firearm whenever (or, especially) when you are in your pastures. Judge: fuck you! The owners should have shot you on sight.
In the years I was running my family's ranch I can't count how many times I had to call neighboring ranchers to tell them their cattle or horses were on our property. Most of the time I had to gather and corral them before they came to get them or even drive them back onto the property they came from before I fixed the fence their cattle had come through.
The number of times any of my neighbors extended that same courtesy to me? That would be zero. It's one reason I'm glad I'm too old to run the place anymore. It gets old.
Judge ought to realize Roy Bean comes along once, and he ain't him.
ReplyDeleteThe parking violations were simply plea bargaining. I don't see problem.
ReplyDeleteI guess he doesn't like free grazers.
ReplyDeleteEstray cattle?
ReplyDeleteMusta been from over the border...
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I was going to say he writes with an accent.
DeleteCattle owners: maintain your fuckin' fences. And carry at least one firearm whenever (or, especially) when you are in your pastures. Judge: fuck you! The owners should have shot you on sight.
ReplyDeleteIn the years I was running my family's ranch I can't count how many times I had to call neighboring ranchers to tell them their cattle or horses were on our property. Most of the time I had to gather and corral them before they came to get them or even drive them back onto the property they came from before I fixed the fence their cattle had come through.
DeleteThe number of times any of my neighbors extended that same courtesy to me? That would be zero. It's one reason I'm glad I'm too old to run the place anymore. It gets old.
Don't they still hang cattle rustlers in Texas? If they don't, they should!
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