The LawDog Files.

LawDog · April 19, 2001, 03:23 PM

There I was: book in paw, a comfy chair, a huge mug of tea and good music in the CD. Two quiet days off tend to be a rarity in small departments -- especially if you happen to be the only single officer in the department. I intended to enjoy that weekend to the fullest.

*ring, ring*

I don't want to answer the phone, I am not here, I died and..."Hello."

"Boy, the Shamu Squad are turning some jerk in a pink car loose 'bout 12 miles west of town. He's been speeding since California, and I want you to get out there and slow him down afore he hits town."

*sigh*

Small towns. We only had one radar unit in the department and it was installed in the night deputies cruiser to keep him awake during the wee hours of the morning. Guess who was the night deputy?

Being used to situations like this, I customarily kept a denim vest with a badge stuck to it hanging on a chair by the front door along with a shoulder holster holding a pistol, reload and a pair of cuffs. Mind busily trying to plot where to intercept this guy, I dress on the bounce out to the car, start the cruiser, fire up the radar, hit US287 -- just in time to see the unit light up.

98 in a 45.

I whip a U-turn, catch up to the driver and get him pulled over.

Now, I admit at the time I looked fairly youngish, so I was pretty used to odd looks when I walked up on a car during a traffic stop.

I walk up to the drivers side, knock on the window and the man behind the wheel gives me a startled look. Matter-of-fact, he just looks at me through the glass for the longest time. Finally I rap on the glass again, make a winding motion with my hand and down goes the window.

"Sir, my name is Deputy ****. I'm with the *** County Sheriff's Office. The reason I stopped you is that I clocked your vehicle doing 98 in a marked 45MPH zone. Is there an emergency that I need to know about?"

He looks at me awhile, then says, "No, I'm just in a hurry to get back to Massachusetts."

"Ah," I respond, "May I see your drivers license, registration and proof of insurance please?"

He kind of frowns. "Are you an officer of the law?"

"Yes, sir. Deputy Sheriff."

He gives me this really wierd look, then digs out his info. I go back to the cruiser, and I see him with his head out the window, looking back at me and his eyebrows are kind of crawling up and down his forehead.
I write up the ticket and walk back up to the car.

"Sir, would you sign this here, please. Your signature is not a plea of guilty, it is merely a promise to appear in court."

He looks down at the ticket, and back up at me and says, "Are you sure you're a cop?"

*sigh*

I pointed at the badge: "I've got a badge," I open the vest, "I've got a gun," other side of the vest, "I've got handcuffs, and I can show you the jail, if you'd like."

"No, no, sir, that'll be alright." He scibbles his name on the ticket, and I hand him his documents and the courtesy letter, and wish him a safe trip.

It takes him a while to finally put the car in 'D' and leave, and I follow him to the city limits to make sure he keeps it to a reasonable speed.

I guess as soon as I was out of sight, he crammed his foot into the gas tank and took off again. Anyhoo, he hits my Mom's hometown of Electra, and the Electra cops aren't fooling around: they snatch him up and take him directly before the judge to plea his case.

He gets done paying the fine, and goes to the Dairy Queen there in Electra, whereupon he begins airing his gripes to the world. The locals, being bored, listen sympathetically.

"What is it with the cops in Texas?" Everyone nods sagely, and refills his coffee cup.

"I mean, here they all look like they were cloned from the same mustache." Smiles and nods all around.

"I hit the Texas State line, and I got pulled over by a mustache with a pair of nunchuks hanging off his belt. (That would be Vega.)

"Little later, I get ticketed by a bleach blonde grandmother." (Sheriff in Armstrong County)

"But the absolute worst time," he sputtered, almost in tears, "Is X number of towns back where I got pulled over by a redheaded kid wearing a Sheriff's badge pinned to a BUGS BUNNY T-SHIRT!"

It was not a Bugs Bunny T-shirt. I emphatically deny owning a Bugs Bunny t-shirt.

It was a Tazmanian Devil t-shirt.

Well, how often do you think about what you're wearing on your day off?

Wait, the worst of it is yet to come.

Every person in the diner starts counting towns on their fingers...X towns back...red-headed kid...Sheriff's badge...everyone turns and looks at Mom, sitting in the back.

Who, of course, made it a point the next time she visited me, to tell the whole wretched story to a resturaunt full of gossips in my town.

I caught hell about the 'Bugs Bunny T-Shirt' for years after that.

LawDog

USP45 · April 19, 2001, 03:44 PM

Quote:

"No, I'm just in a hurry to get back to Massachusetts."

Are you sure he wasn't on crack?

I've had a few speeding tickets escaping Massachusetts; i've never gotten one coming back

Jim V · April 19, 2001, 03:47 PM

LD. your Mom has to have it in for you. LOL

mussi · April 19, 2001, 04:08 PM

Lawdog, how would you have reacted if he told you he put a nuclear
bomb into the San Andreas fault to make the Californian coast slide
into the sea? You'd still have written the ticket or you'd cheer him
if it really happened?

Drundel · April 19, 2001, 04:37 PM

How many tickets did he get in Texas? Damn I bet his insurance dropped his ass in a heart beat.

DorGunR · April 19, 2001, 04:50 PM

LawDog,
My Son was home from college this last weekend and coming
home from Church I was telling him about my collection of
LawDog stories especially the ones about Santa Claus and
the one about Bubba dancing on the pool table.......he said "Dad...I gotta have those tales" So I'm gonna put them on a disc and mail them to him. LawDog...you're gonna be famous around campus at Thomas Aquinas College. hehehehe

PJ11B3VF7 · April 19, 2001, 05:46 PM

LawDog, man my sides are splitting and my face hurts from so much laughter. I had to do a search and read the older LawDog files. You have to write a book. Heck, I'd buy 10 copies and send them to friends and family. I gotta see your town

Gopher · April 19, 2001, 06:07 PM

Almost time for another disk

The Lawdog files are much bigger than the FUBAR files. More please........(private joke from another board)

Mouth of Sauron · April 19, 2001, 06:10 PM

He must of been trying to get through Arizona and Texas real fast for the 'safety' of the north east, before he was accidentally shot.

C.R.Sam · April 19, 2001, 06:14 PM

Thanks for another classic LawDog.

Sam

mrsMTN · April 19, 2001, 06:26 PM

I LOVE your mother!! (Where's the one about Bubba on the pool table? I never read that one.)

falconer · April 19, 2001, 08:20 PM

Lawdog, not only did you ruin my keyboard (AGAIN!!!!!), but you ruined my roommate's as well. Thats it, no more beverages whilst reading your stories.

George Hill · April 19, 2001, 10:18 PM

Moms are cool...

kjm · April 19, 2001, 11:18 PM

Any yankee speeding to get back up North deserves a break in my opinion. I mean really. Speeding to go back to Massachussetts? I wish more would do that (except the cool ones which never seem to stay long anyway).

**Johnny Guest** · April 20, 2001, 12:02 AM

Another classic, young colleague.

JPG

**Tamara** · April 20, 2001, 12:28 AM

I still have some room on my PJ O'Rourke/Florence King/Hunter S. Thompson bookshelf; surely The LawDog Files, vol. I would fit nicely.

Get to typing! (insert whipcrack SFX)

buzz_knox · April 20, 2001, 07:49 AM

Taz (aka LawDog), you made my week, you little devil you.

But, I still think it was a Bugs Bunny shirt.

Mike in VA · April 20, 2001, 11:41 AM

What a great way to start the weekend

. I have learned to remove all beverages from anywhere near the 'puter when I see a new post labeled "The Lawdog Files". I truly enjoy your story-telling style and abilty to see the humor (and humanity) across the board. Best regards, M2

tlhelmer · April 20, 2001, 12:13 PM

I stopped a woman a couple of weeks ago for 90/55. When i get up to the car she is not wearing a seatbelt and her 3 year old is not wearing a seatbelt and no child restraint in the vehicle. She says I am in a hurry because I am 30 minutes late for an appointment. I go back and ding her for the speed reducing it to 70/55 (noting the 90 in case it goes to court), and the child restraint. I bring them up and she starts ripping me because it took too long (it didnt)and stated that she is now 33 minutes late. I explain to her that it takes longer to write two tickets than it does to write one. I added that three tickets would take me even longer if she still had any more complaints. Nothing more said.

ninenot · April 20, 2001, 07:57 PM

Hey DorGunR--I have a couple of TAC graduates friends up here in Milwaukee. Great school, but I prefer Christendom College...

LAWDOG--sometime I'll be driving through Texas. I try to keep it at 80 on the interstates--thus I am not too interesting to the police. However, in your town I may jack it up to 90. Wanna see Bugs!

OkieGentleman · April 21, 2001, 12:45 AM

OK I give up! Where is the story of Bubba dancing on the pool table?
LawDog you make me laugh!

Thanks for the stories.

LawDog · April 21, 2001, 01:53 AM

'Bubba on the pool table' is halfway down on this thread:
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=58958

Look for the post by LawMom.

Other LawDog Files can be found here:

http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=46160
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=37955
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=37169
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=36213
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=35526
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=46895

LawDog

[Edited by LawDog on 04-21-2001 at 06:13 PM]

**Johnny Guest** · April 21, 2001, 04:49 PM

tlhelmer---

I salute your restraint, sir.

"Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away," I, too, was a uniformed police officer. In your place, I would most probably have pointed out that she could have REALLY made herself late for her appointment by her risky driving--That it takes a L O O N G time to arrange care for a dead, or, possibly worse, a brain damaged, child.

I might well have pointed out that the law allows for immediate custody and paument of cash bond in cases of extremely hazardous vehicle operation. (No, not for "speeding only," in Texas, but the other factors would have covered it.)

Anyway, I would probably have faded some SERIOUS heat for doing that stuff. Nice work, Officer.

Best,
Johnny

Elizabeth Petersen · April 22, 2001, 03:42 AM

So there I was. Quarter to damned three in the morning, suffering from a bout of truly evil insomnia AND one of THE worst moods I've been in for a long time - work induced. NOTHING went right today. Bossman decided to declare today "Official Rag and Nag at Beth Day". I nearly committed what some people would call a second degree homicide, but what I would consider a mercy killing.

And then...I read this.

Unfortunately, because I made the erroneous assumption that due to my truly foul mood I was safe to continue sipping my late night cold tasty beverage, I have just done serious damage to my moniter AND my keyboard.

God, I haven't laughed like that in days. LawDog, I owe you big time. You just managed to perform a miracle: you just made this evil-tempered-cranking-up-to-a-full-blown-Irish-temper-tantrum redhead smile. And laugh. And nearly pee myself.

Thanks. Boy, did I need that. Talk about a much needed attitude adjustment.

Ottergal · April 22, 2001, 03:31 PM

Boy have I missed these stories, LawDog!

And what's wrong with pinning a sherrif's badge to a Taz t-shirt...or a Bugs Bunny one for that matter?!

April 19, 2001, 03:23 PM	#1
LawDog Staff Emeritus Join Date: September 15, 1999 Location: Where am I going? Why am I in this handbasket? Posts: 4,200	There I was: book in paw, a comfy chair, a huge mug of tea and good music in the CD. Two quiet days off tend to be a rarity in small departments -- especially if you happen to be the only single officer in the department. I intended to enjoy that weekend to the fullest. ring, ring I don't want to answer the phone, I am not here, I died and..."Hello." "Boy, the Shamu Squad are turning some jerk in a pink car loose 'bout 12 miles west of town. He's been speeding since California, and I want you to get out there and slow him down afore he hits town." sigh Small towns. We only had one radar unit in the department and it was installed in the night deputies cruiser to keep him awake during the wee hours of the morning. Guess who was the night deputy? Being used to situations like this, I customarily kept a denim vest with a badge stuck to it hanging on a chair by the front door along with a shoulder holster holding a pistol, reload and a pair of cuffs. Mind busily trying to plot where to intercept this guy, I dress on the bounce out to the car, start the cruiser, fire up the radar, hit US287 -- just in time to see the unit light up. 98 in a 45. I whip a U-turn, catch up to the driver and get him pulled over. Now, I admit at the time I looked fairly youngish, so I was pretty used to odd looks when I walked up on a car during a traffic stop. I walk up to the drivers side, knock on the window and the man behind the wheel gives me a startled look. Matter-of-fact, he just looks at me through the glass for the longest time. Finally I rap on the glass again, make a winding motion with my hand and down goes the window. "Sir, my name is Deputy **. I'm with the * County Sheriff's Office. The reason I stopped you is that I clocked your vehicle doing 98 in a marked 45MPH zone. Is there an emergency that I need to know about?" He looks at me awhile, then says, "No, I'm just in a hurry to get back to Massachusetts." "Ah," I respond, "May I see your drivers license, registration and proof of insurance please?" He kind of frowns. "Are you an officer of the law?" "Yes, sir. Deputy Sheriff." He gives me this really wierd look, then digs out his info. I go back to the cruiser, and I see him with his head out the window, looking back at me and his eyebrows are kind of crawling up and down his forehead. I write up the ticket and walk back up to the car. "Sir, would you sign this here, please. Your signature is not a plea of guilty, it is merely a promise to appear in court." He looks down at the ticket, and back up at me and says, "Are you sure you're a cop?" sigh I pointed at the badge: "I've got a badge," I open the vest, "I've got a gun," other side of the vest, "I've got handcuffs, and I can show you the jail, if you'd like." "No, no, sir, that'll be alright." He scibbles his name on the ticket, and I hand him his documents and the courtesy letter, and wish him a safe trip. It takes him a while to finally put the car in 'D' and leave, and I follow him to the city limits to make sure he keeps it to a reasonable speed. I guess as soon as I was out of sight, he crammed his foot into the gas tank and took off again. Anyhoo, he hits my Mom's hometown of Electra, and the Electra cops aren't fooling around: they snatch him up and take him directly before the judge to plea his case. He gets done paying the fine, and goes to the Dairy Queen there in Electra, whereupon he begins airing his gripes to the world. The locals, being bored, listen sympathetically. "What is it with the cops in Texas?" Everyone nods sagely, and refills his coffee cup. "I mean, here they all look like they were cloned from the same mustache." Smiles and nods all around. "I hit the Texas State line, and I got pulled over by a mustache with a pair of nunchuks hanging off his belt. (That would be Vega.) "Little later, I get ticketed by a bleach blonde grandmother." (Sheriff in Armstrong County) "But the absolute worst time," he sputtered, almost in tears, "Is X number of towns back where I got pulled over by a redheaded kid wearing a Sheriff's badge pinned to a BUGS BUNNY T-SHIRT!" It was not a Bugs Bunny T-shirt. I emphatically deny owning a Bugs Bunny t-shirt. It was a Tazmanian Devil t-shirt. Well, how often do you think about what you're wearing on your day off? Wait, the worst of it is yet to come. Every person in the diner starts counting towns on their fingers...X towns back...red-headed kid...Sheriff's badge...everyone turns and looks at Mom, sitting in the back. Who, of course, made it a point the next time she visited me, to tell the whole wretched story to a resturaunt full of gossips in my town. I caught hell about the 'Bugs Bunny T-Shirt' for years after that. LawDog __________________ "The Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer." --The 13th Warrior Bona na Croin The LawDog Files

April 19, 2001, 03:47 PM	#3
Jim V Senior Member Join Date: January 31, 1999 Location: SE Michigan - USA Posts: 4,041	LD. your Mom has to have it in for you. LOL __________________ *MOLON LABE* If it ain't metal, single stack & single action, it ain't a 1911 no matter what it looks like. 1911 Forum THE TUBBY CURMUDGEON

April 19, 2001, 04:37 PM	#5
Drundel Senior Member Join Date: November 9, 2000 Location: Friendswood, TX Posts: 563	How many tickets did he get in Texas? Damn I bet his insurance dropped his ass in a heart beat. __________________ Shotshell Information Page Texas A&M University Proud member of the Fighting Class of '00

April 19, 2001, 04:50 PM	#6
DorGunR Senior Member Join Date: January 13, 2000 Location: Maryland Posts: 1,125	LawDog, My Son was home from college this last weekend and coming home from Church I was telling him about my collection of LawDog stories especially the ones about Santa Claus and the one about Bubba dancing on the pool table.......he said "Dad...I gotta have those tales" So I'm gonna put them on a disc and mail them to him. LawDog...you're gonna be famous around campus at Thomas Aquinas College. hehehehe __________________ "Lead, follow or get the HELL out of the way." U.S. Army 1950 - 1972 NRA Life Member Vietnam 1966/67 - 1969/70

April 20, 2001, 12:02 AM	#15
Johnny Guest Staff Join Date: August 28, 1999 Location: North Texas Posts: 4,058	Another classic, young colleague. JPG __________________ MOLON LABE! Amendment II ensures the rest of the Bill of Rights. Blog: Expert Witness

April 19, 2001, 04:08 PM	#4
mussi Senior Member Join Date: January 17, 2000 Location: Berne, Switzerland Posts: 758	Lawdog, how would you have reacted if he told you he put a nuclear bomb into the San Andreas fault to make the Californian coast slide into the sea? You'd still have written the ticket or you'd cheer him if it really happened?

April 19, 2001, 05:46 PM	#7
PJ11B3VF7 Senior Member Join Date: February 5, 2000 Location: Iraq Posts: 394	LawDog, man my sides are splitting and my face hurts from so much laughter. I had to do a search and read the older LawDog files. You have to write a book. Heck, I'd buy 10 copies and send them to friends and family. I gotta see your town

April 19, 2001, 06:07 PM	#8
Gopher Senior Member Join Date: December 3, 1999 Location: Texas USA Posts: 367	Almost time for another disk The Lawdog files are much bigger than the FUBAR files. More please........(private joke from another board)

April 19, 2001, 06:10 PM	#9
Mouth of Sauron Member Join Date: October 8, 2000 Posts: 36	He must of been trying to get through Arizona and Texas real fast for the 'safety' of the north east, before he was accidentally shot.

April 19, 2001, 06:14 PM	#10
C.R.Sam Senior Member Join Date: October 29, 1999 Location: Dewey, AZ Posts: 12,868	Thanks for another classic LawDog. Sam

April 19, 2001, 06:26 PM	#11
mrsMTN Senior Member Join Date: June 23, 2000 Location: Middlebury, VT USA Posts: 450	I LOVE your mother!! (Where's the one about Bubba on the pool table? I never read that one.)

April 19, 2001, 08:20 PM	#12
falconer Senior Member Join Date: January 7, 2000 Location: somewhere Posts: 547	Lawdog, not only did you ruin my keyboard (AGAIN!!!!!), but you ruined my roommate's as well. Thats it, no more beverages whilst reading your stories.

April 19, 2001, 10:18 PM	#13
George Hill Staff Alumnus Join Date: October 14, 1998 Location: Lapoint, Utah Posts: 11,473	Moms are cool...

April 19, 2001, 11:18 PM	#14
kjm Senior Member Join Date: December 24, 1999 Location: College Station, Texas Posts: 1,872	Any yankee speeding to get back up North deserves a break in my opinion. I mean really. Speeding to go back to Massachussetts? I wish more would do that (except the cool ones which never seem to stay long anyway).

April 20, 2001, 12:28 AM	#16
Tamara Staff Join Date: March 11, 2000 Location: Indianapolis, IN Posts: 15,521	Ya know, I still have some room on my PJ O'Rourke/Florence King/Hunter S. Thompson bookshelf; surely The LawDog Files, vol. I would fit nicely. Get to typing! (insert whipcrack SFX) __________________ MOLON LABE! 2% Unobtainium, 98% Hypetanium. The Arms Room: An Online Museum.

April 20, 2001, 07:49 AM	#17
buzz_knox Senior Member Join Date: December 2, 1999 Location: Knoxville, in the Free State of Tennesse Posts: 4,191	Taz (aka LawDog), you made my week, you little devil you. But, I still think it was a Bugs Bunny shirt.

April 20, 2001, 11:41 AM	#18
Mike in VA Senior Member Join Date: October 16, 1998 Location: Santa FE, NM Posts: 2,159	Thanks, Lawdog! What a great way to start the weekend . I have learned to remove all beverages from anywhere near the 'puter when I see a new post labeled "The Lawdog Files". I truly enjoy your story-telling style and abilty to see the humor (and humanity) across the board. Best regards, M2

April 20, 2001, 12:13 PM	#19
tlhelmer Senior Member Join Date: June 14, 2000 Location: Indiana Posts: 628	I stopped a woman a couple of weeks ago for 90/55. When i get up to the car she is not wearing a seatbelt and her 3 year old is not wearing a seatbelt and no child restraint in the vehicle. She says I am in a hurry because I am 30 minutes late for an appointment. I go back and ding her for the speed reducing it to 70/55 (noting the 90 in case it goes to court), and the child restraint. I bring them up and she starts ripping me because it took too long (it didnt)and stated that she is now 33 minutes late. I explain to her that it takes longer to write two tickets than it does to write one. I added that three tickets would take me even longer if she still had any more complaints. Nothing more said.

April 20, 2001, 07:57 PM	#20
ninenot Senior Member Join Date: November 2, 2000 Location: SE Wisconsin Posts: 217	Hey DorGunR--I have a couple of TAC graduates friends up here in Milwaukee. Great school, but I prefer Christendom College... LAWDOG--sometime I'll be driving through Texas. I try to keep it at 80 on the interstates--thus I am not too interesting to the police. However, in your town I may jack it up to 90. Wanna see Bugs! __________________ The old tyrants invoked the past. The new tyrants will invoke the future. GKC

April 21, 2001, 12:45 AM	#21
OkieGentleman Senior Member Join Date: August 18, 1999 Location: OKC Metro Posts: 432	OK I give up! Where is the story of Bubba dancing on the pool table? LawDog you make me laugh! Thanks for the stories.

April 21, 2001, 01:53 AM	#22
LawDog Staff Emeritus Join Date: September 15, 1999 Location: Where am I going? Why am I in this handbasket? Posts: 4,200	'Bubba on the pool table' is halfway down on this thread: http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=58958 Look for the post by LawMom. Other LawDog Files can be found here: http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=46160 http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=37955 http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=37169 http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=36213 http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=35526 http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...threadid=46895 LawDog [Edited by LawDog on 04-21-2001 at 06:13 PM] __________________ "The Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer." --The 13th Warrior Bona na Croin The LawDog Files

April 21, 2001, 04:49 PM	#23
Johnny Guest Staff Join Date: August 28, 1999 Location: North Texas Posts: 4,058	tlhelmer--- I salute your restraint, sir. "Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away," I, too, was a uniformed police officer. In your place, I would most probably have pointed out that she could have REALLY made herself late for her appointment by her risky driving--That it takes a L O O N G time to arrange care for a dead, or, possibly worse, a brain damaged, child. I might well have pointed out that the law allows for immediate custody and paument of cash bond in cases of extremely hazardous vehicle operation. (No, not for "speeding only," in Texas, but the other factors would have covered it.) Anyway, I would probably have faded some SERIOUS heat for doing that stuff. Nice work, Officer. Best, Johnny __________________ MOLON LABE! Amendment II ensures the rest of the Bill of Rights. Blog: Expert Witness

April 22, 2001, 03:42 AM	#24
Elizabeth Petersen Senior Member Join Date: March 6, 2001 Location: Utah Posts: 574	Oh God, I needed that... So there I was. Quarter to damned three in the morning, suffering from a bout of truly evil insomnia AND one of THE worst moods I've been in for a long time - work induced. NOTHING went right today. Bossman decided to declare today "Official Rag and Nag at Beth Day". I nearly committed what some people would call a second degree homicide, but what I would consider a mercy killing. And then...I read this. Unfortunately, because I made the erroneous assumption that due to my truly foul mood I was safe to continue sipping my late night cold tasty beverage, I have just done serious damage to my moniter AND my keyboard. God, I haven't laughed like that in days. LawDog, I owe you big time. You just managed to perform a miracle: you just made this evil-tempered-cranking-up-to-a-full-blown-Irish-temper-tantrum redhead smile. And laugh. And nearly pee myself. Thanks. Boy, did I need that. Talk about a much needed attitude adjustment. __________________ March all you want, sister. This mom prefers to protect her children with a 12 gauge. Vulnus pectoris sugens ne properetis mos naturae dicendi est Ask me about my Hemingway Death Wish. I dare you.

April 22, 2001, 03:31 PM	#25
Ottergal Senior Member Join Date: January 14, 2000 Posts: 267	Boy have I missed these stories, LawDog! And what's wrong with pinning a sherrif's badge to a Taz t-shirt...or a Bugs Bunny one for that matter?!