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Welcome To Extortion, Texas.

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Fenian_Bastard, Mar 11, 2009.

  1. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    I've been to Tenaha and through it several times. It's the intersection of three U.S. highways (59, 84 and 96). Their boys basketball team is in the state tournament in Austin, by the way.

    I never got any more of a racist vibe there than in any other east Texas town. Maybe that's saying something.

    (Add: San Jacinto County is about 100 miles south on 59, on the Houston outskirts.)
     
  2. finishthehat

    finishthehat Active Member

    There's a town on I-10 in Louisiana, Sulphur I think, that got busted for this same stuff.

    Some paper did the story, and then (I believe) 60 Minutes did a piece.
     
  3. That's a helluva column.
     
  4. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    YOU TAKE THAT BACK, FEN!
     
  5. Just climate-wise, bubbler.
    Pewaukee girls, really knock me out...
     
  6. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    "Your car is blue. I believe that's ground for a strip search."
     
  7. Angola!

    Angola! Guest

    Real Sports on HBO did a piece on a minor league baseball player, who was shot by police for DWB in Bellaire, a suburb of Houston. It was pretty damning.
     
  8. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    That's what I'd like to know. Where in the Constitution does it say that any law enforcement agency get to strip away people's property if they are arrested or convicted?
     
  9. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    So I take it you are one of them pinkos who wants to coddle criminals and strip away the rights from cops.

    If you are against a police officer jamming his cold fist up your anal cavity, you must have something to hide.
     
  10. kleeda

    kleeda Active Member

    That is a hell of a lot of riding around money, I must say.
     
  11. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    i've listened to stories that black folks my age tell about driving through texas "back in the day" and how their fathers wouldn't pull over for the night until they were in new mexico. i had no idea this shit still existed today.
     
  12. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Yeah. Idiots should have kept it in the stock market.
     
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