From: firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
      
   Von Fourche wrote:   
      
   > "Gerald Clough"  wrote in message   
   > news:HomdnTLVM_yRPP_fRVn-gg@texas.net...   
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   >>Little law. If you walk into the hotel at Lajitas, the privately owned   
   >>town, early in the morning and you pester the clerk enough, she'll tell   
   >>you who those booted and spurred men are who are sitting in the side   
   >>room drinking coffee. They're employees, and the job title is   
   >>"Peacekeeper." It's a very peaceful place, even though a deputy sheriff   
   >>may only get down there twice a year.   
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   >     Privately owned town?  How can a town be owned privately?   
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   It's just property. He bought it. Paid $4.25 million. Rough place, though.   
      
   A while back, someone slipped up on the Mayor, Clay Henry III, and   
   castrated him. He (Clay) was probably drunk. He usually is. They figure   
   Jim Bob Hargrove done it. His (Jim Bob's) maid found the mayor's nuts in   
   Jim Bob's refrigerator. The D.A. said it was over something Clay got   
   from Anne Archer (the actress) that Jim Bob figured was rightly his to   
   taste of first.   
      
   Jim Bob claimed Steve Smith, the owner of the whole shebang, did it and   
   planted the goods on him to frame him. The jury hung after a day and a   
   half of deliberation the 394th District Court in Pecos. Helluva trial,   
   though, with the mayor's family jewels introduced into evidence and all.   
      
   Clay didn't used to be such a drunk. He was young and strong and a clean   
   liver back in 1998 when he killed the former mayor in a fair, stand-up   
   fight to get him out of the way so he could have the job. No trial for   
   that. It was kinda a private matter between the two of the them. Nobody   
   else got hurt, and Lajitas still had a mayor. Border politics is just hell.   
      
   ( Really. I don't make this stuff up. )   
      
   --   
                          Gerald Clough   
       "Nothing has any value, unless you know you can give it up."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)