Do you remember that slogan: “Don’t Mess with Texas?” It started out as a statewide campaign to prevent litter but became part of the Texas culture and part of the Texas pride.
I have often remarked that the slogan should be changed to “Come on down to Texas and mess with us all you want and we’ll just roll over and play dead” because that’s what most Texans do in the face of the Big Gas Mafia abuses.
But it looks like things might be changing.
Blotter: Report: Water line at well site riddled with gun shots
08:38 AM CDT on Thursday, September 8, 2011
Someone apparently displayed anger at the gas well industry at a site of new wells off H. Lively Road in western Denton.
According to a police report, a representative called for help Tuesday when he found that the water line that leads from a storage pond to the wells was riddled with bullet holes. The 3-inch aboveground line was pierced with bullets for about 200 feet, according to the report. Replacement would cost about $1,000, the representative said.
The officer noted there are homes on one side of the wells but it was not possible to tell whether the gunfire came from one of them or if someone accessed the area from an open area in the other direction.
An investigation is continuing.
I do not advocate violence but it is true that you can only push people so far.
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I don’t advocate violence, either, but I wonder if maybe whoever shot the pipeline thought it was a humongous gray snake, got scared as all get out, and just shot it in self defense?
They are pretty scary looking. If Perry can jog with a gun because he is afraid of coyotes, I guess somebody can shoot at a black snake as long as the snake is not wearing a suit.
Oh, someone shot up a polyline? I can relate.
I can understand the desire but the Big Gas Mafia can have you locked up for a very long time for even talking about such.
I’m surprised it took this long for someone to act out because of their frustration
Tonight at the Arlington City Council Budget meeting, I was cut off in the ery beginning of my speech by Mayor Cluck. I asked him not to interrupt my time to speak and to start the time over and he refused. At the end of my speech I said that the city needs to budget for security at these drill sites from terrorist threats and from the mentally ill citizens. They are also eliminating an emergency mgmt planner…I advised against that too.
I wouldn’t call shooting a pipeline violence, by that definition, going to a gun range might be construed as “a paper target hate crime.”
Was it just a convenient target to practice shooting, or did someone get tired of water restrictions on them, but not frackers? A multitude of possibilities. The Alaskan Pipeline has been shot at several times.