Posted on 10/12/2010 8:20:37 PM PDT by only the truth
Sometimes we get so worked up it is good to have a little common sense humor.
. Print this pageClose.If a hunter's gotta go, what's wrong with the woods? John Kelso, CommentaryUpdated: 5:22 a.m. Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Published: 7:53 p.m. Monday, May 17, 2010
If it's permissible for bears to do what bears do in the woods, why not Texas hunters?
This question popped up March 9 when the Waco regional office of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality got a complaint on hunters pooping in the woods in rural Limestone County, east of Waco.
"The complainant alleged that David Cousins had been leasing out a hunting cabin and allowing the hunters to deficate (sic) in the woods," the TCEQ complaint report says.
Part of the problem, said Anna Dunbar, regional director of TCEQ's Waco office, is that the hunting cabin had an outhouse. "It was just an old-fashioned hole in the ground with a little seat over it," she said. She explained that outhouses of this sort are "strictly prohibited."
Outhouses are illegal in Texas? What's this state coming to?
This brings up a serious philosophical question. Should hunters have plumbing, and if they do, should they be forced to use it? Doesn't the Second Amendment address hunters going in the woods? If it doesn't, it should. Many hunters go hunting not so much for the deer as to get away from the "Yes, dear." Hey, there is such a thing as quality of life.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
This brings up a serious philosophical question. Should hunters have plumbing, and if they do, should they be forced to use it? Doesn't the Second Amendment address hunters going in the woods? If it doesn't, it should. Many hunters go hunting not so much for the deer as to get away from the "Yes, dear." Hey, there is such a thing as quality of life.
The complaint was referred to Limestone County Judge Daniel Burkeen, who wrote a response to Tim Blackmon, water and waste section work leader for the TCEQ's Waco regional office.
"Dear Tim," Judge Burkeen's letter begins. "We have had some delay in our investigation of the incidents alleged in the complaint which you kindly forwarded to us. The problem is, we have recently had a rash of reports of cows, horses, sheep and goats defecating at will in pastures throughout the county. On top of this, we suspect that wild hogs, deer, and all sorts of other animals are defecating without even trying to find a proper facility. In addition, I have personal proof on my windshield of a mischievous bird defecating in flight."
You can imagine all the working hours Limestone County would burn up, and the excessive expense, if the county had to assign workers to go into the woods to gather samples and have them mailed off to be analyzed to determine who or what is the responsible party.
Or as Burkeen writes in his letter to TCEQ's Waco office, "Should we send these to you, or directly to Austin?"
"It's just one of those things that struck me: Don't these people have better things to do?" said Burkeen, who doesn't hunt. "It's one of those things that's just not really a big problem. We've got bigger problems to deal with."
In his letter, Burkeen urges the TCEQ to handle the matter locally.
"When it comes to matters of excessive defecation, Washington bureaucrats would only add to our misery," he writes.
Still, couldn't this lead to a new Cabinet position? You know, the secretary of, well, nevermind
I take a wiz wherever I feel like it. The trick it to act like you’re looking behind the seat or under the seat of your pickup when really you’re peeing on the ground.
I saw we fine those high falootin golfers /s
say
But no-body complains about someone digging a hole to commune with nature.
/johnny
I live out in the country. Only use the comode for number two. 8^)
I don’t really give a darn if guys go in the woods.
I just don’t want to see Jimbo wrote his name in the snow and its in Bubba hand writing.
We need more jurists like Judge Burkeen.
(For the record, I live on a farm in East Texas, and do my business when and where necessary)
Nice common sense judge with a great sense of humor.
In Canada, it’s legal if it’s more than 200’ from the water.
That’s what I was saying,we seem to have a shortage of common sense judges,who get(and understand) our lives,get our priorities,and refuse to coddle the insane ,wacko,purists that live among us.
That’s what I was saying,we seem to have a shortage of common sense judges,who get(and understand) our lives,get our priorities,and refuse to coddle the insane ,wacko,purists that live among us.
“”When it comes to matters of excessive defecation, Washington bureaucrats would only add to our misery,” he writes.”
I’m voting for this guy — if he’s not on my ballot I’ll send money.
Very funny!
Howdy neighbor, betcha the TCEQ is all wee-wee-d up now. That bunch has never been overloaded with common sense.
Poopin in the woods is OK so long as it ain’t near my deer stand.
Sounds like a jurist who would not hesitate to call further prosecutorial efforts “de minimus” and a waste of court time.
Hmmnn - might even sanction such waste.
;-)
Sounds like a jurist who would not hesitate to call further prosecutorial efforts “de minimus” and a waste of court time.
\one of my favorite sayings over the years(we have three boys) has been “ the whole world is a bathroom to a boy”....my wife seldom laughs
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My guess is that the ecoweenie really wanted to hassle the guys for hunting Bambi, but thought he had an end-run figured out...
I live out in the boonies -- and I was taught that one of the best things for a compost pile is high-nitrogen liquid...
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