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Authorities: Singer Killed in Gunfight With Bounty Hunter
ABC News ^ | 6-11-15 | AP story

Posted on 06/11/2015 1:47:21 PM PDT by smokingfrog

Authorities say a country music singer has been killed in a gunfight with a bounty hunter trying to detain him.

Several media outlets report the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into the Tuesday night shooting of 65-year-old Randy Howard in Lynchburg. Media report Howard has performed with country music stars Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: bailjumper
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To: smokingfrog

Mommas, don’t let your babies to grow up to be outlaws


21 posted on 06/11/2015 2:03:00 PM PDT by umgud (When under attack, victims want 2 things; God & a gun)
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To: Organic Panic

22 posted on 06/11/2015 2:03:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: wrench
"I was drunk the day my momma got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pick-up truck
She got runned over by the d*mned old train."
23 posted on 06/11/2015 2:04:02 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: smokingfrog
Randy Howard - BB Gun (Live)
24 posted on 06/11/2015 2:05:10 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: smokingfrog

Thanks.

It has always been one of my favorite Mike Cross songs.


25 posted on 06/11/2015 2:05:45 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: Verginius Rufus

David Allan Coe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkKn5HrKgHQ


26 posted on 06/11/2015 2:06:01 PM PDT by umgud (When under attack, victims want 2 things; God & a gun)
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To: smokingfrog

Ah ha, the state is wising up, they do not want the public to accuse them of murder so they hire a bounty hunter to do the job for them.

Bounty hunters used to kill horse thieves and bank robbers to satisfy the lust for killing but now they will take what comes along.

Careful kids you could get shot dead in that water melon patch.


27 posted on 06/11/2015 2:06:08 PM PDT by ravenwolf (s letters scripture.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
I'd love to kiss her butt.... she won't let me...
28 posted on 06/11/2015 2:07:32 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (No tagline today.)
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To: sean327; wrench

I think y’all might be on to something...(8^D)


29 posted on 06/11/2015 2:08:35 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: WayneS
THE BOUNTY HUNTER
(Mike Cross)

Good evenin' to you Mister,
The Bounty Hunter said.
You don't know me but I know
There's a price upon your head.
I know you're wanted dead or alive,
That's what the posters say,
But I never shoot a man at night
When he ain't had time to pray.

So I'll give you until sunrise,
Tomorrow, my friend,
Before I come to shoot you down
And bring your body in.
I warn you that I do my work
Quite well with gun or knife.
I've tracked down many a man,
I've taken many of life.

Father, do not mourn for me --
Mother do not weep.
Whatever a man soweth --
That also shall he reap.

I spent a long and sleepless night
With fear upon my breast,
Tryin' to get ready for
My morning duel with death.
I hid up in a hayloft,
Out on the edge of town
And at sunrise the Bounty Hunter
Came to shoot me down.

I fired down at the Bounty Hunter
Standin' in the street.
He raised his gun and fired a round
Of shots back up at me.
He hit my chest and shoulder
And my gun flew from my hand.
Now I'm trapped up in this hayloft,
A wounded, unarmed man.

The Bounty Hunter holds his fire
And hollers up at me,
``Come out and take it like a man,
I'll make it quick and clean.''
I know my time is running out
And there's no way I can stall,
So I reach and grab the pitchfork,
That's hanging on the wall.

My body arches as I stretch
And face the risin' sun
And I feel like a warrior's bow,
Freshly carved and strung.
I launch my body through the air,
And the pitchfork in my hand
Stabs the Bounty Hunter through the chest
And pins him to the sand.

Now my muscles start to rust,
My thoughts are grownin' cold
While Gabriel and Satan,
Shoot craps for my soul.

30 posted on 06/11/2015 2:13:24 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough...the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing)
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To: umgud
Thanks.

Listening to the song again, I realize I made a couple of mistakes in the text I wrote from memory.

There should be a "Well" at the beginning of the first line, and in the last line "the" should have been "a."

31 posted on 06/11/2015 2:14:13 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

I had to go back and listen too.


32 posted on 06/11/2015 2:15:08 PM PDT by umgud (When under attack, victims want 2 things; God & a gun)
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To: ravenwolf

Bounty hunters are not hired by the state, but by the bail bondsmen.

Not all states permit Bounty Hunting. They have no powers in Oregon besides asking the Sherrif nicely


33 posted on 06/11/2015 2:17:54 PM PDT by Jack Black ( Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocide.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“I’m a bounty in my county”?


34 posted on 06/11/2015 2:20:46 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: wrench

You forgot the hound dog.


35 posted on 06/11/2015 2:22:19 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: ravenwolf

Bounty hunters do not work for the state...they work for bail bondsmen.

Dont jump bail and you wont have a bounty hunter after you.

Pretty simple eh?


36 posted on 06/11/2015 2:24:42 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: ravenwolf

The States don’t hire bounty hungers.


37 posted on 06/11/2015 2:25:33 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: ravenwolf

Did you miss the part in the article where Howard fired first?


38 posted on 06/11/2015 2:26:25 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

Hunters, not hungers.


39 posted on 06/11/2015 2:28:38 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: nickcarraway

*Real* Outlaw Country


40 posted on 06/11/2015 2:32:27 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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