Missing: Orange County Investigator’s Dignity (thanks to Dave Maass)
You gotta love Texas justice, such as this kind request posted on a Texas prosecutors’ messageboard (Tdcaa.infopop.net) on Saturday: “Please put a good country ass whoopin on whoever is wearing [my badge], prior to placing them in jail,” wrote Kevin Breshears, an investigator with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. In addition to Breshears’s badge (#610), the “low life” who broke into his car while Breshears was having dinner with his son in Kerrville also nabbed his .45 semi-automatic Sig Sauer P220 handgun, laptop, and $600 digital camera, plus a “large and expensive array of lenses.” And on Breshears’s birthday, no less! Apparently, the Kerrville Police Department wasn’t sympathetic: “I can’t believe how I was treated there by the detective and the brass!” Breshears wrote. You’d think they gave him a good country ass-whoopin for introducing a firearm into the criminal stream.
Well, this one’s right up my alley, since I’m an auto fire & theft investigator. In my line of work, I’ve learned a few lessons along the way from the mistakes of others. Rule #1 is DON’T LIVE $#!& IN YOUR CAR! Rule #2 is a corollary: when in doubt, refer to Rule #1. If you do leave $#!&, especially expensive S#!&, in your car, and it’s stolen…well, you pretty much deserve what you get. That’s harsh, but it’s the equivalent of putting a “STEAL ME!!” sign on your windshield. If you’re a cop, and your brain-dead enough to leave your handgun in your car…well, don’t be surprised when your get treated like the dumbass you truly are. All you’ve managed to do is introduce yet another handgun into the wrong hands. Nice going, eh?
Yep, tune in next week, when TPRS heads out to a deer lease in the Texas Hill Country with a bunch of blind hunters (thanks, Leslie!)…and hopefully lives to tell about it. (Uh, those things aren’t going to be loaded, are they??)
Did someone say “blind hunters”?? Welcome to Texas, where we take the right to bear arms SERIOUSLY. Yep, a lack of eyesight is no impediment to being able to own and use firearms. Scary, eh??
