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Crap such as this didnt fly when I was a kid.

Dimocraps kissing ass for illegal votes is my guess.

Freaking water stations for wetbacks along highways in S Texas.

Not long after starting to post on the Fire, I was reprimanded by a few for saying the word.

Crap such as this didnt fly when I was a kid.

Dimocraps kissing ass for illegal votes is my guess.

Freaking water stations for wetbacks along highways in S Texas.

Not long after starting to post on the Fire, I was reprimanded by a few for saying the word.

The times, they are a changing.

There all over the Bakken.

Before autos, people used to die riding, and driving horses.

Very first one I ever saw was a small cross nailed on a big azz live oak tree on SH 16 btwn Poteet and Jourdanton Tx. not far from the Atascosa river bridge. Local kid discovered that big azz live oaks don’t move much when you hit ‘em with your chevy. That was about 1967.

Was quite the anomaly back then.

Yup! One of the primary causes of death and injury on the old Santa Fe trail was falling asleep driving your wagon and falling off the front and under the wheels.

I always thought the old desperado, Clay Allison, met a bizarre death and it wasn’t by the six-gun! If memory serves me right. While he was driving his wagon back to his west Texas spread, a sack of flour shifted and was sliding off toward the ground. He allegedly reached for it, grabbed it, and it pulled him off the seat and he too, ended up under the wheels of his heavily loaded wagon. The End.

Here in southern Az, they erect not just crosses and such, but full blown shrines. One between my place and Tombstone is maybe 4X4X6, block and stucco, full of your standard mother Mary and Jesus statues, along with a collection jar and of course the melted wax of a million candles.I made it my mission for a solid year to get it torn down, I contacted everyone from county health dept, to county supervisors up to senators.....nothing but crickets and bad excuses. Asked a county supervisor I caught in local Safeway store If it was no infraction of the law to erect one and required no permit, was it legal for me to take a front loader and level it? He stated he could see no problem with that?
Wish I had a drone to take pictures from above to show, literally about an acre around the chit hole is nothing but trash, bottles, cans, a thousand kotex and tampons and miles of chit paper along with the feces. Because of the high hispanic population of the county, not a soul wants to touch the hot button of public health risk and assume responsibility to remove the eye sore.

They need to be taken down.

Why remind everyone that someone or family you knew did something stupid while driving.

There are several around here that were put after one kid passed up a grade in a no passing zone and met a truck.

The other tried to crowd a truck heading south and got dead wrapped under the trailer wheels.

There are more but it makes no sense.