[Steppes] Re: [Ansteorra] Nuttiness closer to Home

[lizdenpeters@juno.com]

Up until some time in the 70s, it was illegal for the birds to defecate
on General Lee's statue in Lee Park.  Personally, I always wondered what
idiot thought that one up, how it managed to get passed and, most
important, who notified the birds??

Nuala

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:58:25 -0500 "Elaine Crittenden"
<letebts at earthlink.net> writes:
> So who got the ticket that would bring this knowledge to light? ;-)
> 
> Lete
> 
> PS. Eons ago, there were two boys in Abilene TX who found an ancient 
> law
> that you couldn't legally go through Abilene in an automobile 
> (frightening
> all the horses in town) without stopping at the outskirts of town to 
> notify
> the officials that you were going to drive a car through Abilene and 
> needed
> the required escort. They pulled the law out and asked for the 
> escort. Got
> it.
> 
> Rumor has it that the next day, the car that had had the escort got 
> a
> multitude of tickets for every infraction of the law that could be 
> legally
> mustered! Never did hear if the law was repealed.
> <giggling>
> 
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> >From: Noble Field <noble at delafyeld.com>
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> <Elfsea at ansteorra.org>, Glaslyn
> <Glaslyn at ansteorra.org>, Lindenwood <Lindenwood at ansteorra.org>, 
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> >Cc:
> >Subject: [Ansteorra] Nuttiness closer to Home
> >Date: Wed, Jul16, 2003, 6:38 PM
> >
> 
> >    Did anybody know that in TEXAS it is illegal to drive with your 
> parking
> > lights only on???  Watch out, smokey is watching!
> >           Bre'nainn
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