Man Ships Self to Texas!

[Catherine Vincent]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030910/ap_on_re_us/stowaway_flight_5

If this is a dupe, I am truly sorry. I did a search and didn't find the story.

Unfreakingbelievable!

[Catch22Dem]

1. OMG and paid $550 to do it.

Nice

[sendero]

2. too funny!

what a story :)

[Blue_State_Elitist]

3. What a waste

Who wants to go to Texas??

[efhmc]

4. So rude. After all, I'm here. Besides, it is cooling off here now.

[Don_G]

5. Matcom To GOP IS EVIL?

I knew he was Nekkid and Drunk last night.

Just never knew he was a carpenter too.

[GOPisEvil]

17. Ha! If he shipped himself COD, I'd refuse delivery!

:bounce:

[rusk2003]

6. Well I guess the nutcase was getting lonely

and decided to ship himself off to where all the other nuts are living. Picked the right state.

[efhmc]

7. Again with the generalizations. When have you ever been there and

whom do you know who lives here? I can tell you after living 25 years in Houston that there is an acceptance there of people of all shapes, colors, religions, and nationalities that (again I don't really know because I have only lived in Texas)I do not hear about in other parts of the US. Maybe it is our part our Southern good manners and part our being a port/international city. Anyway, get a prospective that is not faux-Texas bush related and you might see something in a different way.

[punpirate]

9. Okay, you're close enough to Sugar Land...

... explain Tom DeLay to me, and how he fits into that acceptance thing you mentioned. *smile*

(And, yes, I'm a native Texan.)

[efhmc]

10. Actually, I do not live in Houston at this time. Were you here when that

nut first ran for office? No one took him seriously. He was so off the wall. I was talking to my rep the other day about this and he said that when he (Delay) came to Congress it was the same. No one took him seriously because he was such a nut. Yet there he is. I cannot now or then explain how a person like him gets to a position of such power. My rep. says that it because he has so much right wing and goofy religious nuts and their money behind him (and believe me that money did not all come from Texans)that he kept trying and trying until he was able to take office. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to run for the hills.

[punpirate]

11. After one of his bombasts a while back...

... I emailed his office, saying he was the reason I wouldn't admit to anyone that I came from Texas... no one likes to be on the receiving end of guilt by association. *smile*

But, some places in Texas are reasonably sane (and there are plenty of places that are not). I believe it was Molly Ivins who repeated a remark made by a former lieutenant governor on the subject: {Referring to the Texas Legislature} "If you think these people are crazy, you should see some of their constituents." :P

Cheers.

[efhmc]

12. Before the present group of carpetbaggers and friends, I was always

very proud and happy to stand up and say that my family has been here for about 170 years. (I don't think Delay is a Texas born and bred but he seems to fit the bill for many of the nut cases here. More to our shame.) Still proud but always having to explain. Wherever you are now, blessings and peace.

[rusk2003]

15. Sorry to have offended you

But the Right Wing always makes fun of California and the people in it. So we have to make fun of Texas.

[efhmc]

16. No need for apologies. I can take it and I love Cal.I think it holds the

only hope for the US in so many ways, once they get that recall righted anyway.

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Hey! I'm in Texas.

[rusk2003]

14. I guess you are one of the smart ones

Sorry to have offended yo but The right Wing and Repbulicans constantly calls California a crazy State and picks on it so we have to do the same to Texas since that is the Right Wing Conservative Republican state of America.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. I heard a little about this when I first tuned into CNN earlier

and I wondered how this could possibly have happened. Aaron Brown quoted the guy saying he could feel himself knocking into other boxes while traveling along a conveyor belt. I thought it sounded pretty unbelievable, as well. Thanks for posting the real story!:-)