OT, but what a relief

Ben Franchuk wrote: I know a couple of girls whose daddy once took his TV out on the front lawn and commenced to blast it to smithereens with one a them thar evul shotguns. Concerned neighbors called the law. When they arrived, he declaimed, "It's my damned TV and I can do what I want with it in my own god-damned $@!%# yard!" Since there was no law prohibiting discharge of fireams in that town at that time, there wasn't much they felt inclined to do about it. At least not with him standing there holding a weapon of mass destruction. Now, Pops is an ornery old cuss, and I've had to fight back the temptation to deck him a time or two, which in retrospect was a mistake, fighting it back, I mean, but he might have spent a night or two in jail, at least, if he had taken the set to a TV station to perform his little exorcism. Especially nowadays. The guy in Wisconsin feels it's worth it, and really all he was doing was expressing himself, maybe in a disconcerting way, but he's getting off light, I think. I'll take that as a good sign. jbdigriz