Let me tell y'all how my morning went:
I'm leaving the Deanarosa for work about 7:15 or so. I'm driving my truck, with a trailer on the back so I can stop and pick up feed on the way home. I pull out, and head up the road in front of the spread. I see this raggedy assed Oldsmobile sitting in the road with the engine running (steam coming out of the exhaust). As I get closer, I notice a rifle barrell sticking out of the driver's window - pointing at my bottom pasture.
I pull up, just short of the window/barrell, and dude jerks the rifle back inside the car. I get out, walk up to the door just behind him, and say "WTF are you shooting at?" He goes "yearlings." I go "what kinda yearlings?" He goes "deer." I go "that's my property, I've got cattle over there, so don't be shooting across my property." He goes "hell man, I wouldn't shoot none of your cows." I go "I don't want you shooting at anything on my property, now get the **** outta here." And I walk back to my truck.
At this very moment, my wife pulls up right behind him. I tell her "get the license #" she says "I've already got it." So, I pull ahead, expecting dude to follow suit. Instead, he sticks the barrell back out the window. My wife starts doing this wild 4-point turnaround, and at this exact moment, my son pulls up - sees the gun, my wife freaking out, etc. and reaches behind his seat and gets a shotgun out.
I have to pull about a quarter mile up the road to turn around with the trailer, and as I'm doing that, dude comes flying by me at about 80 - with my kid following. I call him on his cell phone and say "have you called the sheriff?" he goes "yeah, I'm just gonna follow him and see where he goes." I say "don't get into any BS with him."
Anyhow, about 2 minutes later, here comes a sheriff. I tell him what's up, and about that time my kid calls and says the guy is cornered at a dead end (edge of the earth road - no kidding). So, sheriff takes off with lights, etc. and within about 30 seconds here comes about 4-5 more sheriffs. Looked like the cavalry. I don't know if they've caught him yet, but I'm fixin' to call over there.
What's aggy about this? Dude is wearing an OSU stocking cap, has an OSU bumper sticker, and I damn near got high from all the pot smoke rolling outta his POS Olds. Well that, and he seemed almost perplexed as to why I didn't think it was a good idea to not poach deer on somebody's property from the road. "Hell man, I wouldn't shoot your cows." WTF?
We'd have probably been on the news if this were a weekend. I always empty my truck of all firearms before heading to work on Monday since carrying them on a government property is a no-no. The fact he was poaching on a Monday very well may have saved his life. And me from going to jail.
****ing aggies.