And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
A plant I worked at in Seadrift Tx had large cooling water ponds around it. Wasn't unusual for 3 to 4 ft gators to crawl up on the berms and catch some sun. Occasionally they would stroll around the production units. Mostly we just ignored them, but there was always a redneck or two who was willing to grab one and return it to the pond if necessary.
I was drilling a well in south Texas once, near Freer - dry, brush country. The ranch was owned by a wealthy Houston lawyer. We woke up to find a 'gator in our water pit one morning, which shocked us because it was way out of its normal bio-range (far too dry). A previous rig had been drilling a well a year before on the same ranch, and the rig hands had asked permission to fish in the stock tank there. It was denied - the lawyer had apparently stocked it for his own fishing pleasure with largemouth bass that the rancher fed regularly. The rig hands were all Cajuns. Coonasses don't get mad, get even - they get ahead. On their next hitch, they brought a couple of gators with them and turned'em loose in the lake to eat all the fish.
I bet if they did a blood test it would show the gator lacked iron and was anemic. Then again if it ingests enough of that Lead-based paint I suspect its long range prognosis wouldn't be very good anyway.
I used to work on double acting air and gas compressors. The logo on the crosshead cover is a little hard to read but I think its a Chicago Pneumatic. All of my work was in refineries in Southern California so I never had to deal with these critters!
Yes, that's a great idea. Bite into the fuel gas skid. Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteA plant I worked at in Seadrift Tx had large cooling water ponds around it. Wasn't unusual for 3 to 4 ft gators to crawl up on the berms and catch some sun. Occasionally they would stroll around the production units. Mostly we just ignored them, but there was always a redneck or two who was willing to grab one and return it to the pond if necessary.
ReplyDeleteI was drilling a well in south Texas once, near Freer - dry, brush country. The ranch was owned by a wealthy Houston lawyer. We woke up to find a 'gator in our water pit one morning, which shocked us because it was way out of its normal bio-range (far too dry). A previous rig had been drilling a well a year before on the same ranch, and the rig hands had asked permission to fish in the stock tank there. It was denied - the lawyer had apparently stocked it for his own fishing pleasure with largemouth bass that the rancher fed regularly. The rig hands were all Cajuns. Coonasses don't get mad, get even - they get ahead. On their next hitch, they brought a couple of gators with them and turned'em loose in the lake to eat all the fish.
DeleteThat's not getting even or ahead. That is just being an asshole.
DeleteYes, that's what the saying means. Usually the treatment is reserved for those who have treated them in kind.
DeleteI bet if they did a blood test it would show the gator lacked iron and was anemic. Then again if it ingests enough of that Lead-based paint I suspect its long range prognosis wouldn't be very good anyway.
ReplyDeleteI used to work on double acting air and gas compressors. The logo
ReplyDeleteon the crosshead cover is a little hard to read but I think its a Chicago
Pneumatic. All of my work was in refineries in Southern California
so I never had to deal with these critters!