By Rich Kozlovich
For forty years I was an exterminator, which means running a route, so I spent a lot of time in my truck. Radio degenerated, and got really tired of the music, and the talk shows with so many nitwits spouting off about things they clearly didn't understand.
So I bought some great tapes from old radio shows, and books by Louis L'Amour. Louis L'Amour loved the Texas Rangers. One of them he talked about, who before he became a Ranger, was a horse rancher.
Three men came onto his ranch and stole his horse herd taking off to Mexico with them. His friends wanted to form a posse and go after them but he said they’d be in Mexico before that, so he took off after them alone. He rode night and day until he caught up with them. A shoot out entailed with him killing two of them and arrested the third.
When he returned with the herd and told what happened, they asked where’s the prisoner? He said since he’s been riding day and night he was exhausted and falling asleep in the saddle. The rustler told him when he fell asleep he was going to kill him and take the herd to Mexico. He realized the truth of that and decided he needed to find a way to secure him for the night so he could finally get some sleep, safely.
So he tied his hands behind him, put him on his horse, threw a rope over a tree branch tied it off and tied the other end around his neck, and went to sleep. When he woke up in the morning he said wouldn’t you know it, that darned horse walked off and left him in the middle of the night.
Well, that’s not what happened. He just hung the man. They knew he hung the man. And they didn’t care because they were going to hang the man anyway.
So, what’s the moral of this story. It’s important to know the difference between right and wrong, and what needs to be done about it.