Re: The Saga Of Joe Horn: Texas Man Cleared In Shotgun Shootings

Not at all...

The Julia Roberts character is based on a Real Person.

If Texas didn't exist we'd have to invent it.
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"Les Cargill" <lcargill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Jack Linthi*** wrote:
>> On Jul 18, 7:28 am, Peter Skelton <skelt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> I did think it kind of funny that this rather large (140,000) town in
>> Texas didn't have an ordinance against discharging a firearm within
>> the limits.
>
> You'd have to spend some time there to understand it. Cops in
> those parts of Tejas still wear cowboy hats.
>
> The money-to-sense ratio in Texas can be pretty far out
> of whack. There's always been a ...colorfully "nutjob"
> caste at the top of the foodchain there. The movie "Charlie
> Wilson's War" has a character ****trayed by Julia Roberts
> named "Joanne Herring" that's a caricature of that.