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| Danish reporter learns: "Don't Mess With Texas" | ||
| 2008-03-04 | ||
| A wayward Danish reporter met an angry woman with a six-shooter after stumbling into the wrong backyard in Texas A reporter from Ritzau's Bureau accidentally wandered into a Texas home's backyard and was threatened with a revolver by the lady of the house. And the woman could have legally shot him. American news channel CNN reported that Ritzau journalist Terkel Svensson apparently could not get an internet connection on his laptop computer at the building in Crawford, Texas, where he and other reporters were covering President Bush's meeting with the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Svensson went outside to call his colleagues in Denmark on his mobile phone and began walking while he talked. He became acutely aware he was in the woman's garden when an older lady came outside the house and shouted, 'Get off my property - you're trespassing'. Although Svensson made a hurried departure, he only later realised the woman had a gun after seeing pictures taken by a photographer across the street. Svensson told CNN that such an incident would never have occurred in Denmark. 'A person might say that you needed to get off their property, but they never would pull a gun on you,' he said. 'I'm really shocked.'
Texas law allows residents to defend their property from trespassers with deadly force. Another 17 of the 50 states also have the same legislation in place. (RC) | ||
| Posted by:mrp |
| #7 When she realized he was NOT speaking English, she knew he was another damned allien. And he ran away like one too... Now if she came out with a Winchester, for hiting targets from longer distances while on the run, then he had better start talking English FAST! Signed, TEX |
| Posted by: Tholuting the Slender9744 2008-03-04 21:41 |
| #6 I wonder how he would react to me answering the front door with a 45 on my hip in the Peoples Republic of California? It's about the only place I can legally be armed. If I actually used it I would be dispossessed and locked away forever before the trial. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2008-03-04 21:19 |
| #5 The way I heard it she didn't 'pull a gun on him' but had it in her hand, pointing at the ground. The hapless reporter acted as if she was waving it around under his nose with her finger on the trigger. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-03-04 18:32 |
| #4 old patriot i doubt he learned his lesson and will soon be filing suit |
| Posted by: sinse 2008-03-04 17:54 |
| #3 Texas has about 45 million Are you including the illegal alien population? Otherwise about 24 million. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-03-04 16:32 |
| #2 When will these idiots quit comparing the United States (or even Texas) to some European feifdom? Denmark is a lovely country, and has a lot of courage, but it's only about the size of Maryland. It has about 6 million people. Texas has about 45 million spread out over an area the size of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and a large part of Germany. Houston has more people living within a 30-mile radius of its center than all of Denmark. Our crime rate, thanks to idiots in the "legal" feld, is three times that of Denmark, even with their muzzie perpetrators. There is also a huge difference in our approach to private property: it's respected in Texas; in Denmark, all lands once belonged to either the Crown or the Church. Svensson just learned how this makes a difference in the mindset of the inhabitants firsthand. Luckily, he wasn't shot, so he can take that lesson home with him - if he's intelligent enough to learn it. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-03-04 16:20 |
| #1 And stay out! |
| Posted by: ed 2008-03-04 15:21 |