Caught on Camera stealing cows August 2nd
Arrested after being caught with said cattle August 4th
"alleged" Rustler's house burned to the ground August 5th
"alleged" Rustler's house burned to the ground August 5th
Don't we all wish he would have also stolen a horse?
ReplyDeleteOf Course!
DeleteI ever tell you about my distant cousin horse thief? They caught him out in west Texas in 1895. Very few trees around, Land owner said I got a well out back. He was the last in a long line of well hung Lapps.
DeleteI wanted to read the part of the story where his house burned to the ground.
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More will probably follow. News travels slow in rural areas and sometimes, it not reported at all. I read a story on "Cullman Daily", a reputable news outlet based in the area (one of the links I posted), but had to type in Nicholas Griffith, cattle theft, etc.). Look close in the photos. The leaves on the big oak have been "browned" and the smoke is barely visible above the crime scene tape.
Deletewhat an amazing string of coincidences.
ReplyDeleteI hope they got the right person - I'd hate think a house was burned down based on a Flock camera tip alone.
ReplyDeleteAnd in the past he would have been hung from the tree while home was burned.
ReplyDeleteGoing to say it...don't call the cops, a rope...a tree...have a beer.
ReplyDeleteSomebody just watched "Citizen Vigilante."
ReplyDeleteThose cows were really hot!
ReplyDeleteObviously it was a climate change caused fire. Too bad he wasnt in it at the time, could have blamed the white guy for the climate change also unless the fact that he was taking a bath in kerosene at the time could change things..
ReplyDeleteNice to see a few folks have had their fill with this crap, bout time.
Skidmore, Missouri, 1981: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy
DeleteShades of "Rancho Deluxe", great movie from the mid-1970s. Jeff Bridges & Sam Watterson play Montana rustlers.
ReplyDeleteCattle Rustlin has always been alive and well, especially when prices are where they are today. Nothing new, vigilante justice solves a lot of problems.
ReplyDeleteps That was about $50,000.00 worth of cattle
ReplyDeleteMore like 30 grand when they get to auction ($3000/head is average right now).
DeleteThe real money is made by the big 4 meat packers: Tyson, Cargill, JBS, and National Beef who run 85% of the beef in this country. (Ironic since JBS is a Brazilian conglomerate).
They control all beef prices.
-lg
Brazil is the largest cattle producing country in the world.
DeleteHoly smokes. This reminds me of my Great Uncle K.D. in rural Georgia decades ago.
ReplyDeleteHe was a wonderful and charitable man. He ran a still in the woods. He left his 2 beloved bulldogs (before they were bred with flat faces) to guard the still. A thief came and killed his dogs. The person probably could have gotten away with the theft, but killing the dogs....
Soon the culprit was bragging about what he did and eventually local chatter came to K.D.
The man's barn burnt to the ground.
A guy came onto my rural property, inquiring about his dog having gotten loose. I hadn't seen it, but did say there had been herd commotion.
ReplyDeleteLater, I walked out back, saw a large adult dog ranging in "predator" mode. I quickly drew and fired a handgun, being out tending my herd.
Subsequently I found a deceased (description of dog) out back.
After having lost beef cattle to depreciation, the score tally bumped my way.
Cause...
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So let me get this straight...this dude ALL BY HIMSELF....rustles 10 head of cattle?!!?!? Where were these cows living? In a pasture? In a barn? We are to believe that ONE GUY was able to load up 10 beef cows all by his liddle ol' lonesome.....Yeah, right.
ReplyDeleteI heard it from a guy who knew an ex-rustler and another guy who was worked years with the Alabama Livestock Commission investigating rustling. Cattle theft happens more frequently than one might imagine in Alabama with MS and TN being even more prone. I've been around cows most of my life. When I was younger I would wonder how someone could catch cows in an unfamiliar open pasture at night. This is one way according to the guys mentioned earlier Once a rustler has located cattle in a remote location where someone won't notice the rustler visiting the herd every night for three or four nights in a row depending how tame/wild the cows might be, feeding cows range cubes, etc. in a corner of a pasture in the hours after midnight. The fourth or fifth night the rustler will back a trailer to the corner where he has been feeding nightly. This night the rustler probably has some help carrying a couple of fence panels/gates into the pasture. Once the cows are eating the fence is cut adjacent to the open trailer, the cows are easily "pushed" onto the trailer using the gates. It doesn't always happen this way. A thief will use lots, corrals, barns, etc. if they are available and advantageous.
DeleteTake him to the train station
ReplyDeleteNo luggage allowed... Although I guess now it's, "Take him to the mine shaft." Well, less innocuous than train station, but still, in the end, "Watch that first step! It's a doozy!"
DeleteNothing to see here, keep moving.
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