by "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" <xeton2001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jul 2, 2008 at 11:20 PM
Brent P <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:QbWdnZVs5uDaIfbVnZ2dnUVZ_tjinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> From fark.com:
>
> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/5867060.html
>
> Katy teen Stephen Gegenheimer had just bought $50 worth of roman
> candles and fireworks Monday afternoon and was headed home to set them
> off in his front yard when he spotted fla****ng lights in his rearview
> mirror.
>
> An arson officer with the Houston Fire Marshal's Office told the
> 17-year-old that he'd violated the law by driving through an annexed
> area of Houston with fireworks in his trunk.
>
> Gegenheimer was baffled. Fireworks are illegal in the city of Houston,
> but legal in Harris County. He'd bought his fireworks legally at a
> stand in unincor****ated Harris County and was planning to take them to
> his house in Katy, a few miles away, where he could legally use them.
>
> But Gegenheimer's direct route from the Wal-Mart in the 1300 block of
> Fry Road to his house in the 20600 block of Morning Creek Drive passed
> through a small stretch of Fry Road that has been annexed by the city
> of Houston, so the officer ticketed him.
>
He broke the law didn't he? If he'd been caught with a gram of coke in
his
trunk you'd be all for giving him 20 years.
