Don’t steal a cow!
You could be hung, on the spot if you are a cattle thief and get caught.
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[...] Dont Steal a Cow! [...]
Cow Laws
July 24, 2007
What’s stupid about this? If you steal an animal that’s worth $1,000 on up, you deserve to be shot or hung for it and it’s still very legal to shoot cattle rustlers down here.
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LOBO
July 12, 2008
damn right thay deserve to be shot
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hoss
October 8, 2009
It’s actually still legal to not just shoot the person but to hang them
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cmoney
May 29, 2010
OMG in texas you can get shoot or hung for stealing,sure its wrong to steal but the cops should put you in jail and not let the hillbillie cowboys shoot you.
This is how texans look like:http://redriverpak.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/hillbillies.jpg?w=500&h=340
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hicks
January 12, 2011
so you people think a human life is worth more than a cows or 1000$?
oh yeah texas still has the electric chair.
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hill
January 12, 2011
Why it is do is not that the cow is worth more than a human lif it is that it is so hard to catch someone stealing your cattle that it would be hard to get them the first time make it a very easy to make money if it wasn’t for the threat of death, also you don’t have to kill them it was up to the owner’s desecration and they usually didn’t for for first offenders, just using the law to scare them to never try it again.
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C#
February 24, 2011
This is for hill that law is from the 1800′s and many other states had it 2
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cotten
April 28, 2011
this is for hill that law was inforced in the 1800′s
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jeff
April 29, 2011
ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd is awsome man like totally
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d
April 29, 2011
this is for hill that law was infoced in the 1800′s dude so get a life because cows cost about 3000 because I own a ranch in Texas u siswinden lilyliverd gras snake son of a @$#^
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jeff
April 29, 2011
@#$^ THEESE NERDS
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dan
April 29, 2011
THIS IS FOR HILL THAT LAW WAS INFORCED BACK IN THE @#$^ 1800′S AND A COW COSTS 3,OOO$ YOU SON OF A @#$^
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dan
April 29, 2011
For Hill: Selling my cows puts food in my kids bellies and clothes on their back. Loosing even one would put a strain on a family. So again ask me who’s life is worth more! The electric chair is what a cattle rustler wishes for if found on my property!
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Debra
June 25, 2011
Must have been a lot of black cattle thieves back in the day. It would explain all the hanging.
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Unknown
December 4, 2011