http://redneckcrime.com What were they thinking? Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:08:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A 45-year-old South Texas woman scheduled to face negligent homicide charges will not show up for her trial tomorrow morning—the sixth trial date set for the case. Brazoria County District Attorney Jeri Yenne has dismissed the charges for lack of evidence. The woman has not and apparently will not be ... http://redneckcrime.com/archives/24 My friend Helen Ginger, writer and publisher of a great ezine for writers called Doing It Write, recently tagged me to share eight things about my writing that few people know. Since I'm not quite world famous (yet), that's not a tough order to fill. Here goes... 1) Started this ... http://redneckcrime.com/archives/23 I enjoy your blog and thought I’d share a couple of redneck crime ditties: Our family lived for a number of years in a very small, southeastern Oklahoma town. We’d moved there from an eastern city of over a million people. It was delightful to live in a place where the ... http://redneckcrime.com/archives/22 A low-down thief in Homestead, Florida, stole a backhoe, believe it or not, from a construction site this week. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the varmint then used the backhoe to haul away a Bank of America ATM that contained about $100,000 cash, according to a UPI report. Homestead police are ... http://redneckcrime.com/archives/21 A few Denton, Texas cops enjoyed a little change-of-pace excitement recently. It all started when they responded to a complaint about a home invasion in a quiet neighborhood. About the time the po-lice arrived, the burglary suspect jumped out of a window and led them on a wild 10-minute foot ... http://redneckcrime.com/archives/20 Since early August, a redneck-loving artist has been hell bent for leather on decorating the great business outdoors in Sugar House Park and other areas of Salt Lake City, Utah. Left in his wake were some mighty interesting renditions of the country music icon Johnny Cash. More than a dozen ... http://redneckcrime.com/archives/18 Ever since I can remember, probably since the birth of beer and football, the rivalry between the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma has been legendary. Folks in Dallas, the site of the annual face-off between the two teams, know to stay off the streets on Texas-OU weekend. ... http://redneckcrime.com/archives/17 Texas has long enjoyed its own form of justice, but recent revelations about local law enforcement training methods have even the most macho Texans rolling their eyes. The police chief in Alton, a small town in the Rio Grande Valley, has been charged with two counts of sexual assault for ... http://redneckcrime.com/archives/16 Two little show pigs in Leon County, Texas, met their maker one Saturday morning in June 2006. Shortly thereafter, their enraged owner, volunteer firefighter Daniel Tolopka II, 34, found them hanging from his neighbor’s tree. Recent trial records show that, according to special prosecutor Robert Gage’s opening statement, Tolopka then ... http://redneckcrime.com/archives/15 Sometime in July, nine or so people broke into a few cabins on Coldwater Canyon near Austin, Texas, and partied hearty for the next few hours. By the time all was said and done, the culprits drank or made off with about $5,000 worth of booze, including some high-falutin' scotch ... http://redneckcrime.com/archives/13