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Enhancing crustacean-related crime

I've frequently made fun of the fact that Texas has labeled 2,324 separate acts "felonies," including eleven felonies involving oysters. As if on cue, then, Sen. Mike Jackson this session has proposed another oyster-related enhancement, this time from a Class B to a Class A misdemeanor in the Parks and Wildlife Code for repeat offenders who take oysters from restricted areas. SB 2379 will be heard in Monday's Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee.The wag who pointed this out to me wondered, "What do you call an enhancement for oyster crimes? A Tabasco bill? A horseradish bill? This is ridiculous. It's enough to put me off oysters altogether." I replied that since this is "only a misdemeanor enhancement. I suspect Mike Jackson is soft on oyster crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 03, 2009 (boomark / email).