Don't Tell ME Not To!

Ok, this is an interesting enough story anyway, but the real reason I am posting it is that I noticed the Houston News tag at the end telling me not to. Hey, that's a challenge I'll take up. Come and get me, Houston News!!

oh, yeah, the Catherine Zeta Jones photo is purely for my own and Mike's amusement.


Man Ticketed For Cursing
By Ryan Korsgard

Houtson News, Tuesday, April 14, 2009

TEXAS CITY, Texas -- A Texas City man faces a ticket for cursing, KPRC Local 2 reported Monday.

Joseph Loflin said he found cat poop in his lawn. He suspected the neighbor's cat was responsible. The former police officer told the neighbor.

"'Your cat has been back there defecating in my back yard,'" Loflin said he told his neighbor. "I used the slang word, the four-letter word to describe what the cat was doing."

"He said, 'Well, I'm getting tired of cleaning up the cat mess out of my back yard," neighbor Michael Rainey said Loflin told him.

Both men agree that Loflin used the "s" word. Rainey said his 13-year-old daughter was nearby.

"I said, 'Look, I've asked you twice. This is the third time. Don't use that language in front of my daughter,'" Rainey said he told Loflin. "That's when he responded, 'There's nothing wrong with the word, and if I want to use the word, I'll use the word.'"

The men live two doors apart and have different versions of the story.

"I didn't call him a filthy name," Loflin said. "I didn't call him … I didn't use any profanity towards him. I used it as a noun, then I used it as an adverb to describe what his cat was doing. I think it was greatly taken out of context." After Loflin threatened to get a trap, Rainey called the police. The police wrote Loflin a ticket for disorderly conduct because of language.

Loflin is fighting the ticket. He is scheduled to go to court on April 22.

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