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Danish reporter learns: "Don't Mess With Texas"
A wayward Danish reporter met an angry woman with a six-shooter after stumbling into the wrong backyard in Texas

A reporter from Ritzau's Bureau accidentally wandered into a Texas home's backyard and was threatened with a revolver by the lady of the house.

And the woman could have legally shot him.

American news channel CNN reported that Ritzau journalist Terkel Svensson apparently could not get an internet connection on his laptop computer at the building in Crawford, Texas, where he and other reporters were covering President Bush's meeting with the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Svensson went outside to call his colleagues in Denmark on his mobile phone and began walking while he talked. He became acutely aware he was in the woman's garden when an older lady came outside the house and shouted, 'Get off my property - you're trespassing'.

Although Svensson made a hurried departure, he only later realised the woman had a gun after seeing pictures taken by a photographer across the street.

Svensson told CNN that such an incident would never have occurred in Denmark. 'A person might say that you needed to get off their property, but they never would pull a gun on you,' he said. 'I'm really shocked.'
Y'gotta admit, though, when she's waving a gun you're a lot less likely to say something witty like "No, I don't want to and you can't make me!" In Denmark she'd have to beat you to death with a shovel and risk spraining her shoulder.
When she said 'git', he got. What's the problem?
When asked whether he thought there would have been an international incident if he had been shot, Svensson answered 'undoubtedly'.

Texas law allows residents to defend their property from trespassers with deadly force. Another 17 of the 50 states also have the same legislation in place. (RC)
Posted by: mrp 2008-03-04
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=231791