A STORY;

Long ago in Social Circle, GA., my brother-in-law Horace decided after drinking a few dozen beers that it would be an excellent time to hunt a deer, four-legged. Not to mention that it was July, and the deer season had been closed forever. He and some other man jumped into a pickup and went hunting. After a bit of drive, he noticed five or six deer in this man’s front yard, they pulled over, and he pulled out his 30/30 and shot a big mama deer, then drove off at a high rate of speed. They came back to the house, drank another beer, then decided to check to see if anyone was around where they had killed the deer. They drove by the house slowly and turned around, went back, no sign of a problem. They stopped, grabbed the wheelbarrow out of the back of the truck, and ran to the deer, throwing it into the back of the truck; as the deer hit the bed of the truck, it was like the fourth of July lights came on “every direction,” more policemen then at a police convention. The house was the sheriff’s house for Walton county, and he wasn’t happy. The next day I bailed him out of jail for a thousand dollar cash bond. Three weeks later, he went to court; we were sitting in the back row when they said everyone raised for the Judge entering the court. He tells everyone to sit down, it was a packed courtroom, he had a lot of cases, but he right off the bat,” says is Horace Garcia in the courtroom,” Horace says, hear sir, this will be our first case today so we can get this man on into jail. I said, dam, that doesn’t sound promising; Horace lost all his color. The judge said, explain yourself if you can. Horace told the judge that he was hungry and needed food. The judge tells him you are a liar, sir; you were drunk, overweight, and stupid. No sir, I was starving. I have heard enough you will go to the county jail for 90 days and a 5000 dollar fine, take him away now. At this time, I stood up, honor, can I say something, Judge oh my “God” this better be good. Your honor Horace is an employee of mine and is head of my install crew; it would cause my business great harm to lose him for 90 days. Judge says, how can a man that is part of an install crew be hungry. I laughed, no, your honor, drunk, not hungry. You sit down and wait till I get all my calendar cleaned; I will think about it. After everyone leaves the courtroom, he tells Horace you are lucky, I am going to let you out to work, you must pay 1000 upfront against the fines and bring the court 200 per week, or you go to jail for six months, this first time I ever knew Horace to pay a bill on time……