This is the first time in my life that I've been given the good cop / bad cop routine by the same person LOL.....
No one mentioned "the shooting" or whatever it is that you are now going to hang your bad behavior on, Sir.
I must apologise for making it appear that you phoned Joe D. at 5 am, when it was Bill Cagle that you apparently phoned at that hour.
I must congratulate you (Mr. Thompson) for believing you are smarter than we stupid reptile people. I have a brother in law in Houston that you'd probably get along with famously. He thinks he's smarter than the rest of we mere mortals too. He, at least, can spell, and he isn't as blatantly offensive as you are, but the super-intellect he believes he is in possession of comes off just as crassly as does yours.
I often wonder why people with such high IQs would stoop to menial tasks such, as police work, at all, when you (as an example) should probably be running the world economy or some other more meaningful vocation, rather than soiling your hands on the drug dealers of Texas. I'm sure you have to dumb down quite a bit in order to communicate with the lesser life forms that buy, sell and trade reptiles. You probably heard that reptile people like dope too, eh? and that's what lead you down the path to buying into snakes and such in the first place?? Come on.... you can confide in me.
I like rattlesnakes and pit bulls best of all, and I'd almost (I said almost) kill for a nice group of Blacktailed rattlesnakes, but I have to wait to get mine.... My family isn't filthy rich, and I have to support my family with my little weak-a$$ job that I go to more often than I'd like to. I spend more hours away from my family than I'd like to, and I don't have much time to waste on posting useless messages on message boards, but I felt like you are worth the little bit of time I do have this evening. You see, I'm having trouble sleeping too. I can't seem to get my arse out of bed in the morning. Do you think that if I tell everyone here what is bothering me that I'll sleep better? I don't.
I do want to thank you for the entertainment you've provided. I am sad that others have been inconvenienced by your self serving attitude and antics. You still feel as though you are completely justified in what you did. It shows in every word you write.
I'm not 6'4" tall and 250 lbs. I'm not a good fighter, in point of fact, I haven't been in a fight since I stopped drinking, 11 years ago last month. I haven't used drugs in almost as long as you've been on this earth, and if there's one thing I've learned in life, it's that you can catch far more bees with honey than you can with vinegar. You, Gilbert (Is that REALLY your name?) seem to think that you can treat everyone you deal with as though they are a perpetrator of a crime (like dirt), and as long as you provide an excuse that everything is okay. That works quite well until you get out of the third grade. I would have figured that someone who is as smart as you'd like to think you are, would have the knowledge and forethought to know that you can't treat everyone on the playground like dirt, and expect that there'll be any kids left standing around waiting to play with you.
You've managed to alienate several very nice people. The word gets around the streets pretty fast these days, what with this site and the rest of the electronic media available to breeders and "snake peddlers." There are ten times as many people who read these web sites as post here, and if you watch closely, you can see that there will be about that ratio between "views" and "posts" on your thread as well.... So, for every one comment, there'll be as many as ten people who have had a look at how you conduct yourself here.... I shouldn't have had to spell that out for someone with a superior intellect, but even Einstein made a mistake or two in his life....
So goodnight Gilbert. This may actually have been the silver bullet for my insomnia. I'm yawning and I can't seem to think of anything else to say. You've managed to dig quite a deep hole for yourself son. I hope you are a better undercover policeman than you are a businessman.
Oops, I did think of one last thing... I'd imagine that an 8500 acre cattleranch would be a PUNY cattle ranch in Texas. I'm going to ask my brother in law, you know.... the one who knows everything, what the third largest cattle ranch in Texas is called. Something tells me the owner's name isn't "Thompson".... Ever heard of "Lightsey Cattle Company?"
May God richly bless you, and may the Holy Spirit convict your heart to do the right thing..... stop behaving like a little kid bent on making people angry with you. Life is too short to make enemies.