I was doing my weekly check on bill in the legislature when I bumped into this one:
SB 322 – Specialty License Plates/Gopher Tortoise
My hear skipped a beat. Gopher? Florida? There is only one Florida gopher deserving of a specialty plate!
And my hope came crashing down like it was the donations rate to the Booker campaign.
I did not know that animal existed.
My soul is crushed with sorrow.
Need more coffee.
Out here in the west gophers and their ilk (ground squirrels, jack rabbits, et. al) serve primarily as targets for improving shooting skills, especially with “varmint rifles.”
“I did not know that animal existed.”
Them critters is one of the many reasons why construction projects in Floriduh take 3 times as long to complete and cost twice (or more) budgetwise.
When I was in college, a badly needed parking area (aka. dirt lot) took 3 years to be done because them critters had to be dug out and relocated.
Construction for light rail @ South & Central FL was also delayed because them critters had to be relocated from some rail areas, IIRC.
Licensed to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. A man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit – ever. They’re like the Viet Cong – Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that’s all she wrote.