CATTLE GUARDS TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.. - The Firearms Forum

rooter · 06-14-2010, 03:59 AM

You will love this one, I haven't stop laughing yet………….

For those of you who have never traveled to the west, or southwest, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing over that area. For some reason the cattle will not step on the "guards," probably because they fear getting their feet caught between the rails.

A few months ago, President Obama received and was reading a report that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado. Colorado ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, so he ordered the Secretary of the Interior to fire half of the “cattle” guards immediately!!

Before the Secretary of the Interior could respond and presumably try to straighten him out, Vice-President, Joe Biden, intervened with a request that…. before any “cattle” guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining.

Passed on to you without further comment....

199er · 06-14-2010, 02:32 PM

Hehehee good one!!...................Remember though, truth is stranger than fiction

06-14-2010, 03:59 AM	#1
rooter VMBB Senior Chief Of Staff Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Marty Robbins old hometown, Glendale Arizona--a suburb of Phoenix. Contributor Posts: 9,341	CATTLE GUARDS TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.. You will love this one, I haven't stop laughing yet…………. For those of you who have never traveled to the west, or southwest, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing over that area. For some reason the cattle will not step on the "guards," probably because they fear getting their feet caught between the rails. A few months ago, President Obama received and was reading a report that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado. Colorado ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, so he ordered the Secretary of the Interior to fire half of the “cattle” guards immediately!! Before the Secretary of the Interior could respond and presumably try to straighten him out, Vice-President, Joe Biden, intervened with a request that…. before any “cattle” guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining. Passed on to you without further comment.... __________________ -->

06-14-2010, 02:32 PM	#2
199er Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Columbia SC Posts: 627	Re: CATTLE GUARDS TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.. Hehehee good one!!...................Remember though, truth is stranger than fiction