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Texas doesn't have "fixit tickets"

Registration and inspection stickers are about the only ones, and they don't cost you any points as they are regulatory tickets v. moving violations.

Greg - your three DPS stops for no front plate are just PC so they can look for other things. No LEO that I know will write a "no front plate" ticket unless the driver acts like a real jerk, or it's in conjunction with several other violations being written. DPS looks for speeding tickets or PC to hunt for drugs. There are plenty of both to keep them busy.

Back in the late 60s when I was a kid I used to trap Nutria that were invading our stock tanks and possums that were getting into our chicken coops. One night I heard one of our hounds barking and figured I had just caught another possum in the trap by the chicken coop. I got dressed and headed out there with my rifle and sure enough I had caught something all right - a skunk! He had sprayed both the chicken coop and our dog who went to check it out. I shot the skunk and he let loose again. I went and woke my aunt and uncle up and told them what happened. Their reply was: you caught it - you deal with it. What a mess that was. The next afternoon I pulled my entire trap line.

Every Saturday we would head to town for haircuts and of course I would sit there reading Field & Stream until it was time to go. I can't ever recall any of their stories about trapping addressing what to do if you caught a skunk. I do remember we went through a lot of tomato juice on our dog trying to get that stench out. We finally just took some sheep shears to him.