Top Ten New Laws in Texas

1) Decriminalizing "Noodling": The act of nabbing a catfish by thrusting your bare hand into a murky hole and letting the fish chomp down on your arm.

Comment: Anybody that is stupid enough to do this should be allowed to it legally.

2) Bring your gun to work day. Allows concealed weapon licensees to lock their guns in their car while on an employer's private parking lot.

Comment: Now how stupid is this? What good does it do to have your gun locked in your car while at work? Maybe if somebody attempts to rob you on the way out you can just scare them away by saying, "My gun is locked in the car: Stay back."

3) Bring your gun to the lake: Allow guns on boats.

Comment: Brilliant; let's go shoot it up on the water while we are drinking beer.

4) Going in circles: Prohibits any motor boat driver from circling swimmers, jet skiers, or skiers, unless they are retrieving someone who has drowned.

Comment: What? I would like to meet the legislator who wrote this one up.

5) When you need a drink most: Allows alcohol distributors and retailers to relocate and open for business during emergency periods.

Comment: What in the world does this mean? Can anyone explain this?

6) Voter ID: Anyone casting a ballot must present a photo ID at the polling place.

Comment: In order to have a voters' registration card, don't you need to have a license anyway?

7) Sexting: Reduces the penalty for minors who relay nude pictures to others around the same age, and makes it a defense against prosecution if someone receives such and image and deletes it in a timely way.

Comment: So it's okay to do it as long as you erase it (in a timely manner). You have got to be kidding me.

8) Put the phone down: Drivers would be allowed to read, write or send a text as long is the car is stopped.

Comment: How many times have you gotten behind a driver who is playing with his phone at a stop light and who is completely oblivious to whether the light has changed. Either you can do it or you can't.

9) Unpermitable: Makes it an offense to alter a handicapped parking decal to it appear legal.

Comment: This must have taken months to think up.

10) Making a scene: Currently if you run over someone's shrubbery you can skedaddle. Not anymore. This bill makes it a Class C misdemeanor to damage a building, house, fence or landscaping in an accident without making a reasonable effort to locate the owner and leave contact information.

Comment: Is this for real? Are you telling me that it used to be okay to take out someone's mailbox if you didn't get caught?

This my friends is your Texas Legislators at work.

(Information provided by the The Dallas Morning News.)