Don’t Mess in Texas.” That’s the punch line to a tongue-in-cheek letter Limestone County Judge Daniel Burkeen wrote to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in response to an anonymous complaint claiming, in part, that hunters staying at a cabin in the area were answering the call of nature in the woods.

A copy of Burkeen’s humorous March 31 letter has circulated among Texas lawyers via e-mail, and Burkeen says he has received telephone calls about the letter — all supportive — from as far away as Washington, D.C.

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