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Dogman
5th March 2013, 02:14 PM
This is a county south of me.

The still is a piece of art!

Hay Zap think you can do copper like this? ;D

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Now this is class!

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Angelina Co. authorities bust 150-gallon moonshine operation


By Michelle Reed - bio (http://www.ktre.com/story/20076681/michelle-reed) | email (http://mailto:mreed@ktre.com?body=http://www.kltv.com/story/21525764/angelina-co-authorities-bust)


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LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) -

Following a citizen's tip, law enforcement officials in Lufkin confiscated 150 gallons of moonshine Monday morning.


TABC Lt. Jeff Taylor said he received the tip last week and has since worked with the Angelina County Sheriff's Office, Diboll Police and DPS on getting a search warrant.


Taylor said they served the warrant on Tuesday morning and confiscated several 15-gallon barrels and 20 Mason jars filled with the homemade brew.


The barrels will be tested for alcohol in Austin then dumped. The jars will be tested and kept for evidence.
Taylor said they are obtaining an arrest warrant for a man, but he will only be charged with a misdemeanor.

Taylor would not identify the location of the operation, but did say it was in the Lufkin city limits.

http://www.kltv.com/story/21525764/angelina-co-authorities-bust

brosil
5th March 2013, 04:32 PM
What a shame! That's a nice piece of work.

vacuum
5th March 2013, 04:39 PM
Taylor said they are obtaining an arrest warrant for a man, but he will only be charged with a misdemeanor.
Interesting

Dogman
5th March 2013, 04:43 PM
Interesting

It is not a felony here to brew your own, but it is a class A misdemeanor with up to 1 year in a limited access steel hotel.

At least that is what the guy is facing...Max!

Santa
5th March 2013, 04:50 PM
Following a citizen's tip

I'm growing so weary of STINKING ROTTEN RAT FINKS!

Dogman
5th March 2013, 04:56 PM
I'm growing so weary of STINKING ROTTEN RAT FINKS! There is active conditioning going on by the media and the state. They are promoting heavily for people to report dam near everything going on in the neighborhoods. I hear all the time the police getting called by snoops about arguments, people walking down streets, etc, etc.

It is sickening, that you can not even have a civil verbal argument without the police showing up and running your info through the system to see if you have warrants.

Spectrism
5th March 2013, 05:34 PM
Gee I feel safer with those terrorist alcohol makers taken off the street.

midnight rambler
5th March 2013, 05:42 PM
Us lowly, incompetent, stoopid proles need to be protected from ourselves - so glad there's someone there willing to do so!

Cebu_4_2
5th March 2013, 06:06 PM
Following a citizen's tip,

Nice friends or neighbors... How old were you when you determined that you couldn't tell anyone anything legal or not?

Ares
5th March 2013, 06:16 PM
Way to go officers. Keep busting "criminals" for victimless crimes.

Land of the Free and Home of the "brave" indeed...... *sarcasm*

skid
5th March 2013, 06:23 PM
http://www.coppermoonshinestills.com/id51.html

That's a $10k still...

skid
5th March 2013, 06:25 PM
I'm growing so weary of STINKING ROTTEN RAT FINKS!

When/if the SHTF i'm sure that neighbor will be remembered....

govcheetos
5th March 2013, 06:49 PM
http://www.coppermoonshinestills.com/id51.html

That's a $10k still...


Some cool links at the bottom left of that page.

slvrbugjim
5th March 2013, 08:21 PM
This is a county south of me.



you must live close to Nacogdoches, Went to SFA 1979-1983 great town back then, loved that life in those days

Dogman
5th March 2013, 08:23 PM
you must live close to Nacogdoches, Went to SFA 1979-1983 great town back then, loved that life in those days

Agree about Nacogdoches it is a great place, collage town plus all of the history of it being the oldest city in Texas and also being in the heart of the "Big Thicket"

I is East of Longview and north of Tyler!

;D

EE_
5th March 2013, 08:47 PM
I'd pay to get to that snitch!

Tumbleweed
5th March 2013, 10:20 PM
It would sure be nice if the person who snitched would have their house accidently catch on fire and burn down. It would serve them right.

mick silver
6th March 2013, 12:18 AM
i have been thinking of building a small one thats about 25 gallons . i have most of the parts i have pick up over the years

reststop
6th March 2013, 05:46 AM
It is not a felony here to brew your own, but it is a class A misdemeanor with up to 1 year in a limited access steel hotel.

At least that is what the guy is facing...Max!



Hrmmm, I thought making moonshine was againt the law everywhere. Federal law. Beautiful work in copper. Seems like it would be easier and cheaper to use stainless steel though.


rest

Twisted Titan
6th March 2013, 05:58 AM
Would this be a good one to get?


http://www.lnlprotekt.com/custom-made-home-distillation/

Dogman
6th March 2013, 06:02 AM
Hrmmm, I thought making moonshine was againt the law everywhere. Federal law. Beautiful work in copper. Seems like it would be easier and cheaper to use stainless steel though.


rest



I also thought it was an automatic felony myself, but it seems not the case.

And copper is about one zillion time more easy to work with than stainless in so many ways.

Also copper conducts heat way better than s/s, but is reactive and can leach where s/s will not.

Imo.

Some other opinions

http://www.moonshinestillpro.com/category-s/13.htm

brosil
6th March 2013, 06:20 AM
As long as you pay the taxes and fill out the paperwork, you can produce drinking alcohol or build and sell firearms. The .gov just wants the money. State laws may very. Tobacco is a whole different story.

madfranks
6th March 2013, 06:48 AM
Yeah, how dare a man work hard to produce a product that his fellow man wants and will pay him for.


The barrels will be tested for alcohol in Austin then dumped

What a waste! But, this is just one more example of government doing what governments do best.

Son-of-Liberty
6th March 2013, 07:00 AM
The state hard at work suppressing the free market.

Snitches really are a cancer.