Darkness Falls on Terlingua | Badlands, Texas

I’m the sheriff of Brewster County the
largest county in the state of Texas it
covers some six thousand one hundred
ninety eight square miles
we have several communities and they all
have different thoughts and different
attitudes especially in terlingua we had
crime we had a guy sells cactus on the
side of the road and a little pot you go
by it’s a Haunter system you’re supposed
to put a couple of dollars in and pick a
cactus you want somebody came and stole
his jar for this dollars in it well he
knows how much it’s got to be in it
because he’s knows how many cactuses
missing he calls the deputy deputy shows
up deputy goes to the starlight lounge
and makes the announcement that jar
better show back up and it does it’s
missing two dollars but it shows up
those are the little kind of things that
that people do in telling what the
people who live there police themselves
pretty well for us Terlingua
sparsely-populated you get really
attached to the people they’ve been
there a long while but there’s just a
handful that are actually born and
raised there folks have moved in from
different parts of the country different
parts of the world they go wow look at
this place it’s fantastic we got to live
here I know in your mind you’re probably
thinking there’s nothing here
but they find a way and they’re happy
and they’re content doing it most of
them are very nice folks you know every
living soul
but as peaceful as it is terlingua has
had recently a couple of murders and
that has been disturbing and it’s like I
said before you have feelings for the
people it makes you question yourself
all the time what the hell happened
there
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