A couple of weeks ago, I had just gotten up and still a little groggy when I turned on the TV and a news item on Vang was in progress. I am not sure on things like cash amounts, so if you catch me in a discrepancy, just ignore it. Anyway, he bought a 40 acre piece of land in Kenebec county in Minnesota a couple of years ago. He bought it for around $70,000, contract for deed, with $11 - 1200 payments. They were talking to a neighbor who's land bordered on Vang's. He said the 40 acres was too brushy to hunt in, so Vang and his many buddies were always rattling by his place on their way to hunt elsewhere, and there were a lot of complaints about them trespassing on peoples land. This guy had seen Vang crawl through the fence onto his dad's land on three occasions and had asked him nicely to leave, which he did. This year, Vang's "cultural" (whatever that means) wife had bought two pieces of land that adjoined Vang's forty acres shortly before the Wisconsin shootings. One for $6700, and the other for $7000, with no mention of payments. Like I said, I wasn't sure of figures, so I did an internet search on "Vang shootings" to see if I could come up with the figures. I didn't, but I sure found a lot of interesting news links on the guy. My personal favorite was one from the Washington Post. This guy is the son of General Vang Pao, "A stone cold killer", who was in charge of the CIA backed drug smuggling operation in 'Nam. Do the same search I did, and you can find out more than you want to know about our Mr. Vang. Cowpox
