US woman arrested over dry lawn

 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6282348.stm






US woman arrested over dry lawn





A 70-year-old US woman has been left bruised and bloody after an unexpected
clash with police who came to caution her for not watering her lawn.
Trouble flared when Utah pensioner Betty Perry, 70, refused to give her name
after being upbraided because her garden breached local regulations.

She says the officer hit her with handcuffs, cutting her nose, although
police insist she slipped and fell.

Ms Perry said she was "distraught" after the incident.

She denied accusations she was resisting arrest, maintaining that she only
turned to go inside to call her son to fix the confusing dispute.

"I tried to sit down and get away from him [the police officer]," she told
Utah newspaper the Daily Herald.

"I don't know what he's doing. I said: 'What are you doing?' And he hit me
with those handcuffs in my face," she said.

"He's just trying to cover his tracks, as far as I'm concerned."

The officer had judged that Ms Perry's "sadly neglected and dying landscape"
breached an Orem city guideline and was attempting to issue a formal caution
when the 70-year-old was injured.

She was treated in a local hospital for the cut to her nose and for other
bruises before being taken to jail.

But she was let go when police realised there were "other ways" of finding
out her identity without jailing her, a police spokesman said

The arresting officer has not been named but has been placed on
administrative leave, he added.

Ms Perry, who says she has never had a run-in with police in the past, has
been offered help by local church leaders to clean up her garden.

"I'm very distraught over all this," she said.

"I can't believe this happened. Do you ever just wish you could start your
day over and it would all be different?"

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" Never give a sucker an even break"
- W.C. Fields

  It's about time they rounded up criminals such as this :-)

 

I;m glad you added the :-)

or as they say on the Cover of the Nolo Press book   "Neighbor Law"

" They wouldn't be so bad if they didn't live next door."

--
when you believe the only tool you have is a hammer.
All problems look like nails.

 Wilson wrote:

And I keep getting cowardly threatening notes from my asshole neighbor
across the street when I accidentally leave the water on all night.  Go
figure...


--
Uncle Vic
2011

 
Good story, but it should be captioned properly for this NG.

Thandarr