Betty Perry feels the boot…over her lawn?
Read this, and tell me it doesn’t make your blood start to simmer a bit:
Woman takes plea deal in lousy lawn case
OREM, Utah – When 70-year-old Betty Perry was accused of neglecting her lawn, she became defiant.
Perry was arrested, handcuffed and briefly jailed in July for declining a ticket for failing to water her lawn.
She agreed on Friday to resolve her case by pleading guilty to a disorderly conduct charge and paying a $100 fine. She also faces six months of probation.
“She ends up with a sentence that is very minimal and shouldn’t intrude terribly on her day-to-day life,” prosecutor Andrew Peterson said. “For our part, it accomplishes what we set out to accomplish from the very beginning.”</em>
Which was to continue to remind the little people that the government has complete control, and if they decide you need to water your lawn, then they will harass you, manhandle you- who cares if you’re 70 and female- and arrest you for resisting. Because of your lawn.
To quote the esteemed N.W.A:
Fuck the police.
And as an aside, why does Yahoo have this story under “Odd News”? Is defiance of the police state now considered “odd”?
