Granny arrested for not watering lawn

[srqrebel]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_fe_st/odd_lousy_lawn;_ylt=Ass6shSiUZ8aQXnK0GlOXj0uQE4F

Woman takes plea deal in lousy lawn case

Sat Feb 9, 7:28 AM ET


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.

Perry was scheduled to go to trial Monday on a more serious charge of resisting arrest for refusing to give her name, accept a citation or allow herself to be handcuffed on her front steps.

"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."

Peterson said he was planning to drop the lawn neglect charge anyway because Perry has started taking care of her lawn. But it was important for the city to get a conviction for Perry's "dangerous and violent" actions following an officer's attempt to cite her, he said.

During a struggle with officer Jim Flygare, Perry fell, injured her nose, rolled onto her stomach and put her hands under her to foil a handcuffing.

Her lawyers didn't return phone or e-mail messages Friday from The Associated Press.

[JJ]

So it is with jackals they first prey upon the old, weak and young.  And who's next...

[TackleTheWorld]

Exactly how was the injured, unarmed 70-year-old lady "dangerous and violent" to the policeman who handcuffed and kidnapped her?

[Pat K]

Exactly how was the injured, unarmed 70-year-old lady "dangerous and violent" to the policeman who handcuffed and kidnapped her?

He broke a nail.

[Caleb]

where I am at, sometimes they say you shouldn't water your lawn. damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[srqrebel]

Exactly how was the injured, unarmed 70-year-old lady "dangerous and violent" to the policeman who handcuffed and kidnapped her?

She injured her own nose.

They didn't indicate toward whom she was being "dangerous and violent".  Gotta protect them subjects from themselves, ya know... tough love, they call it