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Posted By ameliog 1 year, 3 months ago in NewsA widow and grandma spent the morning in jail, arrested for refusing to give a policeman her name when he tried writing her a ticket for failing to water her yard.
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jordan111 year, 3 months ago
The ACLU needs to drag that SOB kicking and screaming into court. Then her son needs to kick his &ss! Then he needs to be fired. Then the city needs to apologize to her. Then she needs to sue the city for every dime they have. Other than that, I really have no opinion on this story.
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mark-stevens1 year, 3 months ago
ACLU won't touch it until it gets national TV atention. I have a similar problem... got a letter month later saying "Sorry, we can not help you, I have an individual problem"
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CrazyRay1 year, 3 months ago
You're supposed to maintain your property...
So apparently, you wouldn't care if your neighbor had 2ft tall grass and garbage on his lawn, huh?
Living around unkept houses lowers your property value
...and if you read the story, you'd notice that she disrespected the officer by not giving him her information so he could write her a ticket, if she would have complied, she wouldn't have gone to jail.
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mark-stevens1 year, 3 months ago
There is an attorney in Seattle that takes only questionable shootings involving King County police... he is swamped.
I have personally been involved in just the last four years in police misconduct, in which an attempt to framing me, was the cover up.
Half of the applicants for Snohomish County sheriffs fail the drug test.
Friend of mine was on leave from Vietam and was stopped by two city cops for having a "noisy" car. To avoid a ticket and paper work that would take up some of his leave time, the cops "offered" to take care of the problem if he paid them in cash!!!
I think too many people grew up with Adam 12 thinking that someone taking a job that doesn't pay that well, that could get them killed, is mentally stable!!
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tryingtofindmyway1 year, 3 months ago
"Then she needs to sue the city for every dime they have." This is exactly why our litigation system is such a catastrophic mess. Let's try to look at what happened very rationally. An old lady broke the law by resisting an officer, albiet it was a very minor offense and the officer showed a great lack of discretion. She was put in handcuffs, and due to the fact that she tried to resist she fell and hurt herself. Then she was in a jail cell for a measly hour. Now, she's really drummed up how much pain and suffering she experienced, and in her mind maybe she did, but the reality is she's fine and not much the worse for wear. But you're saying she should sue the city for every dime they have. IN NO WAY does she deserve even ONE dime from the city. Anytime Americans are inconvenienced or wronged they think they have the right to sue for thousands and millions. Idiots. People really have such an incredibly egocentric and entitlement attitude...it blows my mind.
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quackpot1 year, 3 months ago
OK, some lady answers the door to a house. The cop has no idea whether she is the maid, the baby sitter, the owners mistress, none of whom would have the authority to sign a summons. The cop doesn't know her name since she didn't give it, so the cop doesn not know if she is the home owner or not. None the less, the cop ASSUMES that she is the home owner and hauls her off to jail. BAD DEAL for the cop.
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mark-stevens1 year, 3 months ago
You must be from Russia. I have more than once refused to show ID to a cop when all they were doing was snooping.
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MeanMotherUSA1 year, 3 months ago
7-7-07...
Nobody Believes That "BIG BROTHER" EPA Exists--We You Are Living In Under POLICE STATE...
Millionares Literally $ Waste (WATER) While Those Poor Try To (Survive) EXIST,i.e. Over 44 Million(Climbing)USA Citizens Live Sleep In Streets Most Are Families Little Children STARVING...
They Want Her Property So They Can Foreclose Her House Put Up More Apartment Complexs To House Millions More Illegals Mexicanos Aliens...In Lieu Of More "CHEAP LABOR"...
Come Live In Los Angelese Sleazy,California-- L A VIVA LA Little Me-He-Cox Is Disease (Spreading Across USA) On Every Corner In Every Block They FORECLOSE Those POOR HOMES...
Up Goes 50 to 1,000 Unit Apartment Compexs On Same Piece Of Land To House More Illegals Mexicanos Aliens...
Greed Mongering Corporate America Rules Your Very Souls...
MeanMotheruSA
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Harbeas1 year, 3 months ago
I wouldn't get the ACLU involved in anything! This ordinance should be repealed. Why in the world should we be forced to use a finite resource such as water so our grass will be green. Isn't water much more important than that. Bathing, drinking and watering plants for food is far more important and we are getting short on water for those purposes.
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puffin1 year, 3 months ago
A little water? Did you see that ugly lawn? No amount of water is gonna bring that lawn back.
River rock. And lots of it.
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HannibalBarca1 year, 3 months ago
Nah, mushrooms lots and lots of mushrooms, always feel better with mushrooms. That way when you see the police you have a valid reason to be paranoid.
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cyndysotoo1 year, 3 months ago
And this from such an upstanding community of Mormons. Perhaps she is not from their church, but the neighborly/Christian thing might be so see what kind of assistance the woman needs rather than fine her or arrest her. Not everyone is able to keep up with things like extra water bills or paying for someone to come mow the lawn if she did water it. What else might she be in need of? Of course if they condemned her home and put her in a care facility, then she wouldn't have to worry about it would she? That would solve everyone's problem now wouldn't it. She wouldn't have to worry about how to take care of it, she would be taken care of, and the city could sell the home to some affluent young couple who could take care of it until they got too old, and then they could do it all over again. Who owns anything anyway??
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tkyrchncs1 year, 3 months ago
The solution to the condo/homeowners ass. is to move out of housing so controlled, of course. My mother-in law who lived in a planned community in FL was astounded that I was fine with it when my next-door neighbor painted the trim on her brick ranch lavender!
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gfarral1 year, 3 months ago
Government is intruding too much into our lives and our wallets. They have no right to tell us how to spend our money or when.
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GMendel1 year, 3 months ago
I agree lets get rid of half these cops put them to the border control, search ervything that comes across and keep out the drugs. the only way the drugscould get across is by body smugling but the can get only like an oz in themselves so the price is so jaked up no one can aford them anymore, eleminating "war on drugs". Then crime would drop because no one would "need to get a fix". jail population would decrease meaning less money we have to pay for them to sit there. The ex-drugies would become productive members of our society. But wait that would be a soulition to this problem. Then they would not have a need for all these cops,Parol or prabation, corection officers, and we would not longer be a society with a economy based on our downfall. Plus we would have to find a new way to spend tax money with the dercreaed jail and cop population.***Cops should not have pension plans i dont want to pay for thier retierment i hate them.
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CitizenJ1 year, 3 months ago
Unfortunately, you are absolutely 100% correct. There really is no need for drastic action, however. All we need to do is elect Libertarian lawmakers who are sympathetic to the ideals of liberty and will strip the bureaucrats of their authoritarian powers and repeal all of these ridiculous laws that infringe upon the natural/God-given rights guaranteed to us in our founding documents. It will take time but it can be a peaceful and deliberate process if we will all seriously involve ourselves in the political process. I love blogging about the loss of freedom in our country. Now, it's time for action.
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tobeybarnes1 year, 3 months ago
The city needs to give her free water and someone to come over and water her lawn.
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tkyrchncs1 year, 3 months ago
This is typical of the problem with modern police. 30 yrs ago the police were mainly interested in maintaining an orderly and peaceful society, and worked toward that end in as peaceful and unintrusive a manner as possible. Now they look for a reason to bully and control individuals as much as they can. TV and movies seem to have given them all an action-hero mentality. I can't think of a single situation in which it should be necessary for the police to brutalize elderly citizens. This was about the cop, not the ticket. It wouldn"t have made any difference to me if she were an arms-smuggling mastermind, this guy needs, as jordan11 said, his a** kicked.
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cannedjam1 year, 3 months ago
This has nothing to do with the state of "modern police", this was one moron cop in an isolated situation. Its funny how when one officer does something stupid all of a sudden it sparks debate about how millions of people are in the the streets and the "man" is holding us down, and its 1984.
If you go into a store and a clerk treats you bad, its not the state of modern retail, if you take a taxi and the driver was a jerk its not the state of modern livery. But for some reason when it comes to police there is a double standard. Just like in any profession there are morons. I bet you have a coworker that you think sucks, should you be evaluated based on his performance? Stop taking isolated cases and using that as a basis for evaluating a profession of thousands of hard working good people.
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GMendel1 year, 3 months ago
I think that you are missing the sense of the problem its the a cop beat on a 70 year old for not giving him her name. He is expected to be the example setter. if that cop gets that excited over that, id hate to see what he dose to a upset kid, or a drunk. they might end up with a hole in thier head cuz "he had somthing in his hands, i had no idea it was a phone" Speaking of the man the was killed calling his feinace the night before thier weding and was shot some 40 times. All cops are dirty have screwed over some kid cuz he had a bad day. i dont care if your dad was a cop he was dirty. I am not saying dirty as in doing illegal acts but pushing the truth to get a conviction so they get a bonus not caring about the other person live and the affect that thier lies have on thier future as long as they get thier quota.
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MajJohn1 year, 3 months ago
Unfortunately this is not an uncommon isolated case. There are in my opinion more bullies in law enforcement and the government in general. The jobs attract the power hungry. Such is not the case in retail and other industries. Every one of us could site an incidence of abuse of power by those who are here to protect and serve. While I agree there are good enforcement officers, if find there's not enough. Many of them are biding their time until they retire and are in their own right lazy little Nazi's. You're living in la la land until it happens to you.
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quackpot1 year, 3 months ago
You have a good point. Just like here, a retail store is often branded by the behavior of only one or a few bad sales associates.
However, unlike this case, a retail store with bad staff will not be in buisness very long.
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MikeFromCanada1 year, 3 months ago
WOW! I can't believe that. Personally I think the Officer should have been suspended WITHOUT pay, and not allowed to return to work until successfully completing some sort of sensitivity training. Secondly, I'm going to guess that the officer was responding to a complaint, and not just noticing the lawn during his patrol; which beg the question, if neighbors didn't like the state of her lawn, why not offer assistance rather than having the police show up. If I lived in a neighborhood like that, I'd be moving as soon as possible.
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Ciera-Marie1 year, 3 months ago
MikeFromCanada:
You and a couple of other people commented "where were the nieghbors?" That is one of the problems I have with what happened to this woman.
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violetknight1 year, 3 months ago
This officer must be fired, his pension stripped, his name released to the public so he can be eternally shunned by his friends, neighbors, colleagues and people on the street or grocery stores. He is a disgrace to his uniform.
Public employees are to serve and to protect. Hell give the woman a nice sand lawn.....
I thought we were trying to conserve water for drinking not for maintaining decadent lawns.
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idyll1 year, 3 months ago
The title is slightly misleading. She wasn't arrested for not watering her lawn. She was arrested for not responding to questions from the policeman. She got him mad. Not a good move on her part, but this was obviously her first contact as a 'consumer' of law enforcement. The officer over-reacted.
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Dave511 year, 3 months ago
Someone needs to fire that cop, what an idiot arresting someone that old for something like that. If that had been my mother I'm not sure what action I would have taken.
Welcome to the new USA police state arrested for what? Who's the criminal now? The 70 year old woman or the rocket science cop.
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yankieepapa1 year, 3 months ago
That police officer should be put over someones knee and have his ass spanked in public. if that was my mom it would happen.
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aceofspades11 year, 3 months ago
Yhis is just a microism of gov't authority overstepping - much like what is being attemptef in Washington right now.
Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom & if we are not a lot of us will be sitting in a cell nursing a bloody nose - or worse
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DanDell1 year, 3 months ago
moved to Manchester Maryland about 7 years ago (about 37 miles north of Baltimore) and have had a ban on water use the whole time. We can not water lawns,wash cars,or fill swimming pools. Not to mention my quarterly water bill is $208.00 . Lets hear what some of you pay for water in your area.To require a resident to use water is absurd. Be lucky you have water,some are not so lucky. I would refuse to pay the fine and maybe mulch over my entire lawn. Police in the town this happened must not have much else to do. Maybe they should send him down to Baltimore for a few shifts where they find bodies on lawns!!!
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RedHrBluEyes1 year, 3 months ago
So in Orem it's illegal to NOT water your lawn. This is while Utah is surrounded by fires partially due to the huge drought in the state. I live a short distance from the 160,000 acre Milford Flat fire that's burning out of control. In my area, many of us aren't watering our lawns because there's so little water.
As of this morning, there are only 100 firefighters (mostly volunteer) fighting that 160,000 acre blaze. How about, instead of rediculous and stupid suggestions (like spanking the officer in public), he's just sent down here to help fight the fire? Oh, and include the city council or whomever passed the ordinance. I believe they ought to experience the consequences of a lack of water.
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