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Tennessee Woman Sentenced To Jail For Not Mowing Her Lawn
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
The trend of average U.S. citizens being incarcerated by overzealous judges and prosecutors within the police state formerly known as America continues with reckless abandon. In fact, these sorts of cases are becoming so commonplace I simply cannot keep up with all of them. The following story is a perfect followup to my piece earlier today, which shows how American public school students are being arrested or harassed by police for the most minor of infractions, such as wearing too much perfume, sharing a classmates’ chicken nuggets, throwing an eraser or chewing gum.
If you are an adult American slave, you can add not mowing your lawn to the list of prison-worthy crimes in the police state.
If you are a resident of Lenoir City, Tennessee, you might want to remember to mow your lawn — otherwise, you will be spending the night in jail.
Karen Holloway just spent six hours in a jail cell for failing to maintain her yard in accordance with the standards set by the city.
The saga began last summer, when Holloway was sent a citation for her overgrown grass and shrubbery. Holloway, who works a full-time job and has two children living at home, a husband in school, and one family vehicle, admits the yard needed some attention but that it just wasn’t feasible to do the work.
“The bushes and trees were overgrown. But that’s certainly not a criminal offense,” she says.
Last week, Judge Terry Vann handed down a five-day jail sentence to Holloway for refusing to comply with the city ordinances regarding yard maintenance, specifically the lack thereof. Holloway feels this was all just too much, saying, “It’s not right. Why would you put me in jail with child molesters and people who’ve done real crimes, because I haven’t maintained my yard.”
In addition to the severity of the sentencing, Holloway say she also feels that she was bullied during the process because she was never read her rights or told that she could have a lawyer present.
And you wonder why so many Americans feel the country is on the wrong track. As the Wall Street Journal noted yesterday:
The only time the public has felt worse was in October 2008, during the first, deep spasms of the recession. Then, 78% said the nation was on the wrong track, and only 12% felt good about the country’s direction. The last time “right direction” beat out “wrong track” was in January 2004 — and the last election cycle where that was the case was 2002.
For related storied about serfs being arrested for minor incidents, while the rich and powerful get away with enormous criminality, see:
Connecticut Man Arrested for “Passive Aggressive” Behavior to a Watermelon
New Jersey Threatens to Take 13-Year-Old Student From His Father Due to “Non-Conforming Behavior”
Hyper-Sensitive Illinois Mayor Orders Police Raid Over Parody Twitter Account
Charleston Man Receives $525 Federal Fine for Failing to Pay for a $0.89 Refill
The “War on Street Artists” – Puppeteer Unlawfully Arrested and Harassed in NYC Subway
Video of the Day – Thuggish Militarized Police Terrorize and SWAT Team Iowa Family
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I was wrong.
Please excuse me. I should have stated the above point more succinctly: A free woman owns her person.
While I accept your arguments are commonly seen and accepted by many, to me the woman surrenders her rights when she chooses freely to have intercourse. Just as the man surrenders his when he does the same. Both know the possible consequences.
I never agreed to that.
Obviously.
"I was wrong."
We all accept your unconditional surrender.
Things that go bump - you are referring to life as something that is easily dismissed simply because it is inconvenient - that is the danger inherent with a Pro-Abortion stance.
Ya know, I don't think that we're exactly short of humans on this finite piece of rock we call home. There's a shitload of them in third world countries, that produce even more of them at ever increasing rates. I read some report on population, saying that the North African population is basically going to double within fifty years and they can't even keep the ones they've got, fed. There sure would be a lot less problems, if there were a lot less humans. Of course, Eugenics always creeps into this and the usual comment of starting depopulation with yourself, but what does that do? It's all about Supply and Demand, that's what it comes down to. If you're alone in the desert and there are fify thousand crates of navel oranges surrounding you, well the value of those oranges is about nil. Flip that around and how about if there was one orange and fifty thousand humans? I'll never forget the LA Times article (scrubbed, btw), that was documenting Pope John Paul's visit to Mexico and he basically told the poor, peasant Mexicans, the more children you have, the closer to God you'll be. Now how stupid is that? Or better yet, how evil is that? Because you're telling this huge illiterate, third world, slum-dwelling, straining resources at the limit, peeps to have even more kids???
The Catholic authorities were pissed at my Grandmother, because she decide to stop having kids. After sixteen of them, she was getting kind of tired. In fact, my Mom and her, were pregnant at the same time!!! I have an aunt, that's a few months younger than I am! Eugenics be damned, I think it's the best of the best, that's got to breed and the lower life forms can get their pruning here and there, by Mother Nature. I'm tired of seeing the 'starving children' commercials, because I didn't ask for that man, to stick his penis, in that woman, to bear yet another hungry mouth to add to the billions on the planet, did I?
well said Hedge.
What I don't get about Americans;
- It is always about Politics no matter where I am or what I am doing, like US Citizens are the biggest Busybodies or the Biggest Fascist, Work, School, what ever
- I have to protect your kids
- I have to watch my language
- I have to never refer to sexual behavior or nudity
- I have to follow all laws of the land, and never say anything about going against the laws
- I have to live up to Christian Values, Catholic Values
- I have to get a woman, make babies, work hard, and probably get married and remarried when I get divorced
All these fascist rules. Just because someone wants to protect their kids, make sure their kids don't get new ideas, set the example for their kids, and live up to their parents Ideals of Work, Life, & Church
Religion is the biggest tool of Social Control and yet we all forget about this.
Religion is an Opiate.
Prime is Sovereignty of each Person. I don't answer to a Priest, a Preacher, a Parson, a Minister, a Guru, many of these are Capitalist Constructs, making money off of fear of not going to heaven.
Prime is Liberty, Freedom, Equality, and Individual Sovereignty.
My fear is that the USA is a fascist merging of the British Raj and German Nazi Model which was so effective as to give the Catholic Church a run for it's money.
Failing to make my point, maybe the USA is ripe for a Catholic Protestant war on US Soil... funded by Wall Street & London Bankers.
Yes, Okay. I will protect your kids if they get hurt or are in danger. Fine, I'm sorry.
What did I miss? What was this article about? An aborted fetus mowing a lawn?
Election Season. Some candidates are pushing back against Abortion in any form.
And there was a photo of a possible Premie posted above. This was followed by a lot of push-back against Sovereignty.
You know there is a lot of ground to cover about why Sovereignty is the base for good governance.
- First Christians don't act like Jesus at all
- Second old Testament might come from Mesopotamia
- Third New Testament is politically influenced
- Forth we in the US have a Military Empire that uses dehumanization to go to war for resources
- Fifth some people are happy to have a war against Islam or Evil as they read the reasons for war as Religious
- Sixth we live in Capitalism which demands 4 year college degree to stay out of the lower class, having a baby may ruin your life earnings and class level
And as I remember it
- If you bob your head to music in a bar you are drunk
- If you dance to rock music in a bar you are drunk
- Rock is called Disco in Texas and if you listen to it some people call you a criminal or a drug user
- If you visit one of the big cities, you are probably a drug user, a drunk, a criminal, and sponge money
And we have Slavery in the USA. You either have true Sovereignty or you end up with Slavery
- Chain Gang in Louisiana
- Doing Prison Work for less than a $1 an hour
- Debt Slave, indentured servant in liquor store or restaurant laundry??
- Chinese or other foreigner in a Sweat Shop making textile products or something else... maybe Restaurant worker, motel maid??
- If Vietnam was started by a False Flag, then the Draftees were Slaves just like the Roman Army under Roman Fascism
Hell we have Naked Cannibal Zombies... you want to raise kids today?
If you don't have Sovereignty, you deny this to people in foreign countries, like the USA has for the last almost 150 Years, Foreign Wars, Anti-Democracy Operations, Big Federal Budgets, and you can't chose what to believe in.
Common sense solution to the abortion question:
The fetus must be removed intact. If it can survive outside the womb it has the rights of any other human being. If it cannot it's a parasite and you have no standing to force the woman to support it with her body.
Now all you pro lifers can line up to adopt all the fetus survivors. Pro choicers can to for that matter...
go fuck yourself. and when you're done, trying picking a book that has citations instead of some garbage written almost two millenia ago by some child sodomizing, slave owning, power hungry cunts.
I thought it was obvious that I was responding to the question of, "What would Jesus do?" with the appropriate authority. I wonder what your response might be, and what book you would reference as the authority.
double post
What!?
You mean she didn't get the latest iMower 6 !!?
BLASPHEMY!
Orwell was noob....
Meanwhile Oscar Pistol-Arius gets 5 years with the possibility of breathing sweet freedom in 10 months for gunning down his girlfriend.
Just is! Blind, for sure.....
His case was weak. Even his own lawyer said he didn't have a leg to stand on.
Only a blade.
After listening to a SA professor about land/property seizure in SA, I came away with an altered perspective on that. If someone is in need, they can just take it, the law says so. Your home, your property, doesn't matter. Agenda 21 in action. Each according to his skill, each according to his need. Hence OP's gated guarded abode. Much like is happening everywhere with gentrification.
The whole thing is tragic. I can see why, especially having no legs there is the absolute possibility of him being fearful.
Prevention of Illegal Eviction Act
But their lawns are impecible. If they would just hire a lawn service like the bankers all of this nonsense could have been avoided.
Coming soon? Lawn Czar?
I was going to start the tractor today Pods but nope, fuckit
A clear-cut (or uncut?) case of failure to abide by Law'n Order.
It's clearly some Bush's fault.
Mandatory bush trimming could be next. . That would be pretty hairy to push through though IMHO.
In the town of Twin Lakes WI, in the county of Kenosha, there is something called a "Weed Commission" that fined my friend because the weeds were too tall on the lakefront of an old house he inherited and didn't live in.
Property taxes on a falling down house on the lake, per year? ~$25,000. Yeah, he sold it. County valued at $1.2M, actual value was $380k. The sucker who bought was going to tear it down and build new. hate to think what his taxes are and what they are used to purchse.
Fuck that.
LOL
double-fucking-click duh
It'll never happen. Everybody wants everybody, else, to do it. And, if they ever do it, they'll go after the wrong people.
It is not the ACTION that counts, but the MINDSET.
The rules of the state only work if a very small minority refuse to abide by them.
If enough people refuse to listen to an overbearing state, then it changes. It is not about killing, it is about defiance. Internal versus external.
pods
pods, I'm so glad you didn't omit the "l" in "flag".
;-)
I have a feeling that if and when the revolution comes, it will be led by much the same people as who are running things now.
Well, ever since I raised my black flag and let the yard grow, I've gotten warnings in the mail saying I've got two weeks to mow or they'll do it and send me the bill. So I call the number at bottom of the extortion threat and talk to a stump for an hour about what constitutes a "volunteer tree" and why leaves don't constitute acceptable "mulch". They seem to have skipped that part of the story.
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." H.L. Mencken"
You're a family man pods and the enemy is utterly depraved and without honor. Defending yourself is one thing but the offensive throat slitting should probably be farmed out to those with no ties.
Ultimately, all regulations are enforced at the end of a gun...... It's good to remember that when you go to vote.
What kind of fool would remember that, yet vote anyway?
Oh, yeah, those "citizen" fools.
...next thing you know somebody will propose making voting mandatory, with failure to do so a felony resulting in fines and prison time.
Hillary will be next president. Nothing you can do about it.
Just act surprised....
Bullets change governments far surer than votes.
Never forget it!
A poor Republican?
She still ought to be able to hire Mexicans to do her yard work.
Yeah, her offense was that she wouldn't let a Mexican do the work an American was unwilling to do.
Doubt that Tennessee is one of the reddest states in the nation
than the sentence would be contempt.
Being jailed for contempt has no time limit. I guess the judge did the perp a favor.
Whats the time limit on Contempt of Congress?
Half of this administration should be in a jail cell getting de loused and a good rimming by bubba for Contempt
I'm sure Obama would enjoy a good rimming.
Being jailed for contempt has no time limit.
Depends on the state. Here in Maryland it's 90 days. Judges are bullies, if they didn't have contempt to charge you with, in their view it would be anarchy. But "civil contempt" is something the courts invented, like jail for not mowing your lawn, and it's nonsense. It too, should be outlawed.
if you like your lawn you can keep your lawn
arrrggg I'd mow her grass
lol, way to side with the authoritays, might reach a finger up and *click* on the fking news link for the story. . .
go go amrka!!!! EWE ASS AYE!!!!
I'm not siding with the "authoritays," you blithering idiot. I'm just wondering out loud if there's more to this story than bloody Yahoo News cared to share.
Things are never so crisply cut between black and white.
I'm as appalled by government encroachment into our lives as many ZHers; but I have a difficult time believing that tall grass - unaggravated by anything else - is a jailable offense. Should there even be a law on the books for it at all? No. Just like there shouldn't be laws on the books to save us from all the other things these moral busybodies are worried about: seat belts, second-hand smoke, speeding, child restraint harnesses, alcohol, guns, etc. If I were elected dictator, I'd repeal every one of these harassing laws. Also, or perhaps in spite of that, I have a hard time believing that this woman went to jail for nothing but tall grass.
thanks for choosing me from your currently number'd 27 downvoters!
riiiiight, that's not siding with judge-ment'rs at all, hmm.
and if you were genuinely interested in the "full" non-yahoo story, a bit of searching out more details might serve your opinions.
but yeah, FIRST!!, right.
Downvotes. Hmm. You're right: I should definitely follow the herd. My bad.
From reading between the lines and a cursory google search (yielding more vague articles), I suspect you're right. My guess is that she treated the citation from the court the same way she did her lawn... As such, the title is misleading, she didn't get jail time for failing to mow her grass... that is impossible (and she'll likely get a hefty check from the state if it were true). Rather, she likely got jail time for failing to recognize the court's authority.
Again folks, we have an adversarial legal system... if you fail to assert your rights, then all sorts of inequities can result... all she had to do was show up to court on her citation.
My best guess is that city code violations like this one are "must appear" offenses (because the court has to determine whether you actually mowed your lawn) and a warrant was issued for her arrest when she failed to appear or otherwise pay the fine (and the city code enforcement officer testified that her yard was higher than the height allowed by law). Usually there is an initial warning period that offers a reasonable amount of time to mow the yard, after which you receive a citation... at which point you're smack dab in the middle of the kangaroo court treadmill (the same one that handles speeding tickets).
Same thing happens to people who don't respond to the tax authorities when they get a "send us a check" letter in the mail... assert your rights... file a responsive pleading... but do not pretend it will just go away if you do nothing.
At this point, her likely only defense is that she never received notice of the case against her, citation, etc. Since it was probably hand delivered and she signed a ticket, I doubt that will go very far... If she would have invested as much effort into mowing her lawn as she has done with creating a media blitz for herself, then the matter would have been resolved a long time ago.
Im not saying she asked for it but.......
Contempt of our courts, its judges and the system is appropriate. Black robes cannot sanctify a sleazy lawyer.
It's tough to argue with that.
Someone kindly tell me why any reasonably sane person would enlist in the military or join a law encroachment, er, enforcement agency.
Money. Especially, great pension.
Bonus: all you can shoot dogs.
rubiconsolutions,
It is becoming increasingly evident that the vast majority of currently serving police "officers" nationwide have far more in common with violence oriented criminals or the oocupying military of a conquered country that is resisting that occupation than law enforcement of several decades ago.
Hundreds of videos posted on youtube confirm this FACT.
And we put up with this?
One example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzULsIc68ME
Power over others.
Someone kindly tell me why any reasonably sane person would enlist in the military or join a law encroachment, er, enforcement agency.
"reasonably sane"
I see what you did there. . .
"Why, no true Scotsman..."
To answer rubiconsolutions question, reasonably sane people join the military because the alternative is welfare, working at walmart, or working at mcdonalds.
No one else wants to hire 18 year olds with a just a diploma.
I'm not endorsing this, I'm just stating what's going on you pesky downvoters.
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The fact that she is even in front of a judge is the problem. The city could have had the lawn cared for and put a lein on the proerty for the cost.
"This sounds to me like a case where the accused made such an ass out of herself in court that the judge sentenced her to jail for contempt. I doubt seriously that poor lawn care, by itself, is a jailable offense."
You may be quite wrong about that. I had a similar, but worse in my opinion, confrontation with the code enforcement dept. of Tampa, FL a number of years ago. The mayor at that time was a totalitarian bitch of a dwarf named Sandra Freedman, who seemed to think she was queen of all the land. She decided the best way to obtain sufficient section 8 housing was to steal the needed real estate from the peasants. I received a letter from code enforcemant at that time stating that if I did not mow the lawn and trim the shrubs that the City of Tampa would confiscate my property. The property in question was not nearly as overgrown as numerous smaller properties in the area. This property was just what they wanted, 4 adjoining lots in a mixed, lower middle class neighborhood. They would have demolished the house and garage centered on the property and then built 4 duplexes to house 8 welfare families. All this info regarding their intentions came straight from the lawyer I hired, who was handling a good number of similar cases at that time. After my attorney wrote them a appropriately worded letter, the city backed off completely. They were looking for easy targets, not a property owner who would "lawyer up" as I did. This kind of attempted theft is happening all over the country now, more than ever. The government is enemy #1. Period. You have much less to fear from drug dealers and conventional thieves. At least common criminals don't have SWAT Teams to back them up.
Good story. Thanks for sharing that.
It's said that property rights is one of the last remaining liberties people hold onto when governments slide into totalitarianism. This right is one that generally everyone can agree on - even misguided liberals. When cases like this come up, public backlash is usually very strong. Remember the heat that the Kelo decision brought upon the SCOTUS a few years back?
We used to live in your area (Tampa-St.Pete-Clearwater) a few years back. Had I known this, we could have gone fishing and to Hooters -- for their famous wings, of course. Actually, I've been to the original one in Clearwater a number of times. Great looking... wings. And things. ;-)
p.s. regarding "The mayor at that time was a totalitarian bitch of a dwarf named Sandra Freedman...", I vaguely remember her. And is spite of her libertarian-sounding name "Freed man"*, she was definitely not "libertarian" in her way of thinking or "worldview affiliation". Hope you're not "locking horns" with the current mayor, Mayor Buckhorn.
* Footnotes re Sandra Freedman:
http://www.tampagov.net/city-clerk/info/previous-mayors/freedman-sandra-warshaw
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0019_0_19567.html (for academic purposes)
http://jewishcurrents.org/the-origins-and-meanings-of-ashkenazic-last-names-12849 (for academic purposes)
This one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Freedman
Somehow by the name she sure sounds like a tribe member. Probably the reason why she thought she was JAP queen of the land.
EDIT: Apparently Kirk just confirmed my suspicions. My jewdar is still accurate.
she likely supports massive 3rd world immigration to every European and European-derived nation.... but is staunchly against sam for Ersatz Israel...
am I right or am I right?
"This sounds to me like a case where the accused made such an ass out of herself in court that the judge sentenced her to jail for contempt. I doubt seriously that poor lawn care, by itself, is a jailable offense."
That was my initial thought. The article doesn't state what she was criminally charged with. Not mowing a lawn has to be civil charges, not criminal. I am guessing she ignored notices given to her by some local agency and maybe a court order. This is a perfect case of adminstrative law being out of control. This is an excellent presentation in the Hillsdale Constitutional series about the APA being unconstitutional. Administrative law is what is being used to remove any liberty we may have left.
http://kirbycenter.hillsdale.edu/events/2014/05/hamburger
I don't know what happened to the original post, but it was about not having the whole story. Whoever posted it must not be too concerned over negative votes coming from ZH posters. Often times they are a compliment.
That's the way I see it.
In an article I read she was quoted as saying her husband was away in the military.
Should be a segway into military rape and abortion then.
You fucking asshole. Look in the mirror: YOU are what's wrong with this country.
Here's a few other travesties of justice committed by the police and courts which I've started keeping track of in a file for the PAST FEW WEEKS. In case your stupid ass hasn't been paying attention:
http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/aiyana-stanley-jones-raid/
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-chief-arrested-stalking-assault-...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/disturbing-body-cam-footage-shows-alleg...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-seize-car-told-warrant-owner-exerc...
http://rt.com/usa/194328-georgia-swat-kills-hooks/
http://theantimedia.org/cop-shoots-elderly-dog-face-wrong-house-raid-pol...
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/asset-seizure-cops-use-your-pennies-from-...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-07/common-people-do-not-carry-much...
http://higherperspective.com/2014/09/jail-meth-spaghettios.html
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/belligerent-nypd-officer-knocks-teen-un...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/stop-frisk-turns-stop-rob-cop-caught-ca...
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a29775/cecily-mcmillan-grad-school-...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/03/12/cops-use-traf...
http://libertycrier.com/family-dumbfounded-cop-breaks-door-kills-residen...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/undercover-cops-arresting-men-touching-...
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexcampbell/how-the-law-turns-battered-women-in...
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2014/10/08/first-offense-nypd-cop-caug...
http://kfoxtv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/drowning-witness-pol...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wellness-check-ends-swat-cops-severely-...
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-officers-who-...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/family-traveling-hospital-tased-assault...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-k-9-maul-handcuffed-face-suspect-bl...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cellphone-video-shows-arizona-cop-man-k...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-texas-profiling_wittm...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/video-shows-nypd-officer-smash-gun-teen...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/texas-swat-team-conducts-_n_376...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/veterans-affairs-police-caused-fatal-st...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/indiana-supreme-court-declares-officers...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/video-shows-police-brutality-victim-han...
http://www.offthegridnews.com/2014/09/06/the-infuriating-state-snatches-...
http://worldtruth.tv/graphic-dashcam-video-shows-state-trooper-shoot-una...
http://appalachianareanews.com/virginia-police-hog-tie-75-year-old-grand...
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/us-court-says-its-okay-for-police-departm...
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/06/21/237209/emails-show-feds-asking-f...
http://www.offthegridnews.com/2014/09/26/woman-pays-cash-for-home-misses...
http://www.offthegridnews.com/2014/09/30/mom-lets-6-year-old-son-play-ri...
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/tsa-agents-dumped-ashes-mans-deceased-m...
"One of my friends got hit by a paternity suit (actually that's not an accurate description - it's more like a Paternity Large Caliber Shot To The Head). The child wasn't his (by her admission) and, after years of court battles and three trips to jail (yes Virginia, there is a debtor's prison in America) the paternity test confirmed his denial.
All told he fought for eight long years and became a fearsome jailhouse lawyer. He beat the Machine - but at a terrible price. For years his "home" was a 6X8 closet in a Chiropractors office. He drove old jalopies that were held together with spit and baling wire because the state seized his vehicles. He drove illegally because the state suspended his license. He only worked odd jobs that paid under the counter because if he earned anything the state took it from him.
At one point after his "victory" the child, now a teen, showed up on his doorstep. She had gotten into a fight with her maternal parental unit and decided that she would go live with "Mr. Moneybags" (now living in a studio apartment). To my amazement he allowed her in. She lasted about four months. She had been taught that he was a bastard and it was her duty to fleece him of everything any anything she could get her grubbies on.
He tried to get her back into school and her head turned around but her programming was too strong. So he laid down the law and she ran away (good riddance!).
That's one of the more pleasant stories..."
Obviously she exceeded her crop quota.....
Did she actually HAVE a lawn to mow or did she live in a condo?
Apparently, there is more to the story than the headline suggests. According to this, she owns the property but doesn't live there; they live in an apartment. There have been numerous violations on the property going back over 10+ years.
http://www.wbir.com/story/news/local/2014/10/15/lenoir-city-woman-jailed...
I don't know the whole story either but I do know people who do not mow their lawn deserve a thrashing. Makes the entire neighborhood look like crap.
whole country looks like a crap. who should go to jail?
Die slowly and painfully in a fire.
And those poor folk who plow it up and plant potatoes?
Get off my lawn!
I can hear the conversation in jail now...What are you in for?
I didn't mow my lawn so, BACK THE FUCK OFF OR I WILL DO IT AGAIN!
That's not your yard. That's the community's yard.
next - civil forfeiture for not maintaining her lawn.
Exactly my question. Did she have some cash transactions that needed investigating or phys cash that needed seizing?
Two steps before that:
(1) Midnight door-busting SWAT raid with flash grenades.
(2) Seizure of the children by Child Protective Services.
If she knew this was coming, she could have played the "Procedure game"*
She could have grown an English Garden in her front yard. I've seen Bohemian types do this in upscale Urban areas, and get away with it. Mind you, the English Garden in their front yard actually looked more interesting and attractive than the vanilla variety of their neighbors (mostly mowed & edged lawns, with a few bushes and flowers).
If you go to images.google.com and then search for "Front Yard English Garden", you'll see tons of gorgeous gardens that do not need "mowing", but do require work and TLC. Actually, they require more work and TLC than the regular, boring lawns.
BTW, if there is a Fire Hazard ordinance against uncut lawns that dry up and turn brown in the summer, then it is the perfect legal right of the community to have the grass cut. If she won't do it, then have the City do it, and add it to her Tax bill. QED.
* In Trial Law, if a lawyer can't win on principle, he'll seek to win on Procedure. One of the most useful principles that can be used in daily life, and practiced as a Science and Art by the ambitious and ruthless. Actually, it's instinctively also played by little children, but the Educational system (public, private or home-schooled) tends to "beat it out of them" for the sake of Obedience and Control.
check out piet oudolf's work. i consider him a painter who uses nature as his medium.
hope she rots in jail. no excuse for not having a mexican mow your yard
I hope I don't get arrested for lewd behavior with a weed wacker.
I am just so grateful there are no zoning laws out here to prevent you from doing yard work in your underpants.
Honey bunny? Didn't we have a discussion the other day about click bait? :-)
"Underwear must be changed twice a day. In addition, from now on all underwear will be worn on the outside... so we can check." -- Bananas
I agree. In fact I'm up to three changes a day during the height of summer.
Green grass stains on my tighty whities are hard to explain during social gatherings.
.."Green grass stains on my tighty whities are hard to explain during social gatherings".
doin' the poodle scoot?- might ought to get checked for worms-
..just trying to help.
So you can check banana's?
Read today the craigslist & some apps are fueling a syphillis outbreak.
We live in bizarro times.
"banana's"
Bananas is a movie from back when Woody Allen was funny and still had a moral compass (dumped Mia for their adopted daughter - total moral failure in my book).
Well that jogged some synapses. Forgot all about that movie.
I think my fav was Hannah & her Sisters where he's an atheist but covers his bases with regards to all faiths. As WC Fields would say, "lookin for loopholes". ;)
Judging by what I have witnessed over the last 55 plus years (as well as some personal expereince) "Love" has no moral compass.
Lust has a compass, but you have to keep it hidden in public.
:)
pods
Like hiding a divining rod?
CD, I get you and I - as most - have done many things I'm not particularly proud of; but if tomorrow I were blessed with an adopted daughter, the least of my expectations about my self would be that I don't fuck her. I think it's a rule, anyway, it's my rule.
I agree. Was not rationalizing the behavior, just explaining the madness. For some people, Allen include, what they do for ANY reason is indefensible.
Period. Full stop.
"Underwear must be changed twice a day."
That Depends. ;-)
Welcome To Amerika
a serf not mowing lawn = 5 day jail sentence
thousands of wall streeters stealing $trillions = 0 days jail
+ for sure, now where best to get a job? Weed St. or the other, easier to maintain, Wall St.
Please keep off the grass
This is outrageous!
However, if those college kid renters across the street don't start taking in their garbage cans after they're empty I'm gonna call in for a drone strike. A man can only take so much.
Yet banksters commit crimes every nanosecond and just get a tiny fine IF that
A real gangsta-ass nigga don't go to jail
cause a real gangsta-ass nigga owns the City Hall.
REALLY makes one wonder just where that tipping point will be before the brass starts to richochet.
The tipping point was crossed long ago. Of course, it tipped toward permanent apathy once the majority of the population depends upon Uncle Sugar for direct handouts, or having a job dependent upon gov. contracts.
Besides, nearly every last one of the protestors against the government, are actually protesting for more government, albeit one of their liking. As for the militias out West, they're gonna get droned, as they're all trespassing on Uncle Sugar's land.
Of course, all of this only benefits the government, protector of the sheeple.
That may very well be for the majority, but that's not reflected in the sales of arms & ammo.
I've had some very interesting talks w/some xmil & LE folks.
I talked to a man in WI Monday buying a fermentool & HE struck up the conversation about prepping. That's pretty main stream for a total stranger to start on such subject matter.
More are awakening. They know it or LEO wouldn't be militarized. I dread the results for all.
it would seem that amrkns are bred for competitive consumption traits - when the going gets tough, the tough get shoppin'.
every story that amps up the fear memes gets more anecdotes about buying more "preps" - good little consumer units performing as intended.
I'm not holding my breath for any of these rugged individualist units combining for maximum efficiency. . .
meanwhile, debt binds folk in place, best pray your chosen bunker is in a relatively "safe" space. . .
You're absolutely right.
He started it with banking. ;)
How'd the flour turn out?
Thanks alot for getting me addicted to permies!
permies rocks, wealth of knowledge there - I blame tip e. canoe for spreading the word here years ago. . .(*waves* if he's out there)
the flour is slightly bitter, but makes a mean dumpling in a spiced venison stew! we'll be gathering more next year, definitely. . .
Lazy bitch!
Can't find any photos. Why not?
She must be white.
She must have been unarmed.
I remember being on the beach in Delware throwing a football with my buddy. Lifeguard comes over and says "thats illegal, you guys can't throw the ball on the beach".
I started laughing at him as if he was kidding, but he wasn't. He walked away - so we kept tossing the ball. He came back again, said if we dont stop he's going to call the cops. I said "go for it"
cops came said its "illegal to throw the football ON THE BEACH" - I asked him if we live in Nazi Germany or the land of the free? He didnt answer the question, but said id get a misdemeanor for not 'complying' so we went into the 'OCEAN' and started throwing the ball. Legal for now.
This country is pathetic.
G22
I live in Delaware and that's a pretty apt description of our beaches. DNREC will shut down miles of "public" beaches if they find one nesting Plover. Animals have more rights than people here. I have not been down to the beaches in years ever since they make you buy a fishing license for tidal water now. Was it this bad in the former Soviet Union?
As far as I know it was worse in the Soviet Union in a few big ways. Saying outloud that "Breshnev sucks donkey balls." or writing an essay about the evils of the communist party could earn you a one way ticket to the gulag.
But for the sheer overload of petty bullshit small stuff that can land you in trouble I think we here in the USA have reached record setting levels. Millions of vaguely written punitive laws go on the books and never come off.
USA in a nutshell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXQR-cPXlmY
Eric Frein would just handle this.
retarded. they should have mowed her lawn then slapped a lien on her house if she didn't pay the bill.
Sure, that works fine during civilized times. But, extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.
I think this makes me a serial offender.
Those Southern barbarians take no pride in "community"!
Next is 5 days for not washing the car.
They have had that in Sweden for decades.
Her `personal' lawn or the lawn of her home?
It’s not so bad.
Burgermeister Meisterburger would torch seized toys in front of the children of Sombertown.
LOL
Had to look that one up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX87QQLVD5k
Epic reference - dark stuff - http://scratchbomb.com/12/2010/holiday_horrors_deep_cuts_from_rankin-bass/
dupe
Sling blade time.
Business idea - set up a law firm that deals only in police misconduct cases in federal court
42 USC Section 1983
Police misconduct, and like here, town misconduct [let's presume that a law might not violate the Bill of Rights but still violate common sense and the basic idea of individual liberty, etc.] will persist until it is ridiculously expensive to continue - and that means lots and lots and lots of law suits.
Why wasn't the husband and/or kids thrown in jail also? Lenoir could have spent 4 times the amount on citations, police, prosecutors, judges, court recorders and jailors. I wonder how much this cost the tax payers?
"You didn't cut that lawn"
Allusions to Obummer one liners aside... as I posted recently... You do not truly "Own" your property if you have to pay "Mandatory Property Tax".
If they (the Overlords) can burden your property with a mandatory tax, then how is this different from the Middle Ages and Feudalism? People were either Serfs, Merchants, Nobility or employed by Nobility (Sheriff, Military) -- and the Serfs had to pay taxes to the Nobility, i.e. paid rent (often via sharecropping) for the use of the Land Lord's land or house.
The Republic that was is dead and has been.
First, militarization of the police.
Next, criminalization of the populace.
Predictions?
See my post above.