Mom scheduled to serve community service hours for chalk vandalism charge

NBC 12 ^ | July 31, 2012 | Shawn Maclauchlan

[Bob]

From the article:

"A couple of weeks ago, I was covering over pornographic drawings done in chalk.

Covering them over??? Wouldn't washing away the chalk have done the job?

[Jet Jaguar]

LOL!

[rawhide]

Mortensen will have to paint about 200 boundary posts west and east of the Boulevard Bridge. Before she even starts, she'll have to scrape off the old paint and remove surrounding weeds.

She has to do all these in 50 hours? That is one post every 15 minutes. I do not think so!

[rawhide]

Here the violent criminal still doing her crime (she will never learn):

Susan Mortensen (left) watches her daughter Ava, 4, draw on the sidewalk outside police headquarters. The troublemaker is Ava Mortensen, a 4-year-old girl with bright blue eyes, sequined shoes and a winsome smile. A week ago Ava's mother, Susan Mortensen, was ticketed by Richmond police and banned from public parks for allowing her daughter to draw on Belle Isle rocks with sidewalk chalk. "Ava, what were you drawing a picture of at the river?" her mother asks. "Butterflies and stars," Ava says.

[MaxMax]

Future occupiers.

[VMI70]

An out of town friend emailed me this morning about this.

My reply:

Rant on:

I also think the punishment is excessive. A fine, $100.00, or so, would have been more appropriate.
The rest of the story: Apparently this is not her 1st time doing something like this, so maybe that was why the penalty was so harsh.

The funny part was all the YMs (Young Mothers) rising to her defense. Some of them citing their own experiences with their little “precious adorables” chalking up their driveways, and front walks, illustrating how “advanced and creative” they are. What they don’t seem to get is that it wasn’t her property that this little “darling,” enabled by her entitled feeling mother, was defacing.

Rant off