Posted on 06/13/2022 7:53:40 AM PDT by grundle
An Alabama man who planted flowers on the gravesite of his fiancee and was arrested at the direction of the woman’s disapproving father was found guilty of littering this week.
About a month after Winston “Winchester” Hagans got engaged, his fiancee, Hannah Ford, was killed in a three-car crash in January 2021 that shattered what was supposed to be the happiest time of their lives. To honor the 27-year-old, Hagans placed a planter box full of fresh flowers and photos of the two of them on her grave in Auburn, Ala.
But earlier this year, Hagans was arrested on a charge of criminal littering. City officials had reassured him that he could put the planter at Ford’s gravesite unless there was a complaint. Then he discovered that a complaint had been filed — by the Rev. Tom Ford, his fiancee’s father.
“The police don’t enforce the law unless the owner of the plot tries to do something about it,” Hagans told The Washington Post earlier this year, adding that his late fiancee’s father did not approve of their relationship.
Hagans was convicted Thursday on one count of criminal littering and ordered to pay about $300 in fines and court costs, the Opelika-Auburn News reported. The 32-year-old man was also given a suspended jail sentence of 30 days that will remain suspended as long as Hagans does not place any more flowers or planter boxes on his fiancee’s grave.
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Just remove it. And ask him to not be so ‘extra’. But, to Charge with a crime is over the top.
This guys sounds like real dirtbag. 10 he blows of the wishes of the father ON THE FATHER’S PRIVATE PROPERTY. Sounds like an Antifa or BLM mindset.
There should be a run on the not so Reverand Rev Ford’s church.
I am sure the fine people in his church see eye-to-eye....
The decent thing would have been for the dude to have respected the cemetery rules and not placed obnoxious wooden planters and his photos that became rotten debris.
“the decent thing for a loving father to do would be to respect her decision and her man, both when she was alive and now, after her death.”
What a load of touchy feely nonsense. The daughter us gone. They were never married. The father doesn’t have nor should accept some scumbag his daughter foolishly got involved in. That would create 2 fools.
And you are *STILL* dodging the question. If the city decided to do it themselves, *THEN* it is the city. If they city decided to do it *after* the father made it an issue, it's the *FATHER* doing it with the city as his proxy.
What smells true to me is that the city would not have given a sh*t about it except for complaints from the father.
“Just remove it. And ask him to not be so ‘extra’.”
He did. He had a friend request that. He threw away one rotten one and returned the others.
He informally complained to the city and the city told him to stop.
He didn’t stop so the father filed a formal complaint with the city.
Couldn’t they settle it by just having him remove the flowerbox?
Fie on the police and courts for entertaining that complaint.
“The police don’t enforce the law unless the owner of the plot tries to do something about it,” Hagans told The Washington Post earlier this year, adding that his late fiancee’s father did not approve of their relationship.
Sorry, Reverend Tom, but that's not a very Christian example. How 'bout a little forgiveness?
The father is the instigator here. The city is just a tool to get what he wanted.
The judge still didn't have to be a sh*tbag.
“And you are *STILL* dodging the question.”
You posted two questions:
A,”nd what of the excerpt above that said he asked and they said it was okay? How can he be violating “rules” if they told him he could do it absent a complaint?”
Again. City employee is on record telling him that there was a complaint.
“Are you making “the rules” about the complaint? If you are, that still boils down to the father, and not the cemetery “rules.””
Not me. Cemetery rules.
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Posted on 1/24/2021, 2:31:27 PM by Jim Robinson
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How would you feel if some past ‘admirer of a deceased family member kept putting obnoxious items on that persons grave?
Then he discovered that a complaint had been filed — by the Rev. Tom Ford, his fiancee’s father.
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Some reverend. What a shallow, small-minded man.
I'm sure what you see in the world makes sense to you. If I recall correctly, you were very happy that that guy in Texas shot the unarmed man for trying to get a visit with his kid.
Your view of the world doesn't make any sense to me at all.
I would like to recommend you look up the "Asch conformity experiment." Perhaps awareness of the phenomena will allow you to resist it better.
OMG this is a bit much no wonder the father was peeved, perhaps this was done to piss off the father I mean GEEZE the display is ridiculous!!!
Paper Roses?
Exactly, if he wants a say, he should have put a ring on it. Shacking up is not marriage.
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From the article...
“About a month after Winston “Winchester” Hagans got engaged, his fiancee, Hannah Ford, was killed in a three-car crash in January 2021 that shattered what was supposed to be the happiest time of their lives.”
You have no respect for the owner of this website and attack me!
And you wish judges didn’t follow the law in making their decisions!
Judge in this case: McLaughlin said he has to “rule on the law and facts”
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