Posted on 11/06/2006 8:45:34 AM PST by Millee
Police have arrested a Burlington County man for using a lawn mower to cut a racial slur in the grass in an open field.
Dennis E. Westphal, 19, of Edgewater Park turned himself in to the Edgewater Park Township police on Thursday, a day after authorities issued a warrant for his arrest, according to a statement from the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office.
Police were initially alerted to the incident on Aug. 31 when a local resident called them, said Jack Smith, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.
The racial slur, which was cut into a field of tall grass on township-owned property, was also spotted by someone in a plane flying overhead who then alerted police.
Westphal was charged with bias intimidation and harassment and released on his own recognizance pending a court hearing on Nov. 15.
No telephone listing could be found for Westphal.
"Somebody" snuck into our rival high school's football field the night before their homecoming game against us and used bleach to write "GO PANTHERS!" (our school's mascot) on the field in huge letters spanning the length of the field.
Turned out pretty good. (If I do say so myself... ;-))
Well done!
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