Police: Winter Haven woman arrested for attacking woman changing flat tire in her driveway

ABC7 ^ | 3/10/2022 | Staff

[simpson96]

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (WWSB) - A Winter Haven woman was arrested after police say she attacked a woman who had suffered a flat tire, in her driveway.

Police say the victim and her 15-year-old daughter were driving down Lake Hamilton Dr. W on Tuesday around 8:20 p.m. when she had a blowout to her right passenger tire. She pulled into a driveway to get out of the 2-lane roadway to safely change her tire. As she completed changing the tire, the homeowner, Diana Pearsall, arrived to find the victim in the driveway.

That’s when officials say Pearsall jumped out of her vehicle and began screaming at them to leave. The victim got into her vehicle and Pearsall approached the driver’s side and reached into the car punching the victim in the face. Pearsall then went to her vehicle and backed up hitting our victim’s vehicle as she was attempting to back out of the driveway.

The victim then went to another driveway and called 911.

Pearson was charged with one count of Burglary (she entered the vehicle) with Assault/Battery. She was booked into the Polk County Jail where she remains with $15,000 bond.

[T. Rustin Noone]

Was my neighbor a Saudi?

Of course!

My experience with the Saudis is that they are individually very nice - especially to Americans. But their national wealth has caused them to outsource everything associated with manual labor. They have never learned the most basic elements of self-sufficiency. For example, I ran the Riyadh office of a larger UAE-based design firm. When I arrived I noted that the offices had a number of lights that were no longer functioning. I directed the office manager to inventory the lights that had failed and to purchase the variety of lamps required to make the lights functional. His reaction was to call in a “technician” to perform this task. My reaction was to find a screwdriver and remove the cover from one of the recessed sconce lights and remove the burned out bulb. Handing the bulb to him, I simply said, “That’s one. Now do the same thing to the rest of the lights.” He was shocked that I would know what to do, let alone actually pick up a screwdriver with my own hands.

So, no. I was not that surprised that my neighbor was completely useless when it came to changing a tire on his new car. The postscript to the BMW story is that after I changed his tire, I opened the drivers door and pointed out the blue button which was his automatic roadside service call. Amazed was his only reaction.

[kearnyirish2]

I’m curious to see how this plays out; Florida seems to still have private property rights.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It has nothing to do with private property rights.

It has to do with assault.

By a nut job.