Posted on 05/25/2005 8:16:55 PM PDT by FairOpinion
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - An 86-year-old woman has been released from jail after being accused of calling emergency dispatchers 20 times in a little more than a half-hour to complain about a pizza parlor.
Dorothy Densmore of Charlotte was released late Tuesday after spending two nights in jail. She complained that a pizza shop wouldn't deliver to her home and wanted shop employees arrested, police said.
She faces a July 14 court date on three misdemeanor charges of resisting a public officer and two counts of misusing the 911 system, jail spokeswoman Julia Rush said.
District Judge Phil Howerton ordered authorities to gather her medical information and set her bond at $2,000.
Densmore's only other criminal offense came in March 2004, when police said she called 911 after she was asked to stop, a police report said. When an officer arrived at her apartment, the 5-foot-tall, 98-pound woman attacked him, said Officer Mandy Giannini, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police spokeswoman. Densmore scratched him, kicked and bit his hand, she said.
The same officer arrested her both times, Giannini said.
Should "little old ladies" have a get out of jail free card?
My guess is she's demented. Surely she has a doctor who can speak to her mental capacity?
It's a shame she was an illegal. They would have given her the pizza parlor.
That should say "It's a shame she wasn't an illegal."
Maybe she's just mean and bossy, and used to getting her way. My guess is she gets all sweet and whiny after she gets in trouble.
I've seen little old ladies like that--and they scare ME! LOL!
Seriously.... imagine being hauled in front of a judge because your pizza shop had a problem delivering to somebody's house! She deserved a night or two away.
Look at the charges! Clearly she has a mental problem. And she isn't doing this day in day out, she called 911 repeatedly on one occasion in 2004 and now.
And the same policeman went and arrested her.
Anyone with any sense and an ounce of compassion would have asked her, if there is anyone they can call, and have a friend or neighbor come over and distract her and keep her off the phone, or bring her pizza.
It would have been far better PR for the police, if a nice policeman would have offered to get her the pizza.
Can you imagine dragging an 86 year old woman to jail and keeping her there for two days?!
Yes
She clearly has mental problems -- the lack of compassion on this thread is shocking.
this is right up there with tasering that pregnant woman over a traffic ticket a couple of weeks ago. i hope she has some family that can mount a civil suit.
The possibility of her having a mental problem was my first thought.
I'm afraid this could have a Dominoe effect. Olive in fear it could happen to me. But DiGiorno this could happen to anyone if they are forced to wait too long for delivery.
Some *sshole tasered a pregnant woman?!?! I guess that stupidity was inevitable. (Ya know, women can be pregnant at any time and you won't necessarily know it.)
"I've seen little old ladies like that--and they scare ME!"
The beloved grandmother of my tagline used to sympathize with me when I was working retail. She said "I bet the old women are the worst!"
Well, it was the 1970s and the junkies were the worst, but the cranky old ladies weren't too far behind!
"the lack of compassion on this thread is shocking"
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You are absolutely right. Let's put it in perspective. This
little old lady is older the Supreme Court Judge Rinquist.
She was born in 1919. I hope the cop who arrested her feels like a real big man.
I would be a semester's worth of financial aid that she has some form of senile dementia. What this lady needs isn't jail, it's a hospital.
It is an interesting slice of life, but I don't think it will mushroom into a general trend. I'm just giving you a pizza my mind.
She was 8 months pregnant!
Pregnant woman 'Tasered' by police is convicted
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/223578_taser10.html
She was rushing her son to school. She was eight months pregnant. And she was about to get a speeding ticket she didn't think she deserved.
So when a Seattle police officer presented the ticket to Malaika Brooks, she refused to sign it. In the ensuing confrontation, she suffered burns from a police Taser, an electric stun device that delivers 50,000 volts.
"Probably the worst thing that ever happened to me," Brooks said, in describing that morning during her criminal trial last week on charges of refusing to obey an officer and resisting arrest.
She was found guilty of the first charge because she never signed the ticket, but the Seattle Municipal Court jury could not decide whether she resisted arrest, the reason the Taser was applied.
86 and pregnant? Well, at least she was getting out.
lol
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