Posted on 09/10/2006 9:50:58 PM PDT by LouAvul
A mother of two has been fined for swearing at yobs who terrorised her neighbourhood.
Donna Appleyard, 32, finally snapped after months of misery in which the youths jumped over fences, trampled through gardens and shouted and swore at residents.
Ms Appleyard said she had made several complaints to police about the gang outside her home in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, but no officers had been to visit her to take the issue further.
Instead, she found herself under investigation when officers received a complaint from a 13-year-old girl, after Ms Appleyard finally lost her temper and pleaded with her tormenters: "Please, just f*** off". Two weeks later, officers called at her house and issued her with the fine.
Ms Appleyard said: "I was at the end of my tether and I admit I swore at one of them. But that's nothing compared to what my neighbours and I have suffered.
"When the police came I thought it was because I had complained. I never dreamed they had come to arrest me.
"I'm really angry that we've had to put up with this behaviour for almost a year, and then you can be taken to court and fined for shouting back at them."
Ms Appleyard was given an £80 fixed penalty notice following the incident on March 30. However, she refused to pay and was taken to court last month, when magistrates raised the sum to £120, which she must now pay or face a jail term.
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Sergeant Neil Haley, from West Yorkshire police, defended the force's actions. He said: "We appreciate that anti-social behaviour can be frustrating for people but they should not take the law into their own hands."
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Government sanctioned and sponsored lunacy. It's not idiocy; it's the idiocy of an idiot in a particularly idiotic frame of mind. The morons running the country should be run out of office and jailed.
"She should have held back with the potty mouth.
Saying that to a 13 year old and she's supposed to be the respectible one? "
Thats an interesting position to take.
This has been going on for years.I cant believe the brits cant see this.I really think it is too late.really pretty country and nice people in the early 90s. what a shame.
He is part of the old guard
Anthopos - Mick let him have what is colloquially known as a "Glasgow Kiss." Sounds like he was quite the lad in his day..and still is.
Did he get the dog back ?
It started with the widespread acceptance of saying things like -F-U in public and to children.
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