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Woman, 70, Bloody nose for having a dry lawn
sltrib.com ^ | 07/07/07 | Julie Espinosa

Posted on 07/07/2007 3:40:24 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3

'He really abused me,' resident says after arrest by Orem police officer

OREM - Two days after Independence Day, 70-year-old Betty Perry experienced an ordeal she said shouldn't be happening in America.

The retired military and U.S. government employee answered the door at her home Friday morning to talk with a police officer about her bone-dry lawn and ended up getting arrested and suffering a bloody nose. "What have I done?" she asked. "I'm old now. I can't believe this."

The Orem police officer, as yet unnamed by city officials, cited Perry for violating a city ordinance with her "sadly neglected and dying landscape," which resembles dry hay.

When Perry refused to give her name and tried to walk inside to call her son, the officer tried to arrest her, police say. According to a police news release, while she was struggling, she tripped and fell on her doorstop, cutting open the bridge of her nose. But Perry maintains the officer split her nose when he hit her with the set of handcuffs he was trying to restrain her with.

"As far as I'm concerned, he really abused me - he brutally abused me," Perry said. "For what?" The officer called for backup, because he was driving a truck, and the now-handcuffed Perry was taken to a holding facility in Orem. She was not given water or allowed to wash her hands or call her son, she said.

"After being booked, supervisors became aware of the circumstances and immediately released the woman and returned her to her home on the basis that there were other options available to handle this situation besides making an arrest and holding the woman in jail," Orem police Lt. Doug Edwards wrote in the news release.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: arrested; bloodynose; donutwatch; drylawn; govwatch; jackboots; jbt; jbtapologists; lawns; lawthug; lds; leo; mormons; post260; propertyrights; revenooers; statistsonfr; turf; utah; zoning
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To: TornadoAlley3
"In the West, Whiskey's for drinkin'. Water's for fightin' over"
Mark Twain.
41 posted on 07/07/2007 4:25:51 PM PDT by conservativeharleyguy (Technically, we are all Republicans.)
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To: denydenydeny

“peeing on the Fourth Amendment”

Didn’t know there still was a 4th.............

/s


42 posted on 07/07/2007 4:26:07 PM PDT by combat_boots (She lives! 22 weeks, 9.5 inches. Go, baby, go!)
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To: Mugwump
I think he sends little people out into the heat. ;-)
43 posted on 07/07/2007 4:28:19 PM PDT by bannie (The Good Guys cannot win when they're the only ones to play by the rules.)
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To: msrngtp2002

I can see if it is for health/safety reasons but not for appearance. We have been having a lot of rain lately. I mowed the back, but had to to stop. I came back the next day to finish and there were high weeds already up from the mowed part.


44 posted on 07/07/2007 4:28:38 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: tenthirteen
Flame away.

You asked for it.


45 posted on 07/07/2007 4:30:49 PM PDT by mc5cents (Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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To: TornadoAlley3

If this “officer” had tried this BS at my home, he would be room temperature.


46 posted on 07/07/2007 4:31:13 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: word_warrior_bob
"...all the new guys were these steroid-fueled, shaven head monsters..."

cough-bullshit-cough.

47 posted on 07/07/2007 4:31:39 PM PDT by verity (Muhammed and Harry Reid are Dirt Bags)
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To: msrngtp2002
I have weeds that are a foot tall - will I get fined? Nobody knows. Who enforces this? Nobody knows.

If you lived in Wichita a couple of decades ago, you'd know...."BTK, Code Enforcement Czar" ruled the 'hood with an iron fist by day...


48 posted on 07/07/2007 4:32:08 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: bannie

“I think he sends little people out into the heat.”

Yup. And there’s more and more of ‘em there, unfortunately.

Had to move back “down south” after four years up there. How’d the reunion go? I was a bit under the weather and had to miss it.

Feel free to Freepmail me, BTW...


49 posted on 07/07/2007 4:33:55 PM PDT by Mugwump (Better Living Through Sarcasm)
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To: SShultz460
When is Al Gore going to defend her? She was just conserving precious resources.
50 posted on 07/07/2007 4:36:47 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I buy gas for my SUV with the Carbon Offsets I sell on Ebay!)
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To: CindyDawg
Yall aren't going to like this but not all 70 y/o women are sweet little old ladies.

Really? That does not however give the police the right to abuse their power. She was in her home for crying out loud! The police officer in question is an idiot! He should be put on unpaid suspension and given time to think about his "field interviewing" technique.

51 posted on 07/07/2007 4:36:58 PM PDT by mc5cents (Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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To: Bon mots

Incredible video clip. The cop did ask the “suspect” to get up and then shot him.

Where did this happen?


52 posted on 07/07/2007 4:37:10 PM PDT by secretagent
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To: mc5cents
What would have been the procedure if she had been a 35 year old “he”
53 posted on 07/07/2007 4:40:56 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: TheSpottedOwl

Those memories will be relived this year, damm delta smelt.


54 posted on 07/07/2007 4:42:40 PM PDT by 359Henrie
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To: TornadoAlley3
I think the appropriate remedy in this case for be for the cop’s supervisor to assign him a month of extra duty — one day a week, cleaning, raking, mowing, gardening and watering — the lawn of a certain citizen.

Properly supervised, of course. The citizen would be encouraged to watch him closely to make sure he did a good job and the officer of the watch would come by each Saturday to make sure the citizen was satisfied.

IMHO, this would be a lot better than having the old lady sue the officer — which would just incur more debt on the fellow citizens of the city. And, if this officer is indeed salvageable it will reinforce in his mind the truth that the police ARE INDEED the servants of the citizenry, not the other way around.

I know it will never happen — not these days — but it’s still a nice fantasy.

55 posted on 07/07/2007 4:45:56 PM PDT by Ronin (Bushed out!!! Another tragic victim of BDS. Now an official Fredhead!)
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To: CindyDawg
She should have to obey the law like anyone else. She had already been warned.

She had already been warned, but they didn't have her name?

The officer was probably sent to give her a ticket. It says she refused to give him her name and walked off.

She didn't walk off. She walked back through her *own* door way.

You know, I can't imagine getting physical with an old woman at her OWN home, over something as trivial as her OWN lawn or lack of it.

I don't like her playing the age card.

LOL!

56 posted on 07/07/2007 4:47:39 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: CindyDawg
What would have been the procedure if she had been a 35 year old “he”

Hmmmm. Don't know, but it was a 70 year old "she" in this case. Police are supposed to use "discrecion" in any case, I believe. Correct?

57 posted on 07/07/2007 4:48:21 PM PDT by mc5cents (Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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To: word_warrior_bob
he knew it was time for him to leave when all the new guys were these steroid-fueled, shaven head monsters

You mean like this guy?

This photo shows a police officer shooting a bear, moments before an animal control officer on the scene was about to shoot the bear with a tranquilizer gun.

There was a lot of controversy over the killing of this bear; witnesses on the scene said that contrary to police claims, the bear was quiet and not "about to charge."

Video here. If you watch it you'll see a lot of police CYA going on, but no evidence the bear was about to charge before the animal control officer could get him tranquilized.

58 posted on 07/07/2007 4:51:37 PM PDT by shhrubbery! (Max Boot: Joe Wilson has sold more whoppers than Burger King)
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To: mc5cents
Police are supposed to use "discretion" in any case

I'd bet they quit teaching that at police academies years ago.

Common sense in law enforcement seems rare nowadays.

59 posted on 07/07/2007 4:52:25 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: mt tom

As long as they save megee creek, and the trout I haven’t met this year.


60 posted on 07/07/2007 4:52:33 PM PDT by 359Henrie
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