Farva: It's powdered sugar.
Police Chief Grady: The lice hate the sugar.
Farva: [deadpanning] It's delicious.
Posted on 09/20/2007 4:29:27 PM PDT by decimon
BARROW COUNTY, Ga. -- A Barrow County woman says an off-duty deputy handcuffed and had her strip-searched because of a simple dispute over a power line.
“My life has never been the same since. I’m having a very hard time with it,” said Sue Worley.
A farm in Hoschton in Barrow County has been home to 60-year-old Worley all her life.
Late last year, a letter from the Georgia Transmission Corporation told her a 230 Kilovolt power line was going to go through her property. When surveyors showed up, Worley said she went down the road to talk. She said she didn’t threaten anyone, but the Barrow County deputy working with the surveyors didn’t see it that way -- the deputy called for backup.
“I saw two sheriff’s cars drive up,” said Worley. She was handcuffed, arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
“I was in the car and I went all the way to the jail handcuffed,” she said. Worley was booked into the jail, patted down and strip searched.
“She sprayed me down with lice spray. It was so humiliating,” Worley said. “They made a criminal out of me.”
The charges were dropped, but Worley and her lawyer are suing the Georgia Transmission Company.
“It’s just pure, old-fashioned intimidation. They want people’s land and they don’t want to pay for it,” said Worley's lawyer, Don Evans. “They’re going to set their power poles wherever they want and if anybody gives them any lip, they’ll put you in jail.”
She and her lawyer said they’re suing, not just for her, but for other Georgians facing the threat of eminent domain and what they see as loss of property rights.
“I just don’t see how this could happen in a land of freedom, but we don’t have freedom anymore because people can just do anything they want to,” said Worley.
Project H.O.P.E. -- Homeowners Opposing Power Line Encroachment -- said Worley's case shows the need for the governor and legislature to draw stronger citizen-friendly laws to prevent what it calls, "preferential treatment," for power companies.
A spokesperson for the Georgia Transmission Corporation told Channel 2 they had hired a deputy because they'd had some subtle threats from other residents in the area.
Right now, it looks like the power line will go up either late next year or in early 2009.
Hillary, Helen Thomas, Lynne Stewart, Barbara Boxer, and others know that they will never be strip searched. After all, ewwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!
Good job protecting your rights. There has to be a fair agreement. The lines have to be ran, and the property owner has to be treated fairly.
Maybe it is the SOP of this particular jail, or even of many jails, but it's not SOP for intake into ALL jails.
Don't ask me how I know.
Farva: It's powdered sugar.
Police Chief Grady: The lice hate the sugar.
Farva: [deadpanning] It's delicious.
However, the fact that they create AC is what drives the need for solid-state rectifiers to go with the regulators to provide DC that can be stored in a battery.
You are 100% correct. I have a 5-foot easement on the far edge of my property. When a fire broke out 1/2 mile away in the adjoining woods, do you think the fire trucks used the public fire lane? Noooo, they used not just the easement on my property, but my entire back yard, leaving deep ruts and breaking down my herb garden and wall. The grass has never recovered in one area, despite reseeding, due to the weight of the trucks making the ground so hard. Guess I should have sued for a foot-deep rototill and a complete resodding, but I try to be cooperative. I, too, am an old lady, and I too, was threatened with arrest when I questioned the driver of an unmarked fire jeep from an entirely different township rode past 3 feet from my back door for a fire 1/2 mile away into the woods, so far you couldn't even smell it.
New Jersey being what it is, the whole extortion thing just sort of went away. I don't remember what the landowner got. But I really doubt that this Governor tried this trick out of the blue, without knowing how often it had worked on smaller landowners by less prominent politicians.
Let's not forget the politically unfavorable appearance of the property owner here. In our local area, a cellphone tower was supposed to go up near the all-minority high school, but outraged parents pressured the Democrat local government and have now stopped that. The next step would have been getting Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to put this grave injustice and oppression by white people onto their to-do list.
I’ve probably read more books this month then you’ll read all year.
I think the important thing in an "I'm more literate than you" pissing contest is to make sure you don't have any spelling or grammar mistakes in the posts where you are doing it. :)
And how did she say it? If she was screaming like a banshee and acting aggressive and out of control, then there was a reason to arrest her for disorderly conduct. If she was relatively calm (meaning she could do some yelling without being out of control), then they certainly shouldn't have arrested her.
I do think the strip search and lice spray was over the line, but perhaps that is SOP for all arrests.
I think a strip search should be mandatory even for a parking ticket. :)
“Woman Says She Was Strip-Searched After Power Line Dispute”
Did they find it?
It could be that what the lady is calling a strip search was the jail taking her clothing and issuing her jail coveralls or whatever they wear.
Well, that sucks! I’m glad you got more out of your house than you thought you would, though.
I'm with you here...I've chased county surveyors and private ones of my land in MD and CA several times. Same thing with those interested in doing "nature surveys". They can be tenacious, one group had a private security gaurd who said he was there "to make sure they were not harrassed". I pointed out that he was trespassing with a gun and that felony charges would follow his arrest. He was not pleased as I ran his charges off.
I strongly advice anyone in this situation to have someone nearby with a video camera when talking to the power company.
This is becoming the norm when dealing with any government or quasi government agency. There has been a lot of discission here lately about the Brett Darrow who got a cop fired by recording the threats hurled at him.
Great story. Good for you!
If they put up a power line over my objections, I set up a parallel line and steal power through induction. They complain? Keep your magnetic fields off of my property.
” I think the important thing in an “I’m more literate than you” pissing contest is to make sure you don’t have any spelling or grammar mistakes in the posts where you are doing it. :)”
No pissing contest. I didn’t appreciate his snide comments that failed to add value to the discussion. These forums are not a doctoral thesis. Add to the discussion or move on.
ROFLOL!! Two bad its to long for a taglyne!! /sarc off
Seriously, it's my pet peeve on FR... I'm thinking of doing a thread just on the proper use of "it's" vs. "its" alone.
>>What a pathetic excuse for journalism.
Conservatively, I’d say we could say that for 90%-98% of the MSM stories out there.
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