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  • Pickled Petal Picker Avoids Peck of Trouble (Fuuny, funny article!)

    01/22/2003 7:19:31 AM PST · by NewHampshireDuo · 7 replies · 312+ views
    Portland (Maine) Press Herald ^ | 01/22/03 | Bill Nemitz
    The timing of his trial clearly helped. What jury in its right mind, after all, would sit down in the dead of winter and send a man to jail for picking a flower? "A lot of people thought this was a big joke," Henry Peters said Tuesday from his home in Rockland. "And it does seem kind of funny getting arrested for picking a flower."But tickled as he may be by last week's "not guilty" verdict in Knox County Superior Court, let's be clear about one thing. Peters, a 39-year-old boatbuilder, is still peeved and then some at police who...