Les Jones: Great Grandmother Charged with Not Watering Lawn

September 20, 2007

Everything's Illegal > Great Grandmother Charged with Not Watering Lawn

In July, Perry was cited by Officer James Flygare of the police's Neighborhood Preservation Unit for failing to water her lawn. Perry refused to give her name to the officer and, when Flygare tried to stop her from going back inside her house, she reportedly tripped and injured her nose.
She was arrested and taken to police station but released shortly afterwards.

An investigation by the state Department of Public Safety cleared Flygare of any wrongdoing, and city officials pressed charges against Perry on the landscape violation, a class C misdemeanor, and interfering with a police officer, a class B misdemeanor.

Why is the city regulating people's lawns? If a person wants to live somewhere with perfectly-manicured lawns they're free to buy a house in a subdivision with a homeowner's association and rules for that sort of thing. It's ridiculous to impose that sort of thing with city codes.

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Comments

All very good questions, Les, and one's that there are no real answers for.

The cops handing out tickets, and making arrests for the above actions are far too common news stories these days.

It's well passed any authority's power to outright imprison people for such. Pure madness. It needs to stop.

Posted by: -B at September 20, 2007