Bloody nose for having a dry lawn
Betty Perry, 70, was arrested and her nose bloodied after an Orem officer confronted her at her front door about her dried-up lawn...When Perry refused to give her name and tried to walk inside to call her son, the officer tried to arrest her... According to a police news release, while she was struggling, she tripped and fell on her doorstop, cutting open the bridge of her nose...After being booked, supervisors... 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... Perry was taken to Timpanogos Regional Hospital and treated for her wounds. Besides the cut nose, she sustained bruises on her arms from the handcuffs. She said she was approached about the problem last year but didn't hear from officers again after a first warning
2 comments:
No way! I guess they take dried-up lawns pretty seriously in Orem.
Well it does seem extreme doesn't it? But I live in a small community township and they have lots of rules that the homeowners have to follow.
For instance a neighbor built a fence and one of the other neighbors saw it and reported it to the township because the fence didn't adhere to the rules. So the neighbor had to alter it so that it conformed to the rules.
So while the article did seem extreme I know that there are areas like this because I live in one!
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