Woman arrested for refusing to water lawn

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2-9-2008 1:07 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/42040156-b11d-4fae-9f84-971c82858940/980D9755-5D7E-4D1F-8211-17F13E9ADAE9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_fe_st/odd_lousy_lawn" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_fe_st/odd_lousy_lawn" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_fe_st/odd_lousy_lawn">
                        OREM, Utah - When 70-year-old Betty Perry was accused of neglecting her lawn, she became defiant.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_fe_st/odd_lousy_lawn"><P>Perry was arrested, handcuffed and briefly jailed in July for declining a ticket for failing to water her lawn.</p> <P>She agreed on Friday to resolve her case by pleading guilty to a disorderly conduct charge and paying a $100 fine. She also faces six months of probation.</p> <P>Perry was scheduled to go to trial Monday on a more serious charge of resisting arrest for refusing to give her name, accept a citation or allow herself to be handcuffed on her front steps.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_fe_st/odd_lousy_lawn">She ends up with a sentence that is very minimal and shouldn't intrude terribly on her day-to-day life,"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_fe_st/odd_lousy_lawn"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/6724F373-08D3-4AA2-8A49-426D3E1DCA6A" alt="Betty Perry, left, and her attorney Gloria Allred walk into Utah's Fourth District Court  to appear before a judge Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007, in Orem, Utah. Perry, 70, was arrested and booked into jail on July 6, for refusing to maintain her lawn and resisting arrest. Perry agreed on Friday Feb. 8, 2008 to resolve her case by pleading guilty to a disorderly conduct charge and paying a $100 fine. She also faces six months of probation.  (AP Photo/George Frey/FILE)" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/980D9755-5D7E-4D1F-8211-17F13E9ADAE9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

valann 47 says:

I can't believe this, we would get arrested if we did water our lawns.

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