70-year-old Woman Arrested For Having a Brown Lawn


	70-year-old Woman Arrested For Having a Brown Lawn

Perkalicious11

9-19-2007 4:52 PM

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home, yard, lawn, water, sprinkler

Perkalicious11 says:

unbelievable

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9-21-2007 4:36 AM

myworkisdonehere

hahaha. i'm not sure why this is funny, just that there's a sense of the completely ridiculous here.

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