70yo great-grandma bloodied, cuffed, arrested for...

pdxkevin · 09-19-2007, 10:52 AM

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Great-grandma Betty pleads innocent to resisting arrest over dead grass
OREM - Betty Perry pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges she failed to water her lawn and resisted arrest when an officer attempted to cite her.

Perry appeared in 4th District Court in Orem to enter her plea in a case prominent Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred described as a gross injustice.

"Today, law enforcement in Orem has enshrined itself as the laughing stock of our country by prosecuting a 70-year-old great-grandmother for allegedly not watering her lawn," Allred said. "This ill-conceived action ensures Orem's law enforcement authorities first place in the [Guinness World Records] for stupidity."

Perry's next appearance will be on Oct. 11 for a pre-trial conference.

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...

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Sounds like some great press for that town! on the bright sidee they didn't use the tazers.

STRUTTIN-1 · 09-19-2007, 10:57 AM

:frown:

They would use more than a tazer on me if they saw my grass.Thats pathetic.Shows you what law inforcement do when there is a lake of crime.They no longer do the donut thing.

1bigfish · 09-19-2007, 11:05 AM

I find it very interesting that you quote 80% of the article and stopped just before this sentence.

"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."

Was there a reason you left this out?

:lurk:

jvp · 09-19-2007, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by 1bigfish

I find it very interesting that you quote 80% of the article and stopped just before this sentence.

"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."

Was there a reason you left this out?

:lurk:

possibly because 99.99999% that is what they officers behavior is found to be. let us not for get a 70 year old woman "fell to the ground". she should have gone to the hospital not the jail.

pdxkevin · 09-19-2007, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by 1bigfish

I find it very interesting that you quote 80% of the article and stopped just before this sentence...

Was there a reason you left this out?

:lurk:

I never quote 100% of any online article/story/etc.. I only clip the first bit and if anyone is interested to read the rest they may hit the link for the source.

Chromaflage · 09-19-2007, 11:46 AM

There's an entire forest behind that tree.

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Originally Posted by 1bigfish

I find it very interesting that you quote 80% of the article and stopped just before this sentence.

"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."

Was there a reason you left this out?

:lurk:

1bigfish · 09-19-2007, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by pdxkevin

I never quote 100% of any online article/story/etc.. I only clip the first bit and if anyone is interested to read the rest they may hit the link for the source.

I can accept that answer. Just wanted to know if there was a reason.

Thanks

Toledofish · 09-19-2007, 12:13 PM

Just think if she had let the rose bushes die along with the grass bet she would have got tazered then. The missing part of the article makes the city look even worse. Must be nice to have a city budget and a low enough crime rate that they can police peoples lawns.

Cornbread · 09-19-2007, 12:20 PM

Gloria Allred is her lawyer? Granny must have some serious cash although Allred has been known to do stuff for free if the media attention is high enough.

Just_learning · 09-19-2007, 12:30 PM

meh- she probably deserved it. i hope they lock her up and throw the book at her. Maybe her and OJ can share a cell.

jaxflyfish · 09-19-2007, 12:41 PM

I lived in Orem for a while. My guess is that this arrest was the result of several weeks of around the clock survelliance. Probably hundreds of hours of detective work as well.

This is probably the most serious crime they have prosecuted in the last 4 years....

It is one of the reasons there isn't a CSI Orem.......I can see it now....I am examining this blade of grass under a microscope and i am telling you it is dead......"BOOK THE GRANDMA!!!"

roadsend · 09-19-2007, 04:51 PM

Brown grass - pretty serious stuff.
Do they have capital punishment for failure to water fruit and nut trees?
Perhaps all the fruits and nuts are employed by the city.

I am soooooo glad I don't live anywhere near that crazy place.

rowmanholiday · 09-19-2007, 05:27 PM

At the very least, she should be commended for not using more water than necessary. Especially in a state that could use all the water it can get.

Bobberman · 09-19-2007, 06:02 PM

Hopefully one of her sister wives will testify to her innocence

Clyde · 09-19-2007, 06:08 PM

Anyone still wonder why there is a meth problem?

Last Cast King · 09-19-2007, 07:14 PM

This reminds me of a song, hopefully they don't send her to the group W bench...

I want tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stop signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars, being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of cop equipment that they had hanging around the police officer's station. They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to mention the aerial photography.

SteelheadBum2 · 09-19-2007, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Toledofish

Just think if she had let the rose bushes die along with the grass bet she would have got tazered then. The missing part of the article makes the city look even worse. Must be nice to have a city budget and a low enough crime rate that they can police peoples lawns.

Crazy officers if you ask me. I'm glad our law enforcement spends it's money effort like this. If she did not water that rose bush I hope they hang her high! Grass abusers are the scum of this earth...

Seefood Man · 09-19-2007, 09:22 PM

This is really happening in our country

Unreal

Sweet Melissa · 09-19-2007, 10:09 PM

Did a bit of a search on the whole thing. Seems as though some of her neighbors considered her a "nuisance." Sounds like the police had visited her before, for lack of upkeep on her property, which her neighbors had volunteered to help with.

Not really sure why I just wasted 10 minutes of my life doing that.

My personal reward for not reading "People" magazine, maybe.

Tilla · 09-20-2007, 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Seefood Man

This is really happening in our country

Unreal

Incorrect, this happened in Utah.

Cohodependent · 09-21-2007, 02:01 AM

I am shocked that she was not shot for resisting...

And of course they did not find any fault in the actions of the police officer. They never do...

fish_on · 09-21-2007, 07:16 AM

don't be so fast to let the old people off so easy. Old folks can be very difficult, maybe locking her up will save others the trouble of dealing with her.

bassin · 09-21-2007, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by fish_on

don't be so fast to let the old people off so easy. Old folks can be very difficult, maybe locking her up will save others the trouble of dealing with her.

Hey there buddy, I resemble that remark. Just ask my daughter.

CATCH AND EAT · 09-21-2007, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Cohodependent

I am shocked that she was not shot for resisting...

And of course they did not find any fault in the actions of the police officer. They never do...

It was not in Portland

STRUTTIN-1 · 09-21-2007, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by rowmanholiday

At the very least, she should be commended for not using more water than necessary. Especially in a state that could use all the water it can get.

I thought there was a water shortage?Also saved the envirement by not useing her lawnmower.If she watered would she then citied for waisting water?

pdxkevin · 09-21-2007, 03:17 PM

I'd be tempted to spray paint/die the grass to a dark green color.

retiredgal · 09-21-2007, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by fish_on

don't be so fast to let the old people off so easy. Old folks can be very difficult, maybe locking her up will save others the trouble of dealing with her.

Careful there "Junior"! I'm gettin close to her age meself?
Old age and treachery will win everytime, I think? LOL:grin:

Only in America...................

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Elkhunter · 09-22-2007, 07:35 AM

She got what was coming to her! Follow the rules or pay the price

lor · 09-22-2007, 06:28 PM

Its sad things had to go to this level.
Keeping a green yard in the summer isn't exactly free, its cost a bit to maintain that turf.

I know my great grandparent wouldn't have had the funds to waste money on grass. Good thing they lived in places without these type of laws.

Dave G · 09-22-2007, 10:49 PM

If the policy is water your grass, then water your grass. Granny got what was coming to her. If it was a young person doing that, I bet the granny would be the first one to call the police. Now, I am not a granny basher, but since I am on a roll. Here is one that should warrant some jail time. I am in the casino with several thousand others and there is granny in the food line yulping about the prices, that is fine. I do that my self...But then it comes out, they say in the senior voice, "I'M ON A FIXED INCOME" My advice, GET THE HECK OUT OF THE CASINO!!!!!!!!!!