OREM, Utah (AP) -- A 70-year-old woman arrested in a dispute over her brown lawn pleaded not guilty Tuesday, then stood by as a Los Angeles lawyer waved handcuffs for the cameras outside court.
Betty Perry is charged with resisting arrest and failing to maintain her landscaping, both misdemeanors.
She was arrested July 6 after failing to give her name to a police officer who visited her home.
During a struggle, Perry fell and injured her nose. She spent more than an hour in a holding cell before police released her.
I knew someone who's granddad painted his lawn green because he wasn't allowed to water it.
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So they roughed up a 70 year old woman because her grass wasnt green enough, that should send a message to all those other misguided senior citizens that lawn cares a very serious matter and will be dealt with as such.
The ones who should be fined are those that live in the West and squander the precious commodity of water on their lawns. It's upside down to have entire states dry as a tinder box while city residents have lawns that are the product of sprinklers running several hours a day.
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Wonder that they did not taser herfor so flagrant a violation of the law!!! No wonder our streets are flooded with drugswith the cops doing lawn order crap.
They tazered this one.........................to death
A Clay County woman's family said it's seeking justice after their loved one died shortly after being shocked 10 times with Taser guns during a confrontation with police.
The family of 56-year-old Emily Delafield said it would take the Green Cove Springs Police Department to court, according to a WJXT-TV report.
In April 2006, officers with the police department said they were called to a disturbance at a home in the 400 block of Harrison Street just before 5 p.m.
In a 911 call made to the Green Cove Springs, Delafield can be heard telling a dispatcher that she believed she was in danger:
Dispatcher: And what's the problem?
Delafield: My sister is waiting on my property.
Dispatcher: Your what?
Delafield: My sister (inaudible) is on my property trying to harm me.
Officers said they arrived to find Delafield in a wheelchair, armed with two knives and a hammer. Police said the woman was swinging the weapons at family members and police.
Within an hour of her call to 911, Delafield, a wheelchair-bound woman documented to have mental illness, was dead.
Family attorney Rick Alexander said Delafield's death could have been prevented and that there are four things that jump out at him about the case.
"One, she's in a wheelchair. Two, she's schizophrenic. Three, they're using a Taser on a person that's in a wheelchair, and then four is that they tasered her 10 times for a period of like two minutes," Alexander said.
According to a police report, one of the officers used her Taser gun nine times for a total of 160 seconds and the other officer discharged his Taser gun once for a total of no more than five seconds.
A medical examiner found Delafield died from hypertensive heart disease and cited the Taser gun shock as a contributing factor, the report said. On her death certificate, the medical examiner ruled Delafield's death a homicide.
The family said it plans to sue the Green Coves Springs Police Department now that it has all the reports regarding their loved one's death.
"We're going to try to compensate the estate and the family and try to get justice," Alexander said.
He said he believes the evidence weighs heavily in favor of Delafield's family and that justice will be served.
"I think that this evidence is going to show, along with some of the evidence we've collected outside of here, that there is no reason Emily Delafield should have died that day," Alexander said.
He said he plans to file a notice to sue sometime before the end of the year.
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There was a homeowner here in Aurora CO. this summer that got fined for using his water twice.Someone noticed his lawn was greener/healthier than all the others and the truth came out that he wascaptureing and using thegrey water from his bath tubs and cloths washing machine and then pumping that water onto his lawn. There were outdoor watering restrictions in place, SO his lawn ended up looking better than everyone elses. He was fined and ordered to STOP captureing and re-using his water.
The city said that he only paid them to use the water once, NOT twice and that the treatment plant relied on the water that he used to maintain effluent gallons/day.
They preach around these parts to "save" water, or to use it wisely, BUT apparently using it twice is being too smart.
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water your lawn or else ?
