[Newsbot]

Title: Woman Sent To Jail For Overgrown Yard
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2014-10-18 08:00:43

[Freakinoldguy]

Something tells me there's more to this story than what we're hearing because judges don't just throw people in jail for not mowing their lawn.

I dug up the Lenoir City Bylaws and this is what the Property Maintenance bylaws stated:

$1:

13-107. Violations and penalty. Violations of this chapter shall subject
the offender to a penalty of up to five hundred dollars ($500) for each offense.
Each day a violation is allowed to continue shall constitute a separate offense.

http://www.mtas.tennessee.edu/public/mu ... E/code.pdf


She's in jail for non payment of her fines and not for her lack of yard maintenance something she failed to clarify when telling her story to the reporters.

All military families I know with or without kids kept their yards maintained while we were away on deployments. Hell, the American Military has a resource center the same as we do and if she couldn't do it or needed a little help she should have contacted them and they would have helped out.

This poor woman seems to have an excuse for everything about not doing her yard work and I guess the Judge like the City finally had enough of her bullshit and decided to send a message.

[Thanos]

Municipalities do things like this as much to raise revenue through fines as they do to punish bylaw breakers. Not that her excuses are valid. If her man's in the army then, given how tight military families are with each other, she could have asked for some help and one of the other wives or servicemen not on active deployment probably would have come over to do the yardwork for her. But the bureaucratic and legalistic heavyhandedness is a result of the city wanting their fine money. Just like "do not get between the Nazgul and his prey" sometimes people find out the hard way not to come between the city and their revenue.

[raydan]

"Overgrown yard"... nice euphemism.