An Orem, Utah grandmother hauled to jail like a recalcitrant dog…
…for failing to water her lawn:
A widow and grandma spent the morning in jail, arrested for refusing to give a policeman her name when he tried writing her a ticket for failing to water her yard. The woman hasn’t watered her lawn in more than a year, and the condition of her yard violates an Orem zoning ordinance.
Tonight, the woman says she is traumatized and shocked that she was hauled to jail, just because she says she can’t afford to water her lawn.
She’s lucky. In Eden Prairie, I think that’d put her under the property forfeiture law.
Excuse me???? We have watering BANS out here in the ‘burbs…..
LL
What LadyL said! Out in Woodbury, they’ll haul you to jail for watering on the wrong day!
Of course, city police never get carried away like this.
Oh, wait….
http://www.courttv.com/news/2007/0629/raid_ap.html?cnn=yes
Listening to another local talk host, he mentioned the situation in Woodbury. They don’t care if you water too much, they’ll just charge you 5X the going rate for water if you do. “Too much” is directed at people (in the dreaded “McMansions”) who have underground sprinkler systems who want green grass in their yard.
But that said, I’d STILL rather live in the suburbs than the city. One suburb’s overzealousness at trying to conserve water and stick it to the “rich”, is FAR outdone by the nuttyness in Rybak’s and Coleman’s politburos.