Woman Jailed for Overgrown Yard

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hipmamajen

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Woman Sentenced to 6 Hours in Jail for Overgrown Yard

I was feeling sorry for her, and righteously indignant on her behalf, until I saw that the statute she violated (many times) only requires you to keep your grass under 12 inches tall.

What?!? She's had her grass over a foot high for how many months? Sister, that's not a lawn, that's "amber waves of grain." Regular people don't need a combine and a baler when they do lawn maintenance.

I'm not even concerned about how unsightly that might be. To me, it seems like more of a safety issue. If zebras and gazelles can seek refuge in the veldt between your front door and the mailbox, the predators of the Serengeti aren't far behind. I'm surprised they haven't been losing family pets from around the neighborhood!

(I realize I'm being a little mean, because she is having a hard time right now. I just couldn't help myself with the "keep it under 12" of grass" thing. If I'm not in Heaven when you guys get there, it'll be because of stuff like this.)
 
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Lepplady

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A friend of mine has somebody that comes around from the city practically every week, and he literally measures the grass. If there's a weed by the fence that's too tall, he writes a ticket. This guy's way beyond being a stickler. He's completely anal. That's what I thought this article was about at first. But no.
She clearly could have kept it under a foot tall.
 
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Lepplady said:
A friend of mine has somebody that comes around from the city practically every week, and he literally measures the grass. If there's a weed by the fence that's too tall, he writes a ticket. This guy's way beyond being a stickler. He's completely anal. That's what I thought this article was about at first. But no.
She clearly could have kept it under a foot tall.
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I had to go back and read the article again. 12" - yep. That's what it said. I first read it as 1/2". If her grass is consistently that tall then I understand why she got citations. Did it ever occur to her to perhaps pay some neighbourhood kid to mow her lawn every other week at least? I know we all get busy but we figure something out.
 
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I was thinking she was an old lady with no help until I read the article. She has a husband, for pity's sake...so what if he goes to school and she works....most folks do. I cannot mow lawns or shovel snow right now...too ill for months to do any of that. Becky works ten hour shifts and comes home to do the lawn. We won an award for our front lawn for four years. She does not mind....she would be unhappy to have a crappy yard.
 
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Bryan James

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My Mom was an artist of note, and her yard was once fabulous. Southern Living magazine was going to do an article about her art and her landscaping.

Now we have a veritable jungle.

Luckily, we're mostly shielded from the neighbor'ses views...and most of them know we're hurting right now, so no official calls about the yard yet.

The way I see it, we are reducing our carbon footprint by letting nature flourish.
 
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swiftdog2.0

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When I was growing up our next door neighbor never mowed his lawn. Never. We referred to it as the jungle. The neighbors never called the lawn police on him though.

They asked him to mow it every once in awhile if you happened to catch him outside when he was sober. Would have been different if he had junk or trash in the yard, cars on blocks, sofas, etc. That I could see complaining to the authorities about. Was it unsightly? Yes. Is it worth sending someone to the pokey for? No.
 
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~Ally~

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Bryan James said:
Now we have a veritable jungle.

Luckily, we're mostly shielded from the neighbor'ses views...
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Your house is extremely secluded and shielded from your neighbours views so it isn't exactly going to be an issue. I live in a residential area where the houses are all within a few feet of each other so if a neighbours garden was as overgrown as the persons in this article it would be a visible eyesore. And something I would definitely complain about.
 
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Walter Oobleck

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Had a trouble spot in front of the house...leaky gas tank on the old truck, gravity, grass died. So I turned it all over, removed about six or seven five-gallon buckets of sod and dirt...small area maybe 4-5' x 18'...but right in front. Between the salt dropped on the road winter...that kills the grass, too...and whatnot. So...I seed it, drop some straw on it...rained enough so I don't bother watering too often...grass comes in nice and green. I cut it. Big mistake as that almost killed it...did in fact kill patches of the new grass...so, I scratch those surfaces up, seed again, straw...rain. Grass comes in green again and I decide the hail with it I'm not cutting it until I know it is established. Wife cut it Columbus Day...no work for her that day...with scissors. Heh! She's not big on lawnmowers...but the grass is shorter...and still green.

Snow now, that's another matter. Someone usually goes to Defcon Zulu and empties the missile silos over snow placement.
 
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