This has to be one of the most moronic things I've heard lately, and with all the perpetual stupidity floating around out there, that's really saying something.
What a terrible waste of tax-payer dollars.
Should Woman Go to Jail Over Front Yard Veggie Garden?
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2011/07/13 15:04:49
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Of all the silly reasons to do time, this one might be the silliest.
Julie Bass of Oak Park, Mich., has been charged with growing a "vegetable garden in front yard space." If convicted, she could spend up to 93 days in jail, ABC News reports.
"Sometimes we laugh because it seems so silly and sometimes we cry because it's so pathetic," she told ABCNews.com.
Bass' pre-trial hearing is set for July 26. But her attorney Solomon Radner does not think she'll end up in the slammer over squash.
"Michelle Obama plants vegetables on White House front lawn. I don't think the jury is going to think that it's suitable for the White House, but it's not suitable for Oak Park," he told ABC.
Bass says she received approval from both neighbors and city officials in her Detroit suburb (who knew you even had to get approval for such a thing?)
The Oak Park city screening and landscaping ordinance states, "All unpaved portions of the [screening and landscaping] site shall be planted with grass ground cover, shrubbery, or other suitable live plant material."
Radner also noted an exception listed in the city ordinance that specifically allows vegetable gardens: "Exempted from the provisions of this article, inclusive, are flower gardens, plots of shrubbery, vegetable gardens and small grain plots."
So what's "unsuitable" about Bass's garden? Well, an Oak Park city councilman allegedly received two complaints that it resembles a "New Orleans cemetery."
What do you think? Should Bass go to the pokey over produce?
Julie Bass of Oak Park, Mich., has been charged with growing a "vegetable garden in front yard space." If convicted, she could spend up to 93 days in jail, ABC News reports.
"Sometimes we laugh because it seems so silly and sometimes we cry because it's so pathetic," she told ABCNews.com.
Bass' pre-trial hearing is set for July 26. But her attorney Solomon Radner does not think she'll end up in the slammer over squash.
"Michelle Obama plants vegetables on White House front lawn. I don't think the jury is going to think that it's suitable for the White House, but it's not suitable for Oak Park," he told ABC.
Bass says she received approval from both neighbors and city officials in her Detroit suburb (who knew you even had to get approval for such a thing?)
The Oak Park city screening and landscaping ordinance states, "All unpaved portions of the [screening and landscaping] site shall be planted with grass ground cover, shrubbery, or other suitable live plant material."
Radner also noted an exception listed in the city ordinance that specifically allows vegetable gardens: "Exempted from the provisions of this article, inclusive, are flower gardens, plots of shrubbery, vegetable gardens and small grain plots."
So what's "unsuitable" about Bass's garden? Well, an Oak Park city councilman allegedly received two complaints that it resembles a "New Orleans cemetery."
What do you think? Should Bass go to the pokey over produce?
Read More: http://abcnews.go.com/US/vegetable-garden-brings-c...
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Melizmatic 2011/07/13 16:28:35No, that's ridiculous
+15GTFO of here with that nonsense.
This has to be one of the most moronic things I've heard lately, and with all the perpetual stupidity floating around out there, that's really saying something.
What a terrible waste of tax-payer dollars.
to go to jail.
Unfortunately their are some people traumatized in our society and become a powerful fringe element. Instead of handling this situation in proper neighborly fashion the police were called in. Why didn't the police stop it there and say this is not a police matter? I think the police have better things to do and I find it hard to believe that they wanted to charge the lady.
I can't understand how we can have so much and yet have so little. The real question is why is our society becoming so in-sensitized around us that this outrageous dysfunctional responses are accepted and interpreted as "normal" or familiar to us. The lady has to pay a lawyer and be represented. Who has the money for that? To bad that all we can do is rant and not know how to help her cause!!
Sorry if you believed that I was ridiculing the lady or taking her situation lightly. Thanks for your feedback I'll try to learn from your comments,opinions, insights and valued experiences.
Yours Sincerely,
Barbara