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Woman put in jail for being poor | |
| Stu Offer Upgrade  User ID: 3643288  United States01/14/2012 07:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1031229 United States01/14/2012 07:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They ought to jail all of my fucking neighbors then because everyone single one of them except for me and tow others have junk cars and shit piled all over their yards front and back. We're talking scrap metal, old cars and trucks that don't run. wood piles, Wood barrels, lawn mowers, shingles, concrete blocks, etc... and no, they don't clean it up,either. they're some of the worst and messiest people you have ever seen. Damn rednecks! |
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| BRIEF User ID: 8739975 United States01/14/2012 07:28 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Woman jailed for 10 days because she's too poor to pay fine Quoting: Stu TAGS: Crisis, USA, Economy The recession ruined Linda Ruggles’ business and she has been selling plasma twice a week since to make ends meet. The blood bank couldn’t bail her out from behind bars though, which is where she ended up after she couldn’t pay a $480 fine. That fine, say cops in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, came about because Linda Ruggles had a messy yard. Barely getting by in recent years, Ruggles, 53, has been stockpiling scraps to pawn off in order to make her bill payments. In her yard rests a pile of metal that she routinely cashes in to get by. Elsewhere outside her house is a shack of shingles. Paying to have her roof fixed, often a job that comes at a cost of several thousand dollars, has been out of the question. So when cops ticketed her $480 for having a messy yard, Ruggles wasn’t exactly prepared to pay it. [link to rt.com] If she wants to run a junkyard she needs to find a place zoned for it...sounds like she bought too much house and can't afford to live there... I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked.  |
| theCOOCH User ID: 8831646 United States01/14/2012 07:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Starbrite User ID: 1085425 United States01/14/2012 07:32 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Obviously with all of her "yard ornaments" she did not live in a gated community. . . .Now she does. Only in America. Rise from the ashes;Liting a flame which shall smoulder until it reaches the intensity of an inferno leaving a path of scorched earth in its wake, henceforth, in a new season a garden of flowers shall bloom. (Starbrite) Life is a process;Enjoy the drive as much as the destination. (Starbrite) We have actually made contact;The secret is embedded as deep as the alchemy spells from the Dark Ages, and as spiritually enligthening as the dawn of the Renaissance. (Starbrite) LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY, DO NOT HATE! (Starbrite) www.Starcopia.com www.footprintsintheshiftingsand.wordpress.com The Eclectic Muse |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1195058 United States01/14/2012 07:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 8626202 United States01/14/2012 07:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Woman jailed for 10 days because she's too poor to pay fine Quoting: Stu TAGS: Crisis, USA, Economy The recession ruined Linda Ruggles’ business and she has been selling plasma twice a week since to make ends meet. The blood bank couldn’t bail her out from behind bars though, which is where she ended up after she couldn’t pay a $480 fine. That fine, say cops in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, came about because Linda Ruggles had a messy yard. Barely getting by in recent years, Ruggles, 53, has been stockpiling scraps to pawn off in order to make her bill payments. In her yard rests a pile of metal that she routinely cashes in to get by. Elsewhere outside her house is a shack of shingles. Paying to have her roof fixed, often a job that comes at a cost of several thousand dollars, has been out of the question. So when cops ticketed her $480 for having a messy yard, Ruggles wasn’t exactly prepared to pay it. [link to rt.com] If she wants to run a junkyard she needs to find a place zoned for it...sounds like she bought too much house and can't afford to live there... Inflammatory troll is inflammatory... |
| BRIEF User ID: 8739975 United States01/14/2012 07:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Woman jailed for 10 days because she's too poor to pay fine Quoting: Stu TAGS: Crisis, USA, Economy The recession ruined Linda Ruggles’ business and she has been selling plasma twice a week since to make ends meet. The blood bank couldn’t bail her out from behind bars though, which is where she ended up after she couldn’t pay a $480 fine. That fine, say cops in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, came about because Linda Ruggles had a messy yard. Barely getting by in recent years, Ruggles, 53, has been stockpiling scraps to pawn off in order to make her bill payments. In her yard rests a pile of metal that she routinely cashes in to get by. Elsewhere outside her house is a shack of shingles. Paying to have her roof fixed, often a job that comes at a cost of several thousand dollars, has been out of the question. So when cops ticketed her $480 for having a messy yard, Ruggles wasn’t exactly prepared to pay it. [link to rt.com] If she wants to run a junkyard she needs to find a place zoned for it...sounds like she bought too much house and can't afford to live there... Inflammatory troll is inflammatory... I'm serious as all fuck...if my neighbor started collecting junk in his yard, I'd be pissed... I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked. |
| midisandy User ID: 864437 United States01/14/2012 07:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| BRIEF User ID: 8739975 United States01/14/2012 07:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am astonished at the number of uncaring responses to this woman's predicament.....All I can say is "You should hope that you don't find yourself in her unwelcome position. No one will care." Quoting: midisandy My argument is that she should have bought less home, she probably assumed she would never lose her job and bought a place she can't afford. I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 8830741 United States01/14/2012 07:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1436120 United States01/14/2012 07:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Woman jailed for 10 days because she's too poor to pay fine Quoting: Stu TAGS: Crisis, USA, Economy The recession ruined Linda Ruggles’ business and she has been selling plasma twice a week since to make ends meet. The blood bank couldn’t bail her out from behind bars though, which is where she ended up after she couldn’t pay a $480 fine. That fine, say cops in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, came about because Linda Ruggles had a messy yard. Barely getting by in recent years, Ruggles, 53, has been stockpiling scraps to pawn off in order to make her bill payments. In her yard rests a pile of metal that she routinely cashes in to get by. Elsewhere outside her house is a shack of shingles. Paying to have her roof fixed, often a job that comes at a cost of several thousand dollars, has been out of the question. So when cops ticketed her $480 for having a messy yard, Ruggles wasn’t exactly prepared to pay it. [link to rt.com] If she wants to run a junkyard she needs to find a place zoned for it...sounds like she bought too much house and can't afford to live there... Inflammatory troll is inflammatory... I'm serious as all fuck...if my neighbor started collecting junk in his yard, I'd be pissed... Good thing you donot live beside me then, what I do with my place is my problem.  |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 8799897 United States01/14/2012 07:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| BRIEF User ID: 8739975 United States01/14/2012 07:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: BRIEF If she wants to run a junkyard she needs to find a place zoned for it...sounds like she bought too much house and can't afford to live there... Inflammatory troll is inflammatory... I'm serious as all fuck...if my neighbor started collecting junk in his yard, I'd be pissed... Good thing you donot live beside me then, what I do with my place is my problem. I hear ya Fred, tell Grady I said Hi... I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 8830741 United States01/14/2012 07:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | She got her job back and after released for 10 days, neighbors started helping (but no-one offered before when someone called the code enforcers). I liked this statement she made: “It didn’t change the situation,” she adds. “I just don’t think being handcuffed, photographed and fingerprinted is really a behavior-modification tool to keep me from being poor.” |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1127413 United States01/14/2012 07:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Shingen User ID: 899829 United States01/14/2012 07:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's what happens when you let control freak sociopaths write the laws, own the prisons, and force you at gun-point to pay for the whole fucking mess! It's only going to get worse. "Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based of five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, or county commissioners." - Edward Abbey "But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist." -Lysander Spooner "If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skin into their clothing, and if we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order." - Firefly |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 8853001 United States01/14/2012 07:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 6289134 United States01/14/2012 07:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am astonished at the number of uncaring responses to this woman's predicament.....All I can say is "You should hope that you don't find yourself in her unwelcome position. No one will care." Quoting: midisandy My argument is that she should have bought less home, she probably assumed she would never lose her job and bought a place she can't afford. I can see your point Brief, but we don't KNOW that. Nor do we know the circumstances of her life. Nor do YOU know that a similar fate could not befall you. However, personally, I am done paying fines for anything. If I do something "wrong" they can send me to jail, where I will not pay a damn dime to a corrupt system. No lawyers, no fines, no court costs. And, people, please realize that the public is now paying to house and feed this woman for 10 days and paying her fine for her. A fine for a ridiculous "crime". A messy yard is not the end of the world, and it harms none. Its not as though it were piles of food scrap and causing a pest nuisance. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1295588 United States01/14/2012 07:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| BRIEF User ID: 8739975 United States01/14/2012 07:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am astonished at the number of uncaring responses to this woman's predicament.....All I can say is "You should hope that you don't find yourself in her unwelcome position. No one will care." Quoting: midisandy My argument is that she should have bought less home, she probably assumed she would never lose her job and bought a place she can't afford. I can see your point Brief, but we don't KNOW that. Nor do we know the circumstances of her life. Nor do YOU know that a similar fate could not befall you. However, personally, I am done paying fines for anything. If I do something "wrong" they can send me to jail, where I will not pay a damn dime to a corrupt system. No lawyers, no fines, no court costs. And, people, please realize that the public is now paying to house and feed this woman for 10 days and paying her fine for her. A fine for a ridiculous "crime". A messy yard is not the end of the world, and it harms none. Its not as though it were piles of food scrap and causing a pest nuisance. Shitty neighborhoods generally don't have rules...without more info all we can do is speculate. I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1301819  Sweden01/14/2012 07:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am astonished at the number of uncaring responses to this woman's predicament.....All I can say is "You should hope that you don't find yourself in her unwelcome position. No one will care." Quoting: midisandy My argument is that she should have bought less home, she probably assumed she would never lose her job and bought a place she can't afford. |
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