Woman put in jail for being poor | |
BRIEF User ID: 8739975 ![]() 01/14/2012 07:55 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. Has nothing to do with feeling better. Are one of those dope smokers? 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 ![]() 01/14/2012 07:56 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... |
Desert Fox User ID: 8786935 ![]() 01/14/2012 07:56 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. It is sad, but it does hurt others, when their property goes down because of her messy yard. :TOMABANEFOX: It's more humane this way ya know, or burn on totem pole. Choice is yours. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1301819 ![]() 01/14/2012 07:56 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. Has nothing to do with feeling better. Are one of those dope smokers? |
wing-ed User ID: 1474169 ![]() 01/14/2012 07:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I had a county guy hassle me one time ! I got a pony and around here you have to get a pleasure pony permit now even though ponies have always been kept in this area ! The county guy said what are you going to do with that pony ! Knowing if I told him the grand kids would ride him He would want me to buy the pleasure pony permit ! Instead I told him I planned to eat the pony ! Looking at me in a disgusted manner he walked to his car ! Along the drive I had two grills and a smoker ! He looked at those and said what do you need so many cookers for ? I told him , have you ever cooked a pony ! He left , that was 3 years ago haven't seen him back but I did sell the pony ! Got tired of buying hay !! This is a true story !! Holy, holy,holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.Praise the one who gives you peace beyond all understanding Yes that scripture still sounds good ! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 8847695 ![]() 01/14/2012 07:57 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. Has nothing to do with feeling better. Are one of those dope smokers? the word around here is you enjoy anal scissoring with Scrump |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 7732614 ![]() 01/14/2012 07:58 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. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1031229 Damn rednecks! ^^^^^ precisely why I live in an HOA ^^^^^ |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1301819 ![]() 01/14/2012 07:59 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. It is sad, but it does hurt others, when their property goes down because of her messy yard. They don't peer out their windows and call the police and make things worse. |
BRIEF User ID: 8739975 ![]() 01/14/2012 07:59 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... You don't think she was warned and given a chance to clean up? LOL I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked. ![]() |
can of whoop ass User ID: 1776599 ![]() 01/14/2012 08:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | can of whoop ass |
BRIEF User ID: 8739975 ![]() 01/14/2012 08:00 PM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: BRIEF 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. Has nothing to do with feeling better. Are one of those dope smokers? the word around here is you enjoy anal scissoring with Scrump from the same crowd that smokes themselves into orbit everyday? LOL, I'm not surprised... 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: 8810722 ![]() 01/14/2012 08:02 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 She Will become homeless. If she doesn't clean up her yard, they will do it for her, and send her the bill. then when she can't pay, they'll take her to court and take the house. |
The Decider User ID: 1544142 ![]() 01/14/2012 08:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm with brief on this, although I assumed that he would be the type to keep "stuff" in his yard I live in TN and there is no shortage of rednex with shit in their yard Broken shit, scrap, junk but don't you dare call it junk in front of them because they will take great offense to the idea In their little minds having 3-4 rusty cars or lawnmowers makes them wealthy, it doesn't and it brings the whole community down Some counties here have passed a law making it illegal to have a sofa or recliner on your front porch, any indoor furniture is prohibited from being kept outside I'm sure some of you would disagree with this and say the law is overstepping and I agree with you, however, I really hate seeing peoples trash on their lawn or porch A sofa will be infested with mold and critters within weeks of being left outside but my fellow tennesseans are not smart enough to acknowledge that tuff call here, is it a crime to be a dumb dirty redneck? I say yes, if you choose to live in a nice neighborhood, you should have to help keep it nice If you do not want to keep things nice then move out to the sticks where nobody has to see your shit I'm with you on this one Brief, don't get used to it ![]() Doom on! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1301819 ![]() 01/14/2012 08:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm serious as all fuck...if my neighbor started collecting junk in his yard, I'd be pissed... You don't think she was warned and given a chance to clean up? LOL |
Shingen User ID: 899829 ![]() 01/14/2012 08:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 10 days in jail Costs the state over 1000 dollars. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1127413 #Policestatemath They should have just given her the $1000. Then she could have paid the fine and had and extra $520. The $520 is pure profit for the State! Didn't you know that they love when people break their "laws"! It's money in the bank! These sociopathic, statists cocksuckers even wrote 40,000 new ones last year alone, just so that even more people will break even more stupid fucking laws; which means even more profit for them! Welcome to their own personal profit machine! You people paid for it! You may as well enjoy it. "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 |
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ScrumpTheTexan![]() Forum Administrator User ID: 2691183 ![]() 01/14/2012 08:06 PM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | the word around here is you enjoy anal scissoring with Scrump from the same crowd that smokes themselves into orbit everyday? LOL, I'm not surprised... It's the homo-obsessed Aussie failtroll again man... 'his' name is Sister. Ignore it... it just gets gayer & gayer. I am a Christian. Christian does not equal doormat or pushover "I Have Sworn upon the Altar of God... Eternal Hostility against every form of Tyranny over the mind of man." -Thomas Jefferson, Sep. 23, 1800 ![]() The Election of Donald John Trump: [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] For previous Newsletters, click 'Scrump's News Letters' @ [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] |
BRIEF User ID: 8739975 ![]() 01/14/2012 08:06 PM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm with brief on this, although I assumed that he would be the type to keep "stuff" in his yard Quoting: The Decider I live in TN and there is no shortage of rednex with shit in their yard Broken shit, scrap, junk but don't you dare call it junk in front of them because they will take great offense to the idea In their little minds having 3-4 rusty cars or lawnmowers makes them wealthy, it doesn't and it brings the whole community down Some counties here have passed a law making it illegal to have a sofa or recliner on your front porch, any indoor furniture is prohibited from being kept outside I'm sure some of you would disagree with this and say the law is overstepping and I agree with you, however, I really hate seeing peoples trash on their lawn or porch A sofa will be infested with mold and critters within weeks of being left outside but my fellow tennesseans are not smart enough to acknowledge that tuff call here, is it a crime to be a dumb dirty redneck? I say yes, if you choose to live in a nice neighborhood, you should have to help keep it nice If you do not want to keep things nice then move out to the sticks where nobody has to see your shit I'm with you on this one Brief, don't get used to it ![]() Yeah, um thanks? I'd love to have crap all over my yard but, as a financial counselor, my clients may have doubts about my credentials if they have to walk around moldy couches and broken lawnmowers to get to the house. I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked. ![]() |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 7570540 ![]() 01/14/2012 08:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well...there's a little clutter and then there's just plain junk piled several feet high. Who the heck would want to live next to that mess? [link to charlotte.cbslocal.com] |
BRIEF User ID: 8739975 ![]() 01/14/2012 08:08 PM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: BRIEF I'm serious as all fuck...if my neighbor started collecting junk in his yard, I'd be pissed... You don't think she was warned and given a chance to clean up? LOL Not too shabby ;) I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked. ![]() |
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BRIEF User ID: 8739975 ![]() 01/14/2012 08:11 PM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well...there's a little clutter and then there's just plain junk piled several feet high. Who the heck would want to live next to that mess? Quoting: Faith [link to charlotte.cbslocal.com] Oh my good god damn! I had no idea it was that bad!! LOL I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked. ![]() |
Larimar User ID: 3204625 ![]() 01/14/2012 08:11 PM ![]() Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would never live in an hoa area way to restictive, it would seem like your renting from the hoa and your house is not yours to do what you want to do to it. I would not enjoy living next to someone with a bunch of crap outside in there yard.... but it is there yard to do what they want. I would put up a fence or trees so i would not have to see it. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 6289134 ![]() 01/14/2012 08:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: BRIEF 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. It is sad, but it does hurt others, when their property goes down because of her messy yard. They don't peer out their windows and call the police and make things worse. Exactly. But the concept of community is all but dead in the good ole states.. except in so called "ghettos" where many people will bust their asses to make sure their neighbors well being is of importance. (and i dont mean the damn drug slums, I mean the truly desolate people who strive daily just to feed themselves). |
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