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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6282348.stm

 

A 70-year-old US woman has been left bruised and bloody after an unexpected clash with police who came to caution her for not watering her lawn.

 

Trouble flared when Utah pensioner Betty Perry, 70, refused to give her name after being upbraided because her garden breached local regulations.

 

She says the officer hit her with handcuffs, cutting her nose, although police insist she slipped and fell.

 

Ms Perry said she was "distraught" after the incident.

 

 

He's just trying to cover his tracks, as far as I'm concerned

Betty Perry

 

She denied accusations she was resisting arrest, maintaining that she only turned to go inside to call her son to fix the confusing dispute.

 

"I tried to sit down and get away from him [the police officer]," she told Utah newspaper the Daily Herald.

 

"I don't know what he's doing. I said: 'What are you doing?' And he hit me with those handcuffs in my face," she said.

 

"He's just trying to cover his tracks, as far as I'm concerned."

 

Set free

 

The officer had judged that Ms Perry's "sadly neglected and dying landscape" breached an Orem city guideline and was attempting to issue a formal caution when the 70-year-old was injured.

 

She was treated in a local hospital for the cut to her nose and for other bruises before being taken to jail.

 

But she was let go when police realised there were "other ways" of finding out her identity without jailing her, a police spokesman said

 

The arresting officer has not been named but has been placed on administrative leave, he added.

 

Ms Perry, who says she has never had a run-in with police in the past, has been offered help by local church leaders to clean up her garden.

 

"I'm very distraught over all this," she said.

 

"I can't believe this happened. Do you ever just wish you could start your day over and it would all be different?"

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The Clash are one of the greatest bands ever to grace this sweet Earth. You should feel privileged to have one of their songs looping within your brain.

They didnt write it

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The Clash are one of the greatest bands ever to grace this sweet Earth. You should feel privileged to have one of their songs looping within your brain.

They didnt write it

But they made it theirs with their thrilling cover.

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The Clash are one of the greatest bands ever to grace this sweet Earth. You should feel privileged to have one of their songs looping within your brain.

They didnt write it

But they made it theirs with their thrilling cover.

True enough. Canny few good versions of it though. The Clash album was a great album. Better than Londons Calling I reckon.

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The Clash are one of the greatest bands ever to grace this sweet Earth. You should feel privileged to have one of their songs looping within your brain.

They didnt write it

But they made it theirs with their thrilling cover.

True enough. Canny few good versions of it though. The Clash album was a great album. Better than Londons Calling I reckon.

That would make you a majority of just one among Clash fans.

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Have to admit I've only got their greatest hits. Still love them though. Not old enough to be into them 1st time round. Unlike some :icon_lol:

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The Clash are one of the greatest bands ever to grace this sweet Earth. You should feel privileged to have one of their songs looping within your brain.

They didnt write it

But they made it theirs with their thrilling cover.

True enough. Canny few good versions of it though. The Clash album was a great album. Better than Londons Calling I reckon.

That would make you a majority of just one among Clash fans.

 

Therefore implying that he is the Clash's only fan? :icon_lol:

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The Clash are one of the greatest bands ever to grace this sweet Earth. You should feel privileged to have one of their songs looping within your brain.

They didnt write it

But they made it theirs with their thrilling cover.

True enough. Canny few good versions of it though. The Clash album was a great album. Better than Londons Calling I reckon.

That would make you a majority of just one among Clash fans.

 

Therefore implying that he is the Clash's only fan? :icon_lol:

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

That he's the only clash fan that thinks that, sheeeeesh. [/explainingsarcasm]

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The Clash are one of the greatest bands ever to grace this sweet Earth. You should feel privileged to have one of their songs looping within your brain.

They didnt write it

But they made it theirs with their thrilling cover.

True enough. Canny few good versions of it though. The Clash album was a great album. Better than Londons Calling I reckon.

That would make you a majority of just one among Clash fans.

 

Therefore implying that he is the Clash's only fan? :icon_lol:

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

That he's the only clash fan that thinks that, sheeeeesh. [/explainingsarcasm]

 

Indeed, but to be a majority of one among Clash fans means that he is the only Clash fan. [/pedant]

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The Clash are one of the greatest bands ever to grace this sweet Earth. You should feel privileged to have one of their songs looping within your brain.

They didnt write it

But they made it theirs with their thrilling cover.

True enough. Canny few good versions of it though. The Clash album was a great album. Better than Londons Calling I reckon.

That would make you a majority of just one among Clash fans.

 

Therefore implying that he is the Clash's only fan? :icon_lol:

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

That he's the only clash fan that thinks that, sheeeeesh. [/explainingsarcasm]

 

Indeed, but to be a majority of one among Clash fans means that he is the only Clash fan. [/pedant]

But how can one ever be a majority? [/statistican]

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The Clash are one of the greatest bands ever to grace this sweet Earth. You should feel privileged to have one of their songs looping within your brain.

They didnt write it

But they made it theirs with their thrilling cover.

True enough. Canny few good versions of it though. The Clash album was a great album. Better than Londons Calling I reckon.

That would make you a majority of just one among Clash fans.

 

Therefore implying that he is the Clash's only fan? :icon_lol:

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

That he's the only clash fan that thinks that, sheeeeesh. [/explainingsarcasm]

 

Indeed, but to be a majority of one among Clash fans means that he is the only Clash fan. [/pedant]

But how can one ever be a majority? [/statistican]

When the group includes a man and a dog?

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Well done, you're both wrong <_<

That coming from the coneheed who only owns the best of :icon_lol:

And you say Pat's a snob :icon_lol:

Never and I mean never have I called him a snob. Some other things <_< but never a snob.

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Well done, you're both wrong :razz:

That coming from the coneheed who only owns the best of :jesuswept:

And you say Pat's a snob :lol:

Never and I mean never have I called him a snob. Some other things :blush: but never a snob.

Aye, well I'm calling you one. ;)

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Well done, you're both wrong :razz:

That coming from the coneheed who only owns the best of :jesuswept:

And you say Pat's a snob :lol:

Never and I mean never have I called him a snob. Some other things :blush: but never a snob.

Aye, well I'm calling you one. ;)

Oxymoron, you can't call a convict a snob

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Well done, you're both wrong :razz:

That coming from the coneheed who only owns the best of :jesuswept:

And you say Pat's a snob :lol:

Never and I mean never have I called him a snob. Some other things :blush: but never a snob.

Aye, well I'm calling you one. ;)

Oxymoron, you can't call a convict a snob

It's rare amongst Antipodeans, I'll give you that. You like to stand out from the crowd though, don't you? Anyway, as Peter Kay would say, what time is it there?

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