A "dangerous and violent" old lady??

She was attacked by police for failing to water her lawn!

When 70-year-old Betty Perry was accused of neglecting her lawn, she became defiant. Perry was arrested, handcuffed and briefly jailed in July for declining a ticket for failing to water her lawn.

She agreed on Friday to resolve her case by pleading guilty to a disorderly conduct charge and paying a $100 fine. She also faces six months of probation. Perry was scheduled to go to trial Monday on a more serious charge of resisting arrest for refusing to give her name, accept a citation or allow herself to be handcuffed on her front steps. "She ends up with a sentence that is very minimal and shouldn't intrude terribly on her day-to-day life," prosecutor Andrew Peterson said. "For our part, it accomplishes what we set out to accomplish from the very beginning."

Peterson said he was planning to drop the lawn neglect charge anyway because Perry has started taking care of her lawn. But it was important for the city to get a conviction for Perry's "dangerous and violent" actions following an officer's attempt to cite her, he said. During a struggle with officer Jim Flygare, Perry fell, injured her nose, rolled onto her stomach and put her hands under her to foil a handcuffing.

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Learning from America?

Australian traffic cop sought sex from provisionally-licensed driver

A TRAFFIC cop has admitted asking a young female motorist for sexual favours in return for not giving her a ticket. Sen-Constable David John Mits, 43, yesterday pleaded guilty at Melbourne Magistrates' Court to seeking a bribe from the P-plate driver. He stopped the woman in Bayswater in January last year and later told her that female motorists in the past had "offered me things to try and get off ". "Very often we get to see legs right up past their thighs, if you get my drift," Sen-Constable Mits allegedly said. "Buttons have been known to mysteriously become undone, pretty much all the way down."

The policeman was stationed at Knox Traffic Management Unit when he pulled the woman over for not wearing a seatbelt and failing to display P-plates. She had only two demerit points left, having previously been caught speeding, and explained that she needed her licence for work. After getting her mobile number he later called and allegedly asked the young woman what she was willing to do to stay on the road. Later that day he went to her house in a marked police car, and returned when his shift was over using his own car.

Suspicious of his unprofessional behaviour, the woman used her MP3 player to secretly record their last conversation, in which Sen-Constable Mits allegedly told her she was good-looking and that it would work in her favour. When she asked if he was suggesting she do something sexual, he replied: "Some have offered in the past . . . but I don't want people to offer it if they don't want to". "I was shocked with what he was asking," the woman told police, having called 000 after the policeman left.

Sen-Constable Mits, of Boronia, pleaded guilty to one count of corruptly seeking favours in violation of his official duty as a police officer. Magistrate Jelena Popovic released him on bail and ordered him to face the County Court in May.

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