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Get out of bed and cut your lawn! Code Compliance officer marched into woman's home and yelled
Daily Mail ^ | 7/9/12 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 07/09/2012 3:14:40 PM PDT by Teflonic

A woman got the shock of her life when she woke up to find a stranger in her bedroom, yelling at her to wake up because her grass was too long.

Erica Masters was asleep when Columbia County Code Compliance Officer Jimmy Vowell entered her Martinez, Georgia, home without permission to serve a violation notice for her overgrown lawn.

After knocking on the woman's door a few times, Vowell let himself and made his way into her bedroom, which was captured on surveillance video.

‘He let himself in and actually came through the house and into my bedroom. And yelled at me to wake me up, to let me know that I needed to come back outside and sign the violation notice,' Masters told WJBF.COM.

‘I woke up, I didn't have my glasses on or my contacts in and all I see is this big burly figure standing in my doorway. A big, huge guy with a grey shirt. It scared the mess out of me.’

Vowell, who has been placed on administrative leave, will not face criminal charges, it has been revealed.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: augusta; columbiacounty; georgia; jimmyvowell; martinez; officerjimmyvowell
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To: Teflonic

Guess he was lucky he wasn’t shot.


2 posted on 07/09/2012 3:17:20 PM PDT by riverrunner
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To: Teflonic
Vowell, who has been placed on administrative leave, will not face criminal charges, it has been revealed.

WTF?

3 posted on 07/09/2012 3:17:48 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Goode over evil. Voting for mitt or obie is like throwing your country away.)
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To: Teflonic

I fear if this happened in our house, that would be one dead fat man.


4 posted on 07/09/2012 3:19:04 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Teflonic

Sumbitch would have been dead had he tried this at my home.


5 posted on 07/09/2012 3:21:38 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
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To: SaraJohnson

my two big dogs would have had him for breakfast.


6 posted on 07/09/2012 3:21:55 PM PDT by sunmars
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To: Sirius Lee

surely this is breaking and entering? Trespassing?


7 posted on 07/09/2012 3:22:38 PM PDT by sunmars
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To: Teflonic
Alarge, strange man enters a woman's house and bedroom without permission. He must be suicidal. It is a wonder he isn't dead.
8 posted on 07/09/2012 3:22:43 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Teflonic

That guy would look like a 400 lb block of swiss cheese with 5.56 fragments if he tried that at my house.


9 posted on 07/09/2012 3:22:52 PM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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To: riverrunner

The area looks very rural, why the heck are grass requirements being enforced there anyway? She should just spread a 50lb bag of wildflower seeds over the whole front of the house and be done with it.


10 posted on 07/09/2012 3:23:14 PM PDT by Teflonic
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To: Teflonic

Appalling. But I have to ask, how did he let himself in? Was the food unlocked? Or did he break in?


11 posted on 07/09/2012 3:23:14 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Teflonic

The guy is none too smart.

They have guns and castle laws in GA. If she had a gun and heard him coming down the hallway she could have toasted him right there - and been within her rights.


12 posted on 07/09/2012 3:23:19 PM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: Teflonic

He’s right, her yard is a mess!


13 posted on 07/09/2012 3:24:34 PM PDT by occamrzr06
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To: SaraJohnson

He’d weigh a bit less after the 00 buckshot diet. As those in the know say, “heavy buckshot at close ranges remove meat and bone.”


14 posted on 07/09/2012 3:25:27 PM PDT by jboot (Galt by default.)
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To: riverrunner

Jimmy is quite fortunate that his name is not preceeded by the words “the late”...


15 posted on 07/09/2012 3:28:10 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Teflonic

Wake me up that way and it will be Mossberg time!


16 posted on 07/09/2012 3:28:13 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Teflonic

News as it should be...

“The woman told police officers that she was awakened by a large, strange man standing over her while she was sleeping in her bed and he began yelling at her. “I thought that he was crazy... I thought that he was going to rape or kill me... so I shot him once in the head and twice in the chest”.

LLS


17 posted on 07/09/2012 3:28:18 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Teflonic
Respect My Authoritah!

He has that over-aged Cartman look to him.

18 posted on 07/09/2012 3:32:48 PM PDT by Puckster
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To: Teflonic

The BTK murderer took a long break in his murderous rampage.

Why you ask?

He was deriving enough pleasure administratively torturing people as a code enforcer that he didn’t feel the need to Bind, Torture and Kill young women.

What does that tell you?


19 posted on 07/09/2012 3:33:00 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1265 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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