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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: null and void

I am well prepared.

And my dogs spend their days sharpening their teeth and checking the batteries in their walkie talkies.


41 posted on 07/09/2012 4:24:32 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Repeal The 17th

Not even gonna try.


42 posted on 07/09/2012 4:28:23 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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To: Teflonic

Update: The guy has been fired.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-07-09/columbia-county-fires-code-officer


43 posted on 07/09/2012 4:28:42 PM PDT by Stalwart
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To: Teflonic
Today's Augusta Chronicle reports the Code Enforcement "officer" was fired.

Link

44 posted on 07/09/2012 4:33:16 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: riverrunner

He was in hot pursuit of her dog.


45 posted on 07/09/2012 4:34:25 PM PDT by X-spurt (It is truly time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: null and void

“Taliaferro County Georgia...”
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It is pronounced: Toliver.


46 posted on 07/09/2012 4:34:49 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Repeal The 17th
Tal short a, ee,a,ferro. TalEEaferro, I think.
47 posted on 07/09/2012 4:36:37 PM PDT by prof.h.mandingo (Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
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To: Stalwart; Wings-n-Wind

“...The guy has been fired....”
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If the woman had not had a video security system in her home, nothing would have ever come of this.


48 posted on 07/09/2012 4:39:33 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Repeal The 17th
It is pronounced: Toliver.

TO-liver?
TOL-iver?
tol-IVER
tol-E-ver?
toli-VER?

49 posted on 07/09/2012 4:41:00 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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To: Stalwart

Thanks for the update, glad he was let go.


50 posted on 07/09/2012 4:41:58 PM PDT by Teflonic
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This A-hole can count himself lucky I wasn’t there.

I wouldn’t ask any questions and his family would be in mourning for his stoopitity and arrogance.


51 posted on 07/09/2012 4:41:59 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live thnrough it anyway)
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To: null and void

It is...In New Yuk City


52 posted on 07/09/2012 4:45:07 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live thnrough it anyway)
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To: null and void; prof.h.mandingo

“Taliaferro County Georgia”
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It is pronounced “TAWL-a-ver”.


53 posted on 07/09/2012 4:45:33 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: riverrunner
It scared the mess out of me.’

What the hell does that mean? Did she have a bowel movement when she saw the dude?

54 posted on 07/09/2012 4:51:14 PM PDT by Harley
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To: Harley

Depends?


55 posted on 07/09/2012 4:54:12 PM PDT by BlueDragon (cast your bread upon the waters, it will come back to you after many days... all soggy)
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To: Harley

Depends?


56 posted on 07/09/2012 4:54:30 PM PDT by BlueDragon (cast your bread upon the waters, it will come back to you after many days... all soggy)
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To: riverrunner
"This is not a phony phone call. There is an intruder: male, Caucasian, possibly armed, certainly weird, in my kitchen. My, my, my name is Bueller . . . look, it's real nice that you hope my brother is feeling better. But, I'm in danger, okay? I'm very cute, I'm very alone, and I'm very protective of my body--I do not want it violated or killed, alright? I need help! Speaka de English? D*ckhead!"


57 posted on 07/09/2012 4:55:21 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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To: LibLieSlayer
“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”.

I can't believe you're saying this! That's nuts!

Everybody knows you shoot twice to center mass first, and then put one in the head.

;=)

58 posted on 07/09/2012 4:58:58 PM PDT by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got eight? [NRA Life Member])
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To: riverrunner

dont american media ever cover these type of transgressions?


59 posted on 07/09/2012 5:04:06 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch ( if you love, you will not condemn, and if you condemn, you cannot love)
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To: riverrunner

Uh what happened to criminal trespass?


60 posted on 07/09/2012 5:08:48 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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