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Sandusky resident arrested while mowing overgrown city park grass
Friday, May 29, 2009 8:09 AM EDT

City police officers weeded out a local man at Central Park who just wanted to cut the grass.

Authorities arrested John Hamilton at 8:30 a.m. Thursday as the 48-year-old mowed the grass at the park.

Police charged the Sunset Drive resident with obstructing official business and persistent disorderly conduct.

Hamilton must appear in Sandusky Municipal Court at 9 a.m. today.

Ã¢â‚¬Å“The other day when I went by, I took a look at it and measured it. It (was) a foot tall,Ã¢â‚¬Â Hamilton said Thursday morning. Ã¢â‚¬Å“We have beautiful parks.Ã¢â‚¬Â

Staff writer Tom Jackson contributed to this story.
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Posted 2 years ago #
misskitty
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Penny Randleman=Bitch
ETA: So sad that he got arrested for that.

Posted 2 years ago #
lifeliberty
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Don't you dare take a union worker's job away from them!

Posted 2 years ago #
misskitty
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lifeliberty wrote >>
Don't you dare take a union worker's job away from them!

ahahahhaha ;)

Oh yea that is what some would say but I say if you want and value your job ya better do your job.

Posted 2 years ago #
Walker
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Wow. I've thought about cutting the grass in the little park across the street from my house. Yikes.

Posted 2 years ago #
lifeliberty
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I mow my neighbor's grass behind her garage. she is old and never gets back in the alley. I just do it so the alley does not look so bad. if I didn't do it it would never get done. Sometimes you just gotta do it, stop if someone complains though. I pick litter off the street and out of peoples' yards too, no one has ever said something to me about it.

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misskitty
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Walker wrote >>
Wow. I've thought about cutting the grass in the little park across the street from my house. Yikes.

Yea I know right.
Remember when I was asking about the park near my home and everyone said you have to do it yourself? Now I just don't know about that lol
Although getting arrested for cutting the grass would make for some interesting reactions from the judge.

Posted 2 years ago #
lifeliberty
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I think he got arrested because he wouldn't stop when ordered.

Posted 2 years ago #
groundrules

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dude should just move to Toledo

Posted 2 years ago #
berdawn
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lifeliberty wrote >>
Don't you dare take a union worker's job away from them!

How is this about union jobs?

Posted 2 years ago #
gramarye
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"Obstructing official business?"

"Persistent disorderly conduct?"

OK, there has to be more to the story than this. I saw this in the article as well, and maybe this is all there is to it, but I want to say that there might even be more backstory than this:

The employee said Hamilton was blowing grass onto the sidewalk and shredding trash in the park that had not been picked up prior to mowing, so she called the police.

Upon their arrival, Hamilton told police officers Ã¢â‚¬Å“he is sick of seeing the grass so long in parks, so he is fixing the problemÃ¢â‚¬Â Police arrested him after he continued to mow when they told him to stop. Officers cited Ã¢â‚¬Å“liability reasonsÃ¢â‚¬Â in the police report.

At the scene, Sandusky police Officer John Powell measured the grass and it was indeed more than one foot high. Police also found the park littered with paper, bottles and childrenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s underwear.

I'd also like to know how the officers handled the progression of events. Was it please stop, you're ruining the sidewalk --> we told you to stop, now stop --> stop or you're going to get arrested --> you're under arrest?

Posted 2 years ago #
Cookie
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Won't somebody think of the children's underwear?

Seriously, what's up with the children's underwear?

Posted 2 years ago #
lifeliberty
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berdawn wrote >>

lifeliberty wrote >>
Don't you dare take a union worker's job away from them!

How is this about union jobs?

"According to the police report, he was seen mowing the grass by Penny Randleman, a forestry department employee.

The employee said Hamilton was blowing grass onto the sidewalk and shredding trash in the park that had not been picked up prior to mowing, so she called the police."

Posted 2 years ago #
Tigertree
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I mow the lawn of the house no one lives in across the street from me when it gets tall enough that I can't stand looking at it any longer. Maybe I need to rethink that.

Posted 2 years ago #
berdawn
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lifeliberty wrote >>

berdawn wrote >>

lifeliberty wrote >>
Don't you dare take a union worker's job away from them!

How is this about union jobs?

"According to the police report, he was seen mowing the grass by Penny Randleman, a forestry department employee.
The employee said Hamilton was blowing grass onto the sidewalk and shredding trash in the park that had not been picked up prior to mowing, so she called the police."

sorry, I still don't get it. doesn't sound as though the forestry person was supposed to be mowing the grass and wasn't. and from the budget info, this guy isn't "taking" anyone's job as there are so few to be had.

Posted 2 years ago #
lifeliberty
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Well I'm SO sorry you don't find the humor in my post. I work in a union in which working out of class is a HUGE no no and people get ratted on if it happens, especially if a union rep sees it going on.
And yes, this could be viewed as taking a unionized city worker's job, even if they have too much work to do.

Posted 2 years ago #
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lifeliberty wrote >>
I think he got arrested because he wouldn't stop when ordered.

That's kind of how I read it too. On the face of it, it seems silly, but I suppose if there's a law against private citizens cutting public grass we shouldn't be surprised when the cops enforce it.

Posted 2 years ago #
berdawn
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lifeliberty wrote >>
Well I'm SO sorry you don't find the humor in my post. I work in a union in which working out of class is a HUGE no no and people get ratted on if it happens.

It didn't read like humor (to me, anyway); more of just another swipe at those who belong to unions. I envy your ability to part of one. While the board can discuss the pros and cons all day long, I know what a difference having a union can make for the "rank and file" (if I'm using that term correctly) workers.

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lifeliberty
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I'll go back and put a smiley face so people know I'm joking. Working out of class is something talked of often between those in the union because it hinders a lot of what we should/could be doing. I know people joke a lot about people in unions being lazy and such, (don't get me wrong, there are lazy people in every job) but some of the times it's because they aren't allowed to be as effective as they want to be. For instance, I'd love to go out in the field to talk to some of our agencies about mistakes they make and what they should do to correct them, but I'm not allowed because that is the job of the field rep section. Would continuing education help the program run more efficiently? Yes it would. Is it something I want to do and have talked to Mgmt about? Yes. Am I allowed to do it? No, because that job description belongs to someone else and if I do it, then it would be considered as an act of taking someone else's job and working out of class.
So for people working in a union, it is a joke.

Oh, and if you are thinking I'm anti-union, I'm not. That is just they way it is. Management has a whole slew of issues I wouldn't even want to touch.

Posted 2 years ago #
berdawn
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lifeliberty wrote >>
I'll go back and put a smiley face so people know I'm joking. Working out of class is something talked of often between those in the union because it hinders a lot of what we should/could be doing. I know people joke a lot about people in unions being lazy and such, (don't get me wrong, there are lazy people in every job) but some of the times it's because they aren't allowed to be as effective as they want to be. For instance, I'd love to go out in the field to talk to some of our agencies about mistakes they make and what they should do to correct them, but I'm not allowed because that is the job of the field rep section. Would continuing education help the program run more efficiently? Yes it would. Is it something I want to do and have talked to Mgmt about? Yes. Am I allowed to do it? No, because that job description belongs to someone else and if I do it, then it would be considered as an act of taking someone else's job and working out of class.
So for people working in a union, it is a joke.
Oh, and if you are thinking I'm anti-union, I'm not. Management has a whole slew of issues I wouldn't even want to touch.

thanks for the more detailed explanation! (and the smiley face). There are LOTS of things wrong with the union system, but few alternatives in the US have worked as well for those who have benefited most.

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