June 16th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Homeowners who don’t mow their grass in the northeast Ohio city of Canton now face stiffer penalties — including possible jail time.
The city council unanimously passed a law Monday that makes a second high-grass violation a fourth-degree misdemeanor carrying a fine of up to $250 and as many as 30 days in jail.
The previous law only made the first violation a minor misdemeanor, with a fine of up to $150 but no jail time. The new law is to take effect in 30 days.
“This is the type of action we need to take in order to clean up our neighborhoods and our city,” Mayor William J. Healy II said.
The laws are an effort to reduce the roughly $250,000 the city spends to cut about 2,000 private lots each year and to address public complaints, Councilman Greg Hawk has said.
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January 27th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
I don’t even want to know the real story behind this accident!
I just hope that no one got hurt although I have a feeling that someone probably did!
It looks like a car fell as it was going over an overpass and then landed on a car that was traveling under the overpass doesn’t it? It actually looks like this might be an action shot since it appears there’s some stuff flying around above the top car if you look closely.
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October 22nd, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Did you hear the story about the woman from Utah who found a severed mouse head in a can of green beans?
The Arkansas company which makes the beans offered the woman $100 if she pledges to not take legal action. The official letter from Allens Inc of Siloam Springs, Ark., describes this as a gesture of good will.
Good will my butt! Marianne Watson isn’t interested in their offer stating “I won’t sign it under any circumstances,”.
She was never interested in taking legal action, but she did want to “put enough media attention on them that they either withdraw those cans or do something other than what they’re trying to do, which is shut me up.”
Watson was cooking lunch for two sons Sunday when she said she found a severed mouse head in a can of Allens Cut Green Beans, which had been purchased at a Wal-Mart store in American Fork. Nothing was eaten.
Allens spokesman James Phillips said the mouse probably was picked up during the harvest and did not originate in the canning factory. He called it an isolated incident.
“We apologize as much as we can, but we also do everything known from a technology standpoint and personnel standpoint to prevent it from happening,” he said. “But inevitably, occasionally, things like this occur.”
A recall is not necessary, Phillips said.
“This would not reach the level of exposing people to illness because the product is rendered commercially sterile,” he said in a phone interview. “Every can is cooked to a predetermined temperature and time.”
Watson said she may have the mouse remnants and green beans tested. She has refused to return them to the company.
“I was thankful I had a little soup earlier because I couldn’t eat after seeing that,” she said.
Isn’t that disgusting?
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