Well Now Isn’t This Special

Seems as if the town of Clover, SC, wants to keep its streets and yards tidy and clean.  No real problem with that, I suppose.

Even if it means a 79-year old Korean War vet living on a fixed income has to go to jail.

I wish I was kidding.  But I’m not.

His original crime?  Apparently it was not cleaning up his yard to the satisfaction of the town code enforcement officer.  No one else complained.

So what if he collects items in order to supplement his income so he can pay for medicine for his disabled wife?  After all, he did violate the law – at least in the eyes of one local bureaucrat.  And he did fail to pay the $500 fine he was later assessed for not cleaning up his yard.

He started serving 30 days in jail, on weekends, yesterday evening.

Two millenia ago Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote:  “I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog.”   If I didn’t know better perhaps I’d wonder when Cicero visited Clover and met their code enforcement officer, or the town judge.

Or maybe both.

Contact information for Clover’s mayor and town council can be found at this link.

Category: Dumbass Bullshit, Legal