A 79-year-old disabled veteran is facing one month in jail for having too much junk in his front yard — junk that he fixes up and sells in order to keep his home and buy medicine for his wife, the Rock Hill Herald reported .
John Ramsey was first convicted in January of keeping junk in his front yard, a misdemeanor offense in the small rural town of Clover, S.C. He was ordered to clean it up, or face 30 days in jail. He cleaned it up.
But last month, the court ruled Ramsey‘s cleanup effort wasn’t good enough. He was held in contempt and given two weeks to pay $500. Ramsey — living on $898 a month in Social Security and veterans benefits — didn’t have $500, so when the deadline passed he went to the police department to turn himself in. Instead, town officials told him he had a hearing on Monday to determine whether he should go to jail for being unable to pay his fine.
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and it seems the only person bothered by it is the town’s code officer who started the proceedings in the first place.
I suggest we swamp Mr. Charlie Dixon with an inbox full of emails or a phone call.
I just did!
Mr. ChHarlie Dixon….Code Enforcement Officer for the town of CLover, NC
803-222-5158 cdixon@cloversc.org
if anyone wants to join me in asking the mayor if there is a good reason for this kind of treatment to our vets.
Donnie Grice, Mayor
112 Ridge Avenue
Clover, SC 29710
803.222.4374
dgrice@cloversc.org
Oh my god !! Leave the old man alone!!
I've never lived anywhere in my life where there were not people like this.One that comes to mind is a home on 675 near Delmar,The guy has his entire house surrounded with stuff,all for sale of course.Another is on Bi State Blvd in Del,about 1 mile north of Delmar.To most this appears to be an eyesore.To them it's a living.
Good grief. If you can go to jail for junk in your yard, I have a neighbor who should be doing life without parole.
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