97 Y.O. Woman Handcuffed, Jailed For Not Paying Traffic Ticket

[matcom]

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HIGHLAND PARK, Texas -- A 97-year-old Dallas-area woman was handcuffed and taken to jail in a squad car for failing to pay a traffic ticket.

Now, one of Dolly Kelton's sons is questioning the former finishing-school teacher's treatment by police in the posh Dallas-area community of Highland Park.

Highland Park police stopped the woman's car last week for having an expired registration and inspection sticker. They then learned she had an outstanding warrant for failing to pay a traffic ticket.

She was in police custody for about two hours before her attorney arrived and she was released on her own recognizance.

http://www.wftv.com/newsofthestrange/3245533/detail.html

[skooooo]

1. Well, start letting the 97-year-old women off...

...for their crimes, and there goes the rest of the country!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. 3... 2... 1...

Contdown for the "well, dem law is dem law" posts.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Hm, liftoff occurred in LBN instead.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x516141#516217

[russian33]

3. for some reason I'm not surprised...

...this happened in Texas.

[Robb]

4. Well, that oughtta learn her

...You gotta teach people a lesson early on, or they'll be lawbreakers for the rest of their lives. :eyes:

[tekriter]

6. Yep - good thing they nipped this in the bud...

giving her a chance to straighten up and make something of her life.

[havocmom]

5. Just who does she think she is?

Kenny Boy Lay or something? We gotta come down hard on these scofflaw grannies or we will have gangs of them driving around, selling geritol on street corners near rest homes, taunting the police, possibily even engaging in smoking and using course language! Lordy lordy, we gotta make an example, for the sake of the children.....

[the Kelly Gang]

7. tough on crime..only way to go

[DS1]

8. shoulda been head-stomped too, damn parking violators

:grr: :grr:

[Commendatori]

9. Good thing they handcuffed her

A lot of those old ladies teach hand-to-hand combat to our special forces.