Next time you think about sitting at a picnic table, minding your business, enjoying the view of a lake while getting a little work done, you might want to check to make sure that the lake is public property. Or else you might end up in jail.
KMBC has the strange story of Jennifer Payne, who visited Weatherby Lake (north of the metro) on Monday between meetings in the Kansas City area. She sat down at a picnic table to write some thank-you cards. As she was leaving, the TV station reports, a police officer busted her for trespassing. The lake is private property, and although the roads around the lake and some of the land are public, the table that Payne was sitting on was privately owned. So, any decent human being would just chalk it up to an out-of-towner not knowing the rules, right? Nope. The officer arrested her, and the lake board decided to press charges.
From KMBC:
"I was sitting on a bench writing thank-you cards. 'Can't you let me go with a warning?' " Payne asked.ThePeople are so great, man.answer was no. Payne was arrested, fingerprinted and had her mugshot
taken. She was kept for a couple hours at the Weatherby Lake Police
Department and was about to be sent to the Platte County Jail for the
night until her boss bailed her out.The Weatherby Lake police
chief told Weinbaum that this is standard operating procedure. The
property owner has the right to file charges.
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She knew where she was and that she was tresspassing it is clearly marked PRIVATE PROPERTY
The picnic table in your backyard belongs to you not the public unless you want to allow me to on your golf course
KCMO is out writing tickets today at Amity right outside of Weatherby . I guess they are money hungry too for enforcing the speed limit
True Sluts and Repo men are lowlifes but we would allow you to visit as a guest of a member
Sounds like that would be a perfect location for the Slut Walk!
Oh , also ---you cant park on the streets of Weatherby for even a minute without a cop coming up behind you. BE VERY CAREFUL in this GESTAPO run neighborhood.
Im proud to say that I repossessed two cars out of the sacred Weatherby without being detected by the cops or the owners. But I cant say i wasnt a bit nervous!! Fuck you Weatherby cops!!
I live just a couple of blocks south of Weatherby Lake, and after five years of driving back and forth through there I can honestly say this- you are either a resident of Weatherby Lake or you are potential revenue. They'll ticket you for going 28mph in a 25mph zone, and detaining "trespassers" is another great moneymaker. It's nice that something like this finally made it onto the radar, because when they say it's standard procedure, it IS. Standard procedure brings in a ton of money and discourages outsiders from stopping their cars as they go through.
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