Brothers To The Rescue

Gerry Suttle, in the middle, with some of the Reynolds brothers.

She's 75 years old and she owns some property in Central Texas, on which the grass has continued to grow pretty high. Gerry Suttle received a huge shock, though, when the town's chief of police called her and let her know that there was a warrant out for her arrest.

Now, Ms. Suttle is a law-abiding Texan, with a squeaky-clean record. She said, "I'll be 76 in July. I'm 75 now and I've never had a speeding ticket, never had a parking ticket, and now here I am got a warrant for my arrest from the big city of Riesel." So, the chief had to explain that the warrant was for failure to appear in court for a citation about the height of her grass.



Chief Danny Krumnow explained, "It has grown up and the court had issued her letter and then court issued a warrant for failure to appear." But Ms. Suttle said she never received a letter and she was afraid to leave her home for fear she would be recognized and then arrested.

But into her life, stepped a group of four brothers, who had heard about Ms. Suttle's situation. They had never met Ms. Suttle, but they wanted to help her. So, the Reynolds brothers loaded up their lawn mowers and other equipment and proceeded to Ms. Suttle's property. Blaine Reynolds said, "We haven't met her yet but she's 75 years old and she needs some help mowing. That's the least we could do." Brandon, another of the brothers, stated, "I really wouldn't want her coming out here and doing it or paying someone else to when we could have just done it for free."

It was a hot day, over 90 degrees, when the brothers set out on their mission to mow the grass. But soon some of the neighbors joined in, all in the name of helping Gerry Suttle. With all of that help, the task took two hours, and all of the grass was back down to regulation size. As for Gerry, she was in shock, still, this time over all of the help she received, "I am very seldom without words. This is one time. You might want to mark it down in history that I didn't have something to say."

The grass before the Reynolds brothers and the neighbors took action.

Now that her grass has been cut in a wonderful show of neighborly support, Ms. Suttle has one final task, and that is to appear in court and to tell the judge that the grass has been cut. As for what amounts to quality of life laws, though, is it really fair or wise to have this type of law scaring someone in her or his senior years when maybe that someone could be having difficulty keeping the property up, either because of physical state or low income or any other possibility? Wouldn't it make more sense to find out what the difficulty is, rather than just take out an arrest warrant?

One of the Reynolds brothers in action.

Thanks for this article from 10 KWTX: http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Brothers-Mow-Lawn-To-Keep-Woman-From-Going-To-Jail--306874101.html; and this article from Copblock: http://www.copblock.org/129141/brothers-mow-lawn-75-year-old-woman-facing-arrest/. And a special thank you to the Reynolds brothers and Ms. Suttle's neighbors for having more common sense and seeing the bigger picture than city officials.

Click here to visit Back To The Book Nutrition.

Click here: SPONSORMATIC: FREE SPONSOR MATERIALS FOR YOUR TINY HOUSE BUILD PROJECT