HIGHLAND PARK, Texas (AP) -- Police say they had no choice but to go by the book when they handcuffed a 97-year-old woman and took her to jail for failing to pay a traffic ticket.
Harriette Kelton was arrested last week after officers stopped her for having an expired registration and inspection sticker and realized there was a warrant for her arrest for failing to pay a traffic ticket.
Kelton, a former schoolteacher who has lived in the Dallas suburb for decades, was in police custody for about two hours before her attorney arrived and she was released on her own recognizance.
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This seems familiar. Oh yes, watching the programme Bailiffs on the Beeb and seeing a guy almost take away a granny's car because of a £50 parking ticket.
And then there are those that can't aford council tax. They'd certainly have backing from sheer emotional outrage alone.
Driving at 97 sounds damn dangerous though. I think tests should be redone at around 70 and stricter limits on what certain OAPs can do on the road. If it's not boy racers in riced up cars causing crashes, it's old people driving round a roundabout the wrong way or doing 20 in a 50 mph zone.
