Florida woman fined over $90k for stagnant pool in home.

A Florida woman thought she was being scammed when she received a letter imposing a fine of over $90,0000 for stagnant pool and overgrown grass in her property located in Dunedin, a small seaside city outside Tampa.

Kristi Allen received the letter saying she owed $92,600 in fines for overgrown vegetation and a stagnant swimming pool at a house she no longer owned and given two weeks to pay.

The letter further hinted that she could be sued if she didn't pay. The debt ballooned to $103,559 Including interest charges and other fees about twice her yearly income.

Three months later the city of Dunedin sued to collect, setting off a legal fight.

The local governments have been accused of using their power to impose heavy fines on citizens in America.

The Supreme Court ruled in February that local governments can't impose excessive fines after residents put up a fight challenging potentially bankrupting fines.

Fines are a reliable source of revenue for cash-starved cities, and have become a big – and rapidly growing – business for local governments. States, cities and counties collected a total of $15.3 billion in fines and forfeitures in 2016, according to the most recent financial records collected by the U.S.

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Angry British man who threatened to bomb an independent Scotland ordered by court to pay £500 fine

Edinburgh city sheriff court ordered 43-year old Ian Thirlaway to pay the sum of £500 as fine after he pled guilty to committing a racially aggravated breach of the peace. Thirlaway who is a British oil worker flew into a fit of rage after he missed his train at the Edinburgh Waverley station. He began shouting and swearing at the staff in the train station before saying, " I hope you get independence and we have spare bombs and we can bomb the whole place". He was arrested by the British Transport Police and he continued in rage saying to the officers " I'm arrested and you let... and immigrants in here, F***ing hell. His defence lawyer told the court her client made those statements because he suffered from severe depression and when under pressure he attacked anyone and everyone.

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This is the human barbie who has had no help achieving "The Look"

16-year old Lolita Richi is from Kiev in Ukraine and she boasts her Barbie look is all natural . She claims she is the best Human Barbie yet and hasn't had help from cosmetic surgery, dieting or even Photoshop. Lolita who is still in high school says all the boys fancy her and she is the queen bee among the girls. She goes on to say her looks are all natural although she does use push up bras to enhance her breast, she doesn't do anything special as she is blessed with a gorgeous figure. People have openly told her they are jealous of her figure and looks and would want to look like her.

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Prison officer sentenced to 15 months in prison for engaging in sexual relationship with a prisoner

Whittaker, 52 couldn't help feeling attracted to Kongolo who is 17 years her junior Prison officer Anita Whittaker has been sentenced to a 15-month jail term for having inappropriate sexual relations with a prisoner. 52-year old Whittaker who is a mother of two admitted developing a friendship with 35-year old prisoner Kazadi Kongolo who was jailed in 1999 for stabbing a teenager to death. She said she felt vulnerable after an abusive relationship with a fellow prison officer in another prison, and the court heard how within four months the friendship developed into an intimate and sexual relationship which gradually progressed from kissing and cuddling to oral sex. The affair was uncovered after a cell phone was found hidden in Kongolo's bottom during a search of his cell by prison officers at Wormwood Scrubs which is a category B prison in Hammersmith in west London. Officers found Whittaker's number along ...

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