Millionaire Loses Everything, Files Bankruptcy Because She Won't Mow Lawn

[matcom]

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TEQUESTA, Fla. -- Hattie Siegel sits barefoot on her front porch and tells visitors her life story.

Yet there is one chapter of her life that she still cannot explain. That would be Chapter Seven, the one that says she is bankrupt.

The 83-year-old Kentucky native amassed about $1.8 million in fines, all because she would not keep a manicured yard at her Tequesta home.

She is losing much of the property she owns to pay the court-ordered fines.

The West Palm Beach attorney representing Siegel at the governor's request is now planning to challenge the court's decision. He argues that the findings of code violations were not reasonable and the village had no right to sell her lien to a private company.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/5561226/detail.html

[GOPisEvil]

1. I'm with you, Hattie. Yard work sucks!

:thumbsup:

[In_The_Wind]

2. I'm lookin' at snow. It's 82° in Homestead Florida, I'll mow the lawn.

Brrr