GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio– Nancy Segula lives on Havana Road in Garfield Heights and a couple years ago, the cats started showing up on her back porch.
“It began in 2017 with me feeding stray kitties. I used to have a neighbor that had a couple cats and he moved away so he left them,” Segula said. “I would always feed them and care for them because I was worried about them and I’m a cat lover. Once my neighbors got upset about it, they called the animal warden.”
She got her first citation in 2017. More followed
“I got a total of four,” Segula said.
Her latest citation required her to appear before Magistrate Jeffrey Short last week. He sentenced her to 10 days in the Cuyahoga County Jail.
“I couldn’t believe what my mother was telling me. She gets 10 days in the county jail, I couldn’t believe it,” said Dave Pawlowski, her son son. “I’m sure people hear about the things that happen downtown in that jail. And they are going to let my 79-year-old mother go there?”
In Garfield Heights, it is illegal to feed stray dogs and cats under ordinance 505.23. However, Segula doesn’t feel the punishment fits the crime.
“It’s too much of a sentence for me for what I’m doing. When there are so many people out there that do bad things,” she said.
FOX 8 reached out to the dog warden and the mayor of Garfield heights. Our phone calls were not returned.
Segula is to report to the county jail Aug. 11 at 9 a.m.
“Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against – then you’ll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, rulers make them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that’s the system, Mr. Rearden, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.” — ATLAS SHRUGGED
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable…” ― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series
ah those pesky neighbors
Home of the slave!
“Once my neighbors got upset about it, they called the animal warden.”
Houses do burn down occasionally.
Despicable pukes!!!
And whichever POS ‘judge’ ordered the sentence needs a Louisville Slugger upside the head… repeatedly, until thoroughly unrecognizable – even by close relatives.
I’m in a vicious mood after seeing this sh#t! 😡
so when the shtf and these people show up at your door, because they are “hungry” are you going to feed them? of course not, i would feed the cats. there will be lots of these types people showing up in the near future. they think they are above everyone else, really sick people. people use to drop off unwanted cats for years here, now they just drop off roosters!
I got a real “bwahahahahahahahahah” idea–the cat feeder and the son need to go out and buy a boatload o’ mice and place them around their nosey neighbor’s homes at night when the neighbors are sleeping and then hear the neighbors complain about mice…they’ll beg the cat lady to let the cats eat those mice! What goes around comes around.
Sounds like a bunch of stupid people sucking up my air
Arresting someone for aiding in gods plan , yeah she’s SOOO horrible (smdh)
HER SON IS AN ABSOLUTE COWARD.
IN MY DAY, IT WAS AN UNWRITTEN LAW.
“LEAVE THE CAT LADY ALONE!!”
OR, “BE NICE TO THE CAT LADY”.
ANYONE WITH REAL COMPASSION IN THIS COUNTRY IS MADE OUT TO BE A CRIMINAL, WHILE THEY USE “COMPASSION” AS AN EXCUSE TO BREAK THE LAW…..
THIS IS NO DIFFERENT THAN BRAINWASHED JUDEOKRICHANITY, WHICH SCREAMS”GOD LOVES YOU!!!” AS THEY DISOBEY THE NEW COVENANT…………..WHILE THEY CLAIM TO BE “PASTORS”, THEY PIECEMEAL THE NEW TESTAMENT TO COERCE YOU INTO SIN AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
Pe 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
2Pe 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
2Pe 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
2Pe 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
2Pe 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
2Pe 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
2Pe 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2Pe 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. THE SUBJECT IS UNREPENTANT FALLEN CHRISTIAN “PASTORS”