A woman contacted JCSO dispatch to report that a county snowplow driver had harassed her. Deputies initially contacted the woman’s husband, who claimed that the plow operator had “quit doing his job” and was “spying on” his wife. Unfortunately, he was nowhere in the vicinity during the woman’s ordeal and the officer asked to speak to the actual complainant. She explained that she’d been taking a walk with her dog on the previous afternoon when a snowplow operator stopped his vehicle and rebuked her for allowing the animal to wander around unleashed. He also repeatedly requested her address, which she refused to divulge. “I don’t think he should be asking women where they live,” she told the deputy. “He’s hired to snowplow. I pay taxes, you plow. That’s his job.” After giving her a sympathetic hearing, the officer confirmed that county ordinance requires that her dog be leashed when gadding about the neighborhood. She countered by asserting that, in like circumstances, a teenage girl might foolishly provide her address to her own peril. The officer said he would talk to the plow driver’s supervisor.
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