Idiot: Gov’t worker breaks into Georgia woman’s home to demand she cut grass

Homeowner Erica Masters said she was awoken to enforcement officer Jimmy Vowell screaming at her about her overgrown yard. He was fired, according to reports.

A Georgia homeowner awoke to a hulking stranger screaming in her bedroom with a deranged — and domestic — demand: Cut the grass!

The intruder turned out to be a Columbia County code compliance officer who was serving Erica Masters with a violation because of her overgrown yard.

But Jimmy Vowell’s unwelcome appearance on the morning of July 2 — which was caught on a home surveillance camera — was beyond the call of duty for an enforcement officer, officials said.

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Vowell was fired Monday after a review by county officials, according to the Columbia County News-Times.

“It was a violation of policy as it relates to entering a house without permission and making a false statement to a supervisor,” County Development Services Division Director Richard Harmon told the newspaper.

Vowell’s overboard response came after he said he smelled something coming from the inside of the home, he told the News-Times. When he knocked, the door opened, he claimed.

But Masters said she never heard anyone at the door, and was awoken to Vowell talking to her from her bedroom doorway.

Vowell “yelled at me to wake me up, to let me know that I needed to come back outside and sign the violation notice,” Masters said.

“I woke up, I didn’t have my glasses on or my contacts in and all I see is this big burly figure standing in my doorway,” she told ABC affiliate WJBF in Augusta. “A big huge guy with a grey shirt. It scared the mess out of me.”

Masters said she called 911, but because Vowell was a county employee, a deputy wasn’t sent and she was instead transferred to Vowell’s supervisor, the News-Times reported.

Vowell had first denied that he went inside Masters’ home, according to reports, but the surveillance footage proved otherwise.

“A code enforcement officer must be invited into a home,” Columbia County Administrator Scott Johnson told WJBF. “They simply cannot enter without that invite. There are some circumstances where there may be extenuating circumstances ... if it were a matter of life and death.”

But Masters’ overgrown grass wasn’t one of them, officials said.

It wasn’t immediately clear if she trimmed her lawn following the incident, but previously acknowledged that it requires a cut.

“I understand (the county) having to serve a violation notice,” Masters told WJBF, “ but the way they handled it was completely unacceptable.”

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Idiot: Gov’t worker breaks into Georgia woman’s home to demand she cut grass

Idiot: Gov’t worker breaks into Georgia woman’s home to demand she cut grass

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