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Come and Knock on Our Door

Charles Oliver | 7.19.2012 6:00 AM

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Erica Masters was asleep in her home in Columbia County, Georgia, when she awoke to find a strange man in her bedroom shouting at her. It was county code enforcement officer Jimmy Vowell demanding that she sign a notice of a code violation for not mowing her yard.

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