YOUR GRASS IS TOO LONG!!

Have you ever driven by a neighbor's house and thought, "Their grass is too long! I'm going to burn their house down!" That's what 58-year-old Phillip Bennett from Cartersville, Georgia did. He set fire to his neighbor's house because the grass in his backyard grew too high for his liking. According to police reports, Bennett gutted Marty Corbitt's property after dousing it with gasoline and setting it ablaze with a lighter. Corbitt and his 3-year-old daughter miraculously escaped the Wednesday morning blaze unharmed. Corbitt's wife, Katie was at work during the incident.

Corbitt admitted to a local news station that Bennett had been a pretty good neighbor for the past four years but tensions had risen in the last week over his unkempt lawn. He went on to claim that the unstable Bennett had kicked in his front door and threatened to kill him if he didn't fix the problem. Fearing for his life, Corbitt called 911, but suddenly saw Bennett return with two cans of gasoline. He then witnessed Bennett smash the kitchen window in and pour gasoline into the room and set it on fire. Corbitt grabbed his daughter and they fled outside only to watch their house burn. Firefighters arrived minutes later and battled the flames, but the home was gutted. 

Bennett went on the run, but turned himself in to U.S. marshals in Murphy, North Carolina this past Thursday, where he now sits in a county jail awaiting transfer back to Georgia. Meanwhile, the Corbitts get to stay with relatives until they figure out what to do with their house. Okay, here's what I have to say; this whole thing was about a lawn! All Marty Corbitt had to do was mow his lawn! Then again, it's his property and his business. If he wants to be a lazy piece of crap and not mow his lawn or care for his yard. That is his business. As for Phillip Bennett, there's no need to threaten someone's life over it. How is his high grass affecting you in any way, other than the fact that his property might be an eyesore to the neighborhood? Once again, that's not really his problem. So, now the Corbitt family is without a home and Bennett is in jail. It looks like things didn't go as planned, huh, Mr. Bennett? I swear people are dumb and really care too much about other people's business. If I saw a neighbor's lawn too high, which I have, I would just laugh at it. Trying to kill a family because of it is absolutely ridiculous. Not to mention there was a 3-year-old girl in the house! What a psycho! Then again, it is Georgia. The only think good about Georgia are its peaches! No one ever accused them of being a smart state.