John Jefferson
Background: One of Jason Curle’s “no parking signs” (WREG/YouTube). Inset: Jason Curle (Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office/WREG).
There’s a man in Mississippi who takes parking very seriously, according to local cops, with one woman — who was cut by a “no parking” sign that the man allegedly set up and booby-trapped with razor blades — finding out the hard way last week.
“It cut her good,” Jordan Jennings, a manager of Sky Mart Bait Shop and Grocery in Oxford, told CBS affiliate WREG after making contact with the woman last Wednesday, Nov. 20, at the Lafayette County store. “She was very distraught [and] upset about something,” Jennings said. “She was asking for a cloth, something to clean it off.”
Jason Scott Curle, 51, was allegedly sick and tired of people messing with the “no parking” signs he had scattered outside his mobile home, with police reporting he had been setting them up for quite some time, according to WREG.
Curle’s wife, Michelle Curle, told the local Oxford Eagle newspaper that cars have been blocking their gravel driveway nearly every day while dropping off and picking up students from an adjacent school. The driveway is where Curle’s mobile home is located, according to WREG, and was recently enlarged. It now sits on property used by the school, the Lafayette County Fire Department and a community center. This has led to car congestion and traffic problems in the area, according to Michelle, which sparked Curle’s “no parking” crusade.
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There’s just one problem: Curle has allegedly been setting his signs up on parts of the property that don’t belong to him, according to the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office.
On top of that, he is accused of lacing at least one of the displays with “multiple razor blades,” which sliced Curle’s victim on her right hand, according to the arrest report, leading to charges of aggravated assault for purposely attempting to cause injury last Thursday.
Curle was released that same day from the Lafayette County Detention Center and is out on a $20,000 bond. Attempts by Law&Crime to reach him and his wife have been unsuccessful.
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