LITTLE OL' LADY FROM ALTADENA
story from ABC News Online
After trying to run down her neighbors and spray bug killer on them, the little old lady
from near Pasadena is getting a chance to hit the straight and narrow. Dixie
Carlene Granat, 80, was freed last week after two months in jail, after pleading no
contest to spraying Raid insect killer on a neighbor she considered a pest. Granat lives
in Altadena, a Los Angeles-area suburb near Pasadena.
Granat also was convicted last year of trying to run down a neighborhood teenager in her pink
Suzuki Samurai, while shouting racial epithets. She was released on her own recognizance
after agreeing to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings three times a week and avoid
trouble. Her car was also impounded.
"I will behave like an old lady should," Granat said, according to The Associated
Press. "I will sit in my rocking chair. . . I'll only drink lemonade. She will be
back in court on July 9, and will be subject to a hearing to decide if she should
live in an assisted-care facility.
Granat admitted she had some psychological problems. "I'm bipolar, bicoastal and bi- a
few other things," she told the court. |
