Her Own Payette Idaho
by dentedbluemercedes
July 17, 2010
http://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/her-own-payette-idaho/#more-721Sunday, July 11, a mobile home and pickup truck were torched, fake pipe bombs found and a woman was arrested running naked down a county road carrying another fake pipe bomb.
Catherine Carlson was charged with arson, indecent exposure and making fake pipe bombs. But the details of what drove Carlson to self-destruct and attempt suicide-by-cop paint a several-years-long shocking picture of inner death by misidentification.
The spark for this is said to have began back in December 2007, when she was given an $841 fine for driving with a suspended license. Though her name was legally changed in the 1970s and she has not used the old male name since, authorities insisted on including her previous name from decades ago on the ticket as an "a.k.a." She refused to pay this ticket because of the court's insistence on keeping that name on it, and has served jail time on at least four occasions, including a 5-day stretch in September 2008 and a 3-day stretch in October 2008. Although post-operative since 1980, she was kept in segregation. At that time, the Observer reported:
