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“On Friday morning, Joseph Prudente put on a pair of shorts and his ‘Grandpa Gone Wild’ T-shirt. He took off his wedding band and put his heart medication in a plastic Wal-Mart bag. Then his daughter drove him to jail. Grandpa had time to do. His crime? He had disobeyed a court order that he sod the lawn at his Beacon Woods home. His bail? Zero. Prudente, 66, must stay in the Pasco County jail in Land O’Lakes until the required sod work is completed, under a September court order signed by Circuit Judge W. Lowell Bray. … Prudente has owned a home in the deed restricted community since 1998. The covenants require homeowners to keep their lawns covered with grass. Earlier this year, the Beacon Woods Civic Association took Prudente to court after he failed to install new sod on his browning lawn, which had withered after his sprinklers broke. The association had already sent letters telling him to resod his front and back yards by certain dates. … Representatives of the Beacon Woods association expressed regret Prudente had landed in jail. But they said it was his own fault. ‘It’s a sad situation,’ said board president Bob Ryan, who added that the association had followed all the correct procedures. ‘But in the end, I have to say he brought it upon himself.’” (10/12/08)