After I enjoyed the moment, that is. And because her arrest was on a beach-related offense — tampering with a sea turtle nest — my enjoyment of that arrest was all the more sweet, I admit.
After all, Schultz, 73, is infamous as the most hyper-territorial resident of South Manasota Key. She calls the cops and berates people if they dare treat her little stretch of private beach as a public one, or even if they assume it has the usual mandatory strip of public access starting at or near the mean high water line.
Schultz has long claimed her beach neighborhood to be an exception that has no such public easement. Nothing presses her buttons more than those who act like some law, real or imagined, gives them a right to sit on her sand or, heaven forbid, set up a chair and umbrella.
So this newspaper and others have written about Schultz coming out of her house to shoo people away, and about at least one trespass arrest made at her request.
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