Alaska Peninsula douser gets 320 hours

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Remember this bozo with the water buckets?

KENAI -- A local fishing guide was sentenced Monday to 320 hours of community service for dumping water on street-corner peace demonstrators last spring while his son was fighting in Iraq.

Jeff Webster drew the relatively stiff sentence for three misdemeanor counts of harassment and violating constitutional rights after he refused to say he was sorry or had learned a free-speech lesson, though he promised not to do it again.

Magistrate David Landry said he wanted to make plain that the community was "standing firm" in defense of constitutional rights. He ordered Webster to do 80 hours of service to nonprofits for each of two harassment counts -- or else serve 10 days in jail on each count. Webster was sentenced to an additional 160 hours of community service and a suspended 120-day jail term on the rare constitutional charge, which Landry called the most important issue of the case.

Webster dumped five-gallon buckets of water from a passing pickup on the demonstrators twice, despite a warning from Soldotna police. He was convicted by a jury July 11.

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