Look out - he’s got a riding mower.
VANCOUVER, Wash. - A man led police on a very slow-speed chase, refusing to stop while riding a lawn mower at about 3 mph across a busy street and steering it toward an officer before he was grabbed and arrested, a police report says.
It’s the northwest. All that rain, all those overgrown lawns… it’s enough to drive a man mad. Mad, I tell you.
The lawnmower man remains in Clark County (Not Kitsap!) jail “with bail set at $40,000.” Forty grand? For jayriding at 3 mph? If I’m ever in Vancouver, I’ll make sure not to step outside the crosswalk.
4 responses so far ↓
C.D. Reimer // February 28, 2008 at 6:46 pm
A few months ago a drunk man in the Midwest drove his lawn mower in a snowstorm to get booze because his wife took the car to work.
Some of this stuff you just cannot make up. :p
Dan // February 28, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Just for the record, it was a lawn tractor - and I wasn’t that drunk.
Kidding aside, my neighbor was recently cited for using his snowmobile on residential streets. He admitted to the police officer that it was a juvenile thing to do and he was ticketed for it. The fine was $15.00. Forty grand does seem a bit excessive.
In my neighbor’s defense, we’ve had almost 60 inches of snowfall in Chicago this winter. Although it’s far from a record, the winters have been reasonably mild in recent years. This winter does not seem to have an end. We’re all getting a little stir-crazy here in the Windy City.
Ken // February 29, 2008 at 7:55 am
For sheer stupidity, this takes some beating http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/5565854.html
C.D. Reimer // March 1, 2008 at 3:37 am
Heard on the radio this morning that a man was arrested for walking out of a store with a business suit under his clothes. He forgot to remove the coat hanger. Go figure.
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