What do you do when you must mow your lawn and the mower wont start? Give up and leave it for another day? Try to fix it? Think about buying another? Well, those are all the normal responses you’d expect from people who aren’t derranged…

But this is not a normal person we’re talking about here. A man in America (where else) decided in wee hours of the morning that he simply just had to mow his lawn. That not being strange enough, when the machine refused to start up, he chose to teach it a lesson it wouldn’t forget. Well, it wouldn’t have forgotten it if it wasn’t an inanimate object, of course.

So what did he do? He went into his house, picked up a sawn-off shotgun and set about shooting the thing before dumping it with the rubbish. Of course, police showed up to investigate, where they found the man drunk, in possession of a bunch of firearms (including the illegal sawn-off) and rather unwilling to admit he’d done anything wrong, claiming that because it was his land, his mower and his gun, he had every right to disturb everyone else trying to sleep to get angry at a piece of metal and plastic.

Now, he could face a hefty fine or even as much as six years in prison for his actions (and the illegal guns). Really good advert for gun owner checks isn’t it?

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