I spent two and a half years fighting an impeding traffic ticket , funny how going the speed limit is illegal when a cop who's late is behind you and needs an excuse to justify being late.
When a "cop in a hurry" ticket me, he wrote "crossing marked lanes". His big hurry? End of shift and he wanted to clock out on time... after stopping at the convenience store to pick up two packs of cigarettes.
The fact that not a single officer was capable of the light jog required to keep up with a lawnmower tells me everything I need to know about policing.
It's gotten a bit better since I was in high school 20 years ago; back then it was super common to see county/local cops pushing 400lbs. I couldn't believe they were willing to make uniforms sized like that. The Troopers have always been in decent shape though, at least in Michigan.
I think they might worry about potentially getting shot or stabbed, and reaching over to try to pull the key out like Lehto said would put them at an even higher risk, especially because it's a felony stop at that point.
@@ianbelletti6241 I literally watched what I believe is the first one ever. It made national news. Mt. Dora by the yacht club, told my GF at the time; “That guy is swerving. How do you swerve at 5mph?” Couple minutes later, cops showed up.
Sovereign Citizen: “I’m not driving, I’’m mowing.” Police report: “Suspect arrested in possession of several pounds of grass.” Politician: “We need to regulate these high-power Saturday Morning Assault Mowers (SMAM’s). Nobody needs a 24” swath, let alone the dangerous dual-blade mower.” Environmentalist: “Get a sheep.”
When I was young we had a old WWI vet who would ride his small lawnmower to the grocery store. This was in a small town. but in the city. Cops just waved at him. Times are different now
Anyone familiar with that area of Ohio understands that fleeing from the police on a lawnmower is exactly what you would expect to happen in that area of Ohio.
Yeah, my best friend was killed during a high speed chase on 12/26/22 in Dearborn MI. Police were pursuing a low level drug dealer who had stolen his girlfriend's car. The chase had gone on for several miles on one of the busiest roads in the area during morning rush hour traffic. My friend was on her way to work, the day after Christmas, when the suspect ran a red light and t-boned her car. She was killed instantly. She was retiring at the end of January. But hey, the cops caught their small potatoes perp. I wish they had used the same discretion that the cops chasing the lawnmower guy used.
As someone who lives in an agricultural area, I see tractors running on the roads regularly. They are only allowed to use the roads between their own fields but at times they just cannot pull over and the rest of traffic simply drives at 20 mph behind them.
Massachusetts has a specific distance farm equipment can be on the paved road to get from field to field, specifically for farms with fields through which a road passes. IIRC, they have to remain in the breakdown lane if they are doing more than a straight crossing.
In Aitkin county mn a guy who lost his legs in Vietnam ....mowd lawns for extra $$ he was arrested for driving his lawnmower dui..on a small gravel township road...if thats not evil 👹what is?? Rip. Shorty thanks for your service...❤
Steve, I’m a local City Council member and did a police side along with our officers about a month or so ago. That evening, we encountered a gentleman who had apparently lost driving privileges, that had driven his tractor to the local vape shop. Having found this to be the most hilarious experience I could ever expect to experience on my ride along, I was intrigued to see the title of this video… then to find out the events of this story happened in our county, not too far away made my night. Great video!
Even the charges are those contempt of cop kind. The old man didn't have time for them. The cops are probably the ones who got his license suspended and he was still mad.
Almost all of those charges could be considered "contempt of cop" charges. He didn't "obey" them and hurt their feelings so they charged him with a "crime".
And so many cops refuse to learn that just because word fall out of their donut hole doesn't automatically make them "lawful orders". If a cop ordered you to rob a bank, it is still a felony.
Funniest thing i ever saw was back in the early 80's, i was in my carport working on my car when i heard sirens coming closer, looked over at the next street and there was an RCMP car chasing my neighbor from across the street on a go cart.....yes, a go cart. You had to see it to appreciate the humor .
Just a quick search on his history showed charges of domestic violence, grand theft of an auto, criminal trespass (3x), misuse of 911, criminal damaging x2, menacing, violating a protection order, arson, burglary, CHILD STEALING, endangering, passing bad checks and a slew of MV infractions. Not some harmless old man.
at his age he could be suffering from dementia or another disease that can affect his judgement. My question is, did even know what he was doing in the first place? would he be fit to stand trial and where is his family is he has one. Seems he a danger to himself more than anything and maybe he needs a nursing home and not jail.
Just a quick search on his history showed charges of domestic violence, grand theft of an auto, criminal trespass (3x), misuse of 911, criminal damaging x2, menacing, violating a protection order, arson, burglary, CHILD STEALING, endangering, passing bad checks and a slew of MV infractions. Not some harmless old man.
Could’ve been a lawn mower that has had work done on its engine and competes in lawn mower races. This sounds like a part of the country where it’s common
When I was growing up in the 70s, the family two houses down had a grandfather and a boy I went to school with in the house. The grandfather had a wheel chair with an electric motor. The grandson worked on motorcycles. He souped up Grandpa's wheelchair with a Harley engine, and Gramps got a speeding ticket for going 60mph in a 35mph zone. At the time it was the only known case of a speeding ticket being issued to a person propelled by a wheelchair.
It's been years since I checked into it, but here in SC it's legal to operate a tractor including lawn tractors on public roads as long as you properly display the "slow moving vehicle" triangle on the back of the tractor. No insurance, permits, or licensing is required however the operator must be at least 14 years of age. After some drunks using this as a work-around to drivers license suspension, wording was added to make clear the intent was to allow equipment to be moved from field to field, to be driven for repairs or servicing of the vehicle, or otherwise in the support of agricultural needs that operator has. Courts ruled that any bans or prohibitions on driving would still apply. If you drive it to a bar it's illegal, but if you grab a bag of fertilizer on the way it's legal. If you never had a drivers license it's technically legal to drive your tractor anywhere on SC roads except on the interstates if you buy a pack of seeds or a bag of fertilizer while you're out.
Steve just.... CUT to the chase. Then the boys called from the honky tonk Said there's a party goin' on down here Well she might've took my car keys But she forgot about my old John Deere
I had a friend who was a cop. One night at about 2:30 AM they got a report of a loud ride-on mower running up and down the street. When the cops arrived they saw the ride-on mower with straight pipes, and a man and woman in their 50's Joy riding NAKED. They ended up just giving them a warning on several counts because neither cop wanted to have to cuff a couple of older naked people or even be in their presence any longer than they had to.The cops helped push the mower into his driveway and the perps quietly went into the old man's house. Apparently the old guy had picked the woman up at a bar and wanted to impress her with his hopped up mower... How they ended up out there riding NAKED was was not explained, but it did sound like they were having fun
Yeah, they can't chase him into causing enough carnage on a lawn mower. WTH is with all of the cop pursuits anymore? A two way radio is faster than anything on wheels & they can set up roadblocks & the like, that are a lot less harmful to the public. Under supervised goons!
If it is a small town it could be just as simple as one of the officers recognizes him, maybe from when they took his license and they decided instead of chasing him all over town to just go wait at his house. My parent's neighbor basically did this about 20 years ago with almost the exact same charge sheet, he was so well known to the cops they were ordering him to stop by name. In his case the trespassing was doing donuts on somebodies front yard while the cops stood around waiting for him to run out of gas.
A few years ago in Mennonite country in Ontario a farmer went to a wedding but instead of driving, because he new he would imbibe, he took his horse and buggy. After the party he got in the buggy, turned on the flashing light, told the horse to go home and fell asleep on the seat. A provincial police officer noted the buggy going down the road with no apparent driver and turned on his lights. The horse being law abiding pulled over and stopped. The officer found the owner asleep under a blanket on the front seat and arrested the owner for a DUI. The guy's defence was that the horse new where it was going and had done this before. The driver asked the cop what he did when he saw the buggy with no apparent driver. The reply was that he turned on his lights and signalled the horse to stop. He then asked the cop what the horse did and the answer was it stopped. The judge's final comment was "What is problem" and dismissed the charge.
A TRACTOR ?😳? Oh no no no your honor. It's his powered wheelchair. Sure it has a mower deck. But that's not illegal is it 🤔 And you'll have to speak up, he's hard of hearing. ... maybe that's all the confusion 😏 , think they'll buy it
I heard of one chase like this decades ago. The guy was charged with DUI, on a lawnmower. And yes, those dash cam videos are extremely entertaining. I saw that motorcycle chase you talked about. Was amazed the guy walked away.
In Oregon everyone rides a lawnmower down the street... and a Concubine and a tractor and a.... yea dont need a license to drive a lawnmower down the street round here. SILLY!
"Felonious assault" is probably the result of them trying to stop the lawnmower and the old man steering into them or them getting hit/hurt in the process. Cops frequently claim that vehicles are weapons in cases like this.
From the videos I've seen they haven't worried about hurting people. When they do a pit maneuver they don't know if kids or a pregnant women is in the vehicle. If they chase bank robbers they try to get the money back; if they do a stolen car chase they bring back scrape metal. Isn't the car as valuable as the money. Most of the people running that they shot or crash and kill they know who it is or can get them later.
I live in a town of only 6000 people. There are two adults who ride lawn mowers to the store and a group of 3 kids who ride one to go fishing. That’s just the road in front of my house.
The charge of Driving Under Suspension will be tossed...there is no requirement to have a Driver's License to operate a lawnmower so there can be no violation for that.
I actually really appreciate them calling off the pursuit. Police should do that more often. If you know who the guy is or you got their license, really there quite often isn't a benefit to chasing them, and it puts the suspect, the police, and the general public at a greater risk. I remember one time there was a pregnant lady who was being pursued by the police, and they told her to pull over. Rather than pulling over on the side of the road, the incredibly dangerous suspect turned on their right blinker and slowed the car down, indicating to everyone with half a brain that she is intending to stop at the earliest safe location to do so. And not even 20 seconds into this lukewarm pursuit, the officer performed a pit manoeuvre, sending the pregnant lady tumbling into the middle divider. The officer could've just observed that she isn't refusing to comply and just follow her, maybe give her an additional citation for failing to stop if he were an asshole, but since he had the legal authority to pit the pregnant lady, he pitted the pregnant lady like the absolute asshole that he is.
mmm...was he weaving in and out and randomly cutting lawns along the way? You are barred for life from using a lawn mower... mmmm would you tell that to my wife?
Now I've heard everything. Police throwing the book at Grandpa because his lawnmower was on the road. Police are supposed to protect and serve! And if we later hear the man has Alzheimer's, they can't be prosecuted for elder abuse because of "immunity"?
It's even more fun doing a RUclips search for "low speed police chases." I found one where they were chasing a drunk Amish guy who had passed out in his buggy, and the horse was just routinely heading home. At one point the buggy actually hit the police car, though it can't have done more damage than a few minor paint scratches.
There was a chase here a few years ago (I'm in a forest in a mountain range), two troopers came flying up behind me and then flew past. A few hours later I saw a video of the end of the chase about 30-40 miles where I saw those two trooper cars. The video was because there is exactly one road. And there was a crowd waiting. Meaning the chase wasn't actually necessary because they were already waiting at the end.
Sounds like the character Richard Farnsworth portrayed in "The Straight Story." Great movie, for which Farnsworth won an award as an elderly gent riding his lawn mower cross-country to visit his brother.
Around here it's common for a line of cars to get backed up behind a tractor pulling a trailer full of hay. But if cop tries to ticket that farmer for impeding traffic even the people stuck behind the tractor will probably criticize the cop.
Crazy story --- here where I live there's bicycle police and I saw a car getting a ticket once and thought that's the saddest thing I've ever seen. I guess the only thing that would be worse is to try to elude the bicycle and get caught anyway.
Crashing a mower at full speed isn't deadly, but at 80 years, it's no joke. Could make the difference between picking him up in a squad car vs in an ambulance.
Critical info missing in this report? Was this gentleman's lawn mower set up in mulcher mode? Was his bagger properly installed and functioning? Also - no mention of the condition of his compost heap???
They called off the chase so no one would get....MOWED DOWN......Tip your waitress.
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Groan
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😂😂😂
Ba dum tss
i suspect that at 83yrs old he just stopped giving a sh**
I don’t blame him, stupid police officers and useless actions to ward old citizens 😢😢😢
Suspect mowed 6 yards and made $400.00 during the chase.
They call him “the streak”, after he left a streak across folks lawns.
Police call off chase of man on Lawnmower, after he leaves a wake of manicured lawns behind
It wasnt hard to follow his trail. :]
I suspect they did it on purpose to clean cut the neighborhood
How dare this 83 yr.old, mow people's lawns for free! We can't tax them! 😂😂
Ditto!
The man decked the cops.
He was a cut above.
But they eventually bagged him.
He was cutting through traffic
Oh, we seen what you did there!
😂
And had grass😂
I spent two and a half years fighting an impeding traffic ticket , funny how going the speed limit is illegal when a cop who's late is behind you and needs an excuse to justify being late.
When a "cop in a hurry" ticket me, he wrote "crossing marked lanes".
His big hurry? End of shift and he wanted to clock out on time... after stopping at the convenience store to pick up two packs of cigarettes.
I had a cop ticket me for a stop sign,, because he was on his way to or back to the station and I got in front of him.
Win the battle but loose the war...& is this the hill you wanna die on...?
@@JTA1961 yep if I don't stand up how can I expect others to?
The fact that not a single officer was capable of the light jog required to keep up with a lawnmower tells me everything I need to know about policing.
Trying to run….
@@major__kong What town is that??? .... asking for a burglar friend.
Too many doughnuts
It's gotten a bit better since I was in high school 20 years ago; back then it was super common to see county/local cops pushing 400lbs. I couldn't believe they were willing to make uniforms sized like that. The Troopers have always been in decent shape though, at least in Michigan.
I think they might worry about potentially getting shot or stabbed, and reaching over to try to pull the key out like Lehto said would put them at an even higher risk, especially because it's a felony stop at that point.
We take lawnmower racing seriously in Florida. You won’t catch us, coppers!!!
We also take our dunk mowing seriously as well.
Lol
"OH IM SORRY I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA!"
Tim the tool man Taylor might give you a good run for your money!
And that's why you have more drunks caught on mowers than anyone else.
@@ianbelletti6241 I literally watched what I believe is the first one ever. It made national news. Mt. Dora by the yacht club, told my GF at the time; “That guy is swerving. How do you swerve at 5mph?” Couple minutes later, cops showed up.
Sovereign Citizen: “I’m not driving, I’’m mowing.”
Police report: “Suspect arrested in possession of several pounds of grass.”
Politician: “We need to regulate these high-power Saturday Morning Assault Mowers (SMAM’s). Nobody needs a 24” swath, let alone the dangerous dual-blade mower.”
Environmentalist: “Get a sheep.”
Politician: "And tax the sheep."
GOAT comment!
@@user-no1caresnothing left to add now
Environmentalists; get old mechanical push mower. Sheep give off gas, which raises the temperature .000001 degrees in 20 years.
😂👏👏
Nothing runs like a Deere
Was just going to post that. 👍
Apparently Crispy Kreme donut in the belly of a cop doesn't .
When I was young we had a old WWI vet who would ride his small lawnmower to the grocery store. This was in a small town. but in the city. Cops just waved at him. Times are different now
I knew one guy that drove his mower more than 5 miles to town, mostly the beer store. Nobody cared.
@@timothybayliss6680guy was avoiding a DUI
George Jones after Tammy took the car keys.
Anyone familiar with that area of Ohio understands that fleeing from the police on a lawnmower is exactly what you would expect to happen in that area of Ohio.
Isn't that a rich area near a golf course or country club or something, might be misremembering, used to live out that way.
I live close to it, never seen it before
So .... _any part_ of Ohio...??
@@the_inquisitive_inquisitor Correct.
I'd vote for Trump if he promised to put a wall up around Ohio to keep those people in.
Picture it now
80 y/o man on a lawnmower OUTRUNS POLICE
Man says “them rev-newers ain’t catching me”
Yeah, my best friend was killed during a high speed chase on 12/26/22 in Dearborn MI. Police were pursuing a low level drug dealer who had stolen his girlfriend's car. The chase had gone on for several miles on one of the busiest roads in the area during morning rush hour traffic. My friend was on her way to work, the day after Christmas, when the suspect ran a red light and t-boned her car. She was killed instantly. She was retiring at the end of January. But hey, the cops caught their small potatoes perp. I wish they had used the same discretion that the cops chasing the lawnmower guy used.
At least they didn't tase him like they did that kid riding an ATV.
If had been Arkansas they would have used a pit maneuver in the interest of public safety.
As someone who lives in an agricultural area, I see tractors running on the roads regularly. They are only allowed to use the roads between their own fields but at times they just cannot pull over and the rest of traffic simply drives at 20 mph behind them.
And yet, somehow the world goes on.
Massachusetts has a specific distance farm equipment can be on the paved road to get from field to field, specifically for farms with fields through which a road passes.
IIRC, they have to remain in the breakdown lane if they are doing more than a straight crossing.
I presume they still need a valid drivers license to be on the road.
I live in lancaster county PA and amish drive tractors on the road with no license.
@@dalestoltzfus6166 But not against the established laws for them and those vehicles, I would hazard to guess.
In Aitkin county mn a guy who lost his legs in Vietnam ....mowd lawns for extra $$ he was arrested for driving his lawnmower dui..on a small gravel township road...if thats not evil 👹what is?? Rip. Shorty thanks for your service...❤
Steve, I’m a local City Council member and did a police side along with our officers about a month or so ago. That evening, we encountered a gentleman who had apparently lost driving privileges, that had driven his tractor to the local vape shop. Having found this to be the most hilarious experience I could ever expect to experience on my ride along, I was intrigued to see the title of this video… then to find out the events of this story happened in our county, not too far away made my night. Great video!
Even the charges are those contempt of cop kind. The old man didn't have time for them. The cops are probably the ones who got his license suspended and he was still mad.
I would love to know how they plan to justify F/A out of a lawnmower. His wheel fender must have brushed someone's leg at a blistering speed of 1mph.
Hit and run,
Attempted murder with a deadly weapon
All it takes is for the cops to say it swerved toward them at some point, whether it did or not.
He'll never get convicted of it, those are just butthurt charges
Almost all of those charges could be considered "contempt of cop" charges. He didn't "obey" them and hurt their feelings so they charged him with a "crime".
And so many cops refuse to learn that just because word fall out of their donut hole doesn't automatically make them "lawful orders".
If a cop ordered you to rob a bank, it is still a felony.
Funniest thing i ever saw was back in the early 80's, i was in my carport working on my car when i heard sirens coming closer, looked over at the next street and there was an RCMP car chasing my neighbor from across the street on a go cart.....yes, a go cart. You had to see it to appreciate the humor .
Surprised Ohio didn’t try a PIT MANEUVER on him…
Six cops mag dump him. Justified, they were afraid.
now THAT is a headline. the only thing missing is florida man.
This was Ohio Man, though.
I thought this was a Florida Man driving through golf courses 100% and that will still be my image of this story 😂
In New York the criminals wouldve robbed the guy for his lawnmower.
Dumb
@@werefrogofassyria6609correct. He's round on both ends and high in the middle.😂
Who books an 83yr man in jail. Smh. Just hide the keys to the mower.
That's what I think too. This is making a mountain out of a mole hill.
He probably just had a cold.
Just a quick search on his history showed charges of domestic violence, grand theft of an auto, criminal trespass (3x), misuse of 911, criminal damaging x2, menacing, violating a protection order, arson, burglary, CHILD STEALING, endangering, passing bad checks and a slew of MV infractions. Not some harmless old man.
@@dianeladico1769 That is bad. No wonder they knew where to find him.
Mowers don't have real keys. You'd be lucky if there was any kind of keying at all beyond a metal stick.
the felonious assault is because he either ran over the cop's foot or he just mowed them down.
Damn, that reminds me, I need to renew my lawn mower license.
at his age he could be suffering from dementia or another disease that can affect his judgement. My question is, did even know what he was doing in the first place? would he be fit to stand trial and where is his family is he has one. Seems he a danger to himself more than anything and maybe he needs a nursing home and not jail.
Just a quick search on his history showed charges of domestic violence, grand theft of an auto, criminal trespass (3x), misuse of 911, criminal damaging x2, menacing, violating a protection order, arson, burglary, CHILD STEALING, endangering, passing bad checks and a slew of MV infractions. Not some harmless old man.
When the Police got him to the Station he opend up. HE GRASSED ON EVERYONE !!!
It's hard to believe but he had a faster lawnmower than the police lawnmower. 😜
Maybe he can hire OJ's defense team?
Here in Texas we get the occasional drunk-on-horseback case....
That’s a violation? Isn’t it usually the horse taking his drunk ass home?
Mower identified as a mobility scooter
Could’ve been a lawn mower that has had work done on its engine and competes in lawn mower races. This sounds like a part of the country where it’s common
I was thinking more in terms of a pulling garden tractor, 8 or 10 ft long frame with a small block and paddle tires
But they’ll chase a black dude to the ends of the earth if he ‘fits the description’
Puts new meaning to "GET OFF MY LAWN!"
When I was growing up in the 70s, the family two houses down had a grandfather and a boy I went to school with in the house. The grandfather had a wheel chair with an electric motor. The grandson worked on motorcycles. He souped up Grandpa's wheelchair with a Harley engine, and Gramps got a speeding ticket for going 60mph in a 35mph zone. At the time it was the only known case of a speeding ticket being issued to a person propelled by a wheelchair.
Whenever Steve says it's it's a short story, I remember my mom saying, "To make a short story long..."
What was the initial crime?
If they didn’t have a valid reason for stopping 83 year old man other than riding a mower it’s an illegal arrest and stop.
I wonder if the old man started tossing acorns at the cops.
I've heard of People running from the Cops on a Massey Ferguson Tractor, but this is a new one!
It's been years since I checked into it, but here in SC it's legal to operate a tractor including lawn tractors on public roads as long as you properly display the "slow moving vehicle" triangle on the back of the tractor. No insurance, permits, or licensing is required however the operator must be at least 14 years of age. After some drunks using this as a work-around to drivers license suspension, wording was added to make clear the intent was to allow equipment to be moved from field to field, to be driven for repairs or servicing of the vehicle, or otherwise in the support of agricultural needs that operator has. Courts ruled that any bans or prohibitions on driving would still apply. If you drive it to a bar it's illegal, but if you grab a bag of fertilizer on the way it's legal. If you never had a drivers license it's technically legal to drive your tractor anywhere on SC roads except on the interstates if you buy a pack of seeds or a bag of fertilizer while you're out.
Steve just.... CUT to the chase.
Then the boys called from the honky tonk
Said there's a party goin' on down here
Well she might've took my car keys
But she forgot about my old John Deere
I had a friend who was a cop. One night at about 2:30 AM they got a report of a loud ride-on mower running up and down the street. When the cops arrived they saw the ride-on mower with straight pipes, and a man and woman in their 50's Joy riding NAKED. They ended up just giving them a warning on several counts because neither cop wanted to have to cuff a couple of older naked people or even be in their presence any longer than they had to.The cops helped push the mower into his driveway and the perps quietly went into the old man's house. Apparently the old guy had picked the woman up at a bar and wanted to impress her with his hopped up mower... How they ended up out there riding NAKED was was not explained, but it did sound like they were having fun
*Well, now I know what my next getaway vehicle will be.*
Yeah, they can't chase him into causing enough carnage on a lawn mower. WTH is with all of the cop pursuits anymore? A two way radio is faster than anything on wheels & they can set up roadblocks & the like, that are a lot less harmful to the public. Under supervised goons!
The rabbit hole of jokes that this one report produced is amazing.
If it is a small town it could be just as simple as one of the officers recognizes him, maybe from when they took his license and they decided instead of chasing him all over town to just go wait at his house.
My parent's neighbor basically did this about 20 years ago with almost the exact same charge sheet, he was so well known to the cops they were ordering him to stop by name. In his case the trespassing was doing donuts on somebodies front yard while the cops stood around waiting for him to run out of gas.
Was it Steve's old neighbour who was going round mowing all the bits of gardens (yards) that he thought were his?
A few years ago in Mennonite country in Ontario a farmer went to a wedding but instead of driving, because he new he would imbibe, he took his horse and buggy. After the party he got in the buggy, turned on the flashing light, told the horse to go home and fell asleep on the seat. A provincial police officer noted the buggy going down the road with no apparent driver and turned on his lights. The horse being law abiding pulled over and stopped. The officer found the owner asleep under a blanket on the front seat and arrested the owner for a DUI. The guy's defence was that the horse new where it was going and had done this before. The driver asked the cop what he did when he saw the buggy with no apparent driver. The reply was that he turned on his lights and signalled the horse to stop. He then asked the cop what the horse did and the answer was it stopped. The judge's final comment was "What is problem" and dismissed the charge.
"Now Steve, we can't have you driving a skyjack, down the road, drinking beer" 😂
A reenactment of "Straight Story" with Richard Farnsworth and Sissy Spacek in one of the greatest lawnmower journey films of all times.
Thay movie is one big chase... in a way. I love that movie
If you put an orange triangle on the back in some areas it is called "farm equipment".
A TRACTOR ?😳?
Oh no no no your honor.
It's his powered wheelchair. Sure it has a mower deck. But that's not illegal is it 🤔
And you'll have to speak up, he's hard of hearing.
... maybe that's all the confusion 😏 , think they'll buy it
83 years old? I have a sneaking suspicion this may have been a bucket list thing.
How ridiculous are these cops! 83 year old guy, minding his own business and these goof balls have nothing else to do but mess with a senior citizen.
I heard of one chase like this decades ago. The guy was charged with DUI, on a lawnmower.
And yes, those dash cam videos are extremely entertaining. I saw that motorcycle chase you talked about. Was amazed the guy walked away.
In Oregon everyone rides a lawnmower down the street... and a Concubine and a tractor and a.... yea dont need a license to drive a lawnmower down the street round here. SILLY!
They might ride a concubine in Portland but combines in the rural areas.
@@imperfectlump6070 I totally put the wrong word. HA good for a LAUGH!
@@Bryanhaproff I live too close to Portland and it conjured images... I stay as far away as possible.
I wonder if the old man was well-intentioned, but with a poor memory?
Nice subtle jab there! 😅
I'm thinking of the bicycle cop chase on South Park and the cops were scared at how wild it was, careening off the highway. All at 2mph. 😂
For the lady at the end I don’t have your words
"Felonious assault" is probably the result of them trying to stop the lawnmower and the old man steering into them or them getting hit/hurt in the process. Cops frequently claim that vehicles are weapons in cases like this.
Spike strips!!
Fresh hot batch of Jam Cruellers and Apple Fritters. That is a hazardous situation to initiate any chase I must say.
From the videos I've seen they haven't worried about hurting people. When they do a pit maneuver they don't know if kids or a pregnant women is in the vehicle.
If they chase bank robbers they try to get the money back; if they do a stolen car chase they bring back scrape metal. Isn't the car as valuable as the money.
Most of the people running that they shot or crash and kill they know who it is or can get them later.
I live in a town of only 6000 people.
There are two adults who ride lawn mowers to the store and a group of 3 kids who ride one to go fishing.
That’s just the road in front of my house.
allegedly one of Steve's best videos ever
I grew up in Canton, wild place.. the area this happened in is near Perry township just southwest of downtown Canton. Love your channel bro.
If that was Arkansas PD they would have pitted the guy.
*So Forrest Gump is still riding around on his Lawnmower.*
I'm surprised they didn't use the pit maneuver on him. I can't imagine they were concerned for his safety .
A great story he can tell his great grand children.
The charge of Driving Under Suspension will be tossed...there is no requirement to have a Driver's License to operate a lawnmower so there can be no violation for that.
They realized that laying down spike strips just wouldn’t be safe…🤔
The ol' boy is pretty smart. He can plead guilty and get sentenced avoiding a costly nursing home.
Judge: Felonious assault?
Officer: Yeah he hit me with his cane. 😅
"I'm in hot pursuit get get, currently doing 4 MPH and he won't pull over."
I actually really appreciate them calling off the pursuit. Police should do that more often. If you know who the guy is or you got their license, really there quite often isn't a benefit to chasing them, and it puts the suspect, the police, and the general public at a greater risk.
I remember one time there was a pregnant lady who was being pursued by the police, and they told her to pull over. Rather than pulling over on the side of the road, the incredibly dangerous suspect turned on their right blinker and slowed the car down, indicating to everyone with half a brain that she is intending to stop at the earliest safe location to do so. And not even 20 seconds into this lukewarm pursuit, the officer performed a pit manoeuvre, sending the pregnant lady tumbling into the middle divider. The officer could've just observed that she isn't refusing to comply and just follow her, maybe give her an additional citation for failing to stop if he were an asshole, but since he had the legal authority to pit the pregnant lady, he pitted the pregnant lady like the absolute asshole that he is.
mmm...was he weaving in and out and randomly cutting lawns along the way? You are barred for life from using a lawn mower... mmmm would you tell that to my wife?
Now I've heard everything. Police throwing the book at Grandpa because his lawnmower was on the road. Police are supposed to protect and serve! And if we later hear the man has Alzheimer's, they can't be prosecuted for elder abuse because of "immunity"?
Here where I live people drive lawn mowers everywhere. Even I sometimes drive the two miles to my garage to do some work on the mower
The police couldn't....
Cut it 😂😂😂😂
Most 83 year old have hearing loss and plus the sound of a lawn mower is loud. Would like to hear the outcome of this case.
It's even more fun doing a RUclips search for "low speed police chases." I found one where they were chasing a drunk Amish guy who had passed out in his buggy, and the horse was just routinely heading home. At one point the buggy actually hit the police car, though it can't have done more damage than a few minor paint scratches.
I feel like this was Stans grandpa on an episode of South Park.
Stan's Grandpa : "I'm comin Billy!"
That motorcycle chase in Ft Smith Arkansas was featured on On Patrol Live last night.
What do polce charging a person in their 80's is going to do?
There was a chase here a few years ago (I'm in a forest in a mountain range), two troopers came flying up behind me and then flew past. A few hours later I saw a video of the end of the chase about 30-40 miles where I saw those two trooper cars. The video was because there is exactly one road. And there was a crowd waiting. Meaning the chase wasn't actually necessary because they were already waiting at the end.
Sounds like the character Richard Farnsworth portrayed in "The Straight Story." Great movie, for which Farnsworth won an award as an elderly gent riding his lawn mower cross-country to visit his brother.
How DARE you call him old?! The president is only 81 years young too!
i giggled like a schoolgirl at this story....and i heard the benny hill theme in my head
I live one county up from stark in summit county, I feel so special to be almost part of the story.
Around here it's common for a line of cars to get backed up behind a tractor pulling a trailer full of hay. But if cop tries to ticket that farmer for impeding traffic even the people stuck behind the tractor will probably criticize the cop.
Thank you.
Crazy story --- here where I live there's bicycle police and I saw a car getting a ticket once and thought that's the saddest thing I've ever seen. I guess the only thing that would be worse is to try to elude the bicycle and get caught anyway.
You're not required to have a license or a plate or insurance or registration for that matter to operate a lawn mower😂
Crashing a mower at full speed isn't deadly, but at 80 years, it's no joke. Could make the difference between picking him up in a squad car vs in an ambulance.
Critical info missing in this report? Was this gentleman's lawn mower set up in mulcher mode? Was his bagger properly installed and functioning? Also - no mention of the condition of his compost heap???
All of those charges, save the not-having-a-licence one, are bogus, man. It's all the standard lies cops tell.
did the "benny hill theme song" played during the "chase"?
That motorcycle chase guy had a clean record, no tickets or anything. What was he thinking?