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VASSALBORO, Maine (AP) - A Maine man has been charged with operating under the influence after he and a friend made a beer run on a riding lawn mower. Police say 51-year-old Danforth Ross of Vassalboro was charged May 29. Trooper Joe Chretien had been flagged down by several motorists warning of a wayward mower and made the arrest after Ross and his friend emerged from a variety store with two cases of beer.

A four-year-old Mooresville boy is fighting for his life after being injured by a lawn mower April 22. Preston Loyd was playing in the yard of his Corona Circle home when he was accidentally run over by a lawn mower operated by his grandfather. Preston is the son of Mooresville residents Ashton and Cinamon Loyd, and a preschooler at Peninsula Baptist Church. "My father did not know Preston was near, and accidently backed over him," Ashton Loyd wrote on a Web site where he is keeping friends and neighbors updated on Preston's condition. With extensive injuries, especially to his left...

Well, since I'm already off-topic today, I can't resist posting this too funny to be real video of a man named Steve being arrested for DUI on a lawnmower! I guess it's been around for several months, but I just saw it today. The guy resists the officer and even gets tasered! It's so pathetic I thought it was a put up deal, but I think it actually happened. I promise to get back on the topic of politics after this! . . . . . (Watch Video)

Odd Box: The week's weird videosThe Lingerie Football League, lawnmower racing, a giant cow and a stupid car thief. It's Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.

A 57-year-old south side man, who might have been struggling with a hangover, was charged Friday with shooting his lawn mower with a sawed-off shotgun. “I’ll tell you the truth,” a criminal complaint quotes an apparently inebriated Keith Walendowski. “I got pissed because my lawn mower wouldn’t start, so I got my shotgun and shot it.“I can do that. It’s my lawn mower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I want,” Walendowski told police. Ignorance of the law, however, is not a legal defense. Walendowski is charged with a felony count of possessing a short-barreled shotgun and...

FRIDAY, July 25, 2008, 11:49 a.m. By Crocker Stephenson Man charged with shooting lawn mower Keith Walendowski Keith Walendowski is charged with shooting a lawn mower. A 57-year-old south side man, who might have been struggling with a hangover, is charged today with shooting his lawn mower with a sawed-off shotgun. "I'll tell you the truth," a criminal complaint quotes an apparently inebriated Keith Walendowski. "I got pissed because my lawn mower wouldn't start, so I got my shotgun and shot it. "I can do that. It's my lawn mower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I...

My uncle in law gave me a Honda Lawnmower. It was put in a shed and left there for 10 years. It worked when it went in, doesn't work now that it came out (i.e. won't start). Any suggestions on where to start in trying to get it to work?

WASHINGTON -- Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said allowing more skilled immigrants to work in the United States would help keep the income gap from widening. Inequality of incomes is the "critical area where capitalist systems are most vulnerable," Greenspan said yesterday in Washington at a conference on maintaining the competitiveness of US capital markets convened by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. "You cannot have a system that we have unless the people who participate in it believe it is just." Allowing more skilled workers into the country would bring down the salaries of top earners in the United States,...

This lawnmower commercial is too funny not to share: http://youtube.com/watch?v=fBbp4-fQNls

Man Sets Lawn Mower Speed Record Mower Goes More Than 80 MPH POSTED: 4:22 pm EDT July 5, 2006 BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, Utah -- A new speed record was set in Utah on Tuesday -- on a lawn mower. Bob Cleveland went more than 80 mph on his lawn mower across the Bonneville Salt Flats. Since there is no record for fastest lawn mower, Cleveland won by default. On the downside, he won't be able to get his yard work done any faster. He said the mower doesn't cut grass, it just goes fast.

WASHINGTON - The lawn mower war may be heating up again. A truce reached two years ago between Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Christopher Bond, R-Mo., was on the verge of collapsing Wednesday over a Bond amendment to a spending bill for the Environmental Protection Agency that could delay - maybe permanently - state rules reducing small-engine pollution. "I am deeply concerned," Feinstein said. A spokesman for Bond insisted Feinstein was misreading the amendment. "California can still do whatever it wants," said Rob Ostrander. Not according to the California Air Resources Board, however. Barbara Riordan, acting chairwoman of the board,...

HAUGESUND, Norway -- An unusual aircraft took off recently from an airport in Norway.Tor Anderson built a flying lawnmower from instructions and drawings he received from the United States.Anderson said he worked on the contraption for two weeks before its maiden flight at Haugesund Airport.The lawnmower took off and circled before landing.

Mon Nov 18, 5:15 PM ET Segway LLC, makers of a much-hyped electric-powered scooter that has captured the imagination of many technophiles, said on November 18, 2002 that consumers could begin ordering the pricey vehicles on Amazon.com for $4,950. Deliveries start in March on a first come, first served basis. Boston police officers Vincent Stancato (L) and Kevin Griffith try out the Segway device Dec. 7, 2001. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)

<p>FAIRFIELD, Ill. -- It's hardly the fastest thing on the road, but police say a red riding lawn mower was an effective getaway vehicle for a burglar.</p> <p>Witnesses told police they saw the suspect driving the mower away from a home where an intruder made off with more than $1,000 in jewelry Monday.</p>

Robot Grass Cutter Cuts Through Tedium of Mowing Fri Aug 16, 2:18 AM ET WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Tired of mowing the lawn? New Zealand researchers say they have a device that could make your neighbors green with envy. It's a lawnmower operated via the Internet. The robotic grass cutter is controlled through a web page which monitors the mower by a small camera on the side of a house. "What our technology allows us to do is to control lawnmowers and other robotic devices while people are away at work," Massey University's Glen Bright told Reuters. The electric mower, smaller...