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To: IYAS9YAS

What’s your stance? Should a guy operating a lawnmower on public roads while drunk get charged with a DUI?


7 posted on 11/25/2009 9:25:44 AM PST by Dan Nunn (Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise. -The Great One)
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To: Dan Nunn
What’s your stance? Should a guy operating a lawnmower on public roads while drunk get charged with a DUI?

No. Maybe drunk in public, or some other similar thing.

I look at it this way: A lawnmower is not a motor vehicle by definition, as it cannot be legally registered and operated on a highway - some states also require recreational vehicles (ATVs, Dirt bikes, snowmobiles, etc...) to have registration stickers for use on public land. Lawnmowers don't fit this category, either.

It may fall under a similar category as a farm implement that may be operated in short duration on the highway between fields. If there is a rule against that, or a rule against operating unregistered, self-propelled devices on the highway, then maybe.

12 posted on 11/25/2009 9:51:26 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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