Posted on 07/01/2018 1:30:45 PM PDT by BBell
It's a business that has existed for as long as there have been summer vacations and borrowed lawn mowers: A pint-size entrepreneur offers to endure the rage of a summer sun on a neighbor's behalf, pushing a lawn mower across high grass for a small fee.
Last week, in Maple Heights, Ohio, that entrepreneur was Reggie Fields, a 12-year-old middle schooler who is the owner and mower-in-chief of Mr. Reggie's Lawn Service. His sister and two cousins also provided manual labor in their neighborhood outside Cleveland, working a rake and a broom to corral clippings.
That's what they told Lucille Holt-Colden, 51, who encountered them at a Dollar Tree where they were purchasing a gas canister and some lawn bags on June 23. Holt-Colden thought it was a good investment. Her grass was growing taller, and her $20 would be used to keep this particular group of black youths off the street and out of trouble.
She was mostly right.
As Reggie and his troupe were finishing up her yard, a Maple Heights Police SUV rolled up in front of Holt-Colden's house.
When she saw the police through the window, she was surprised. Then, when she learned what had happened, she was outraged - and reached for her cellphone to share it with the world.
"My neighbors that stay in that house right there," she said, swiveling the phone as it recorded her on video. "So I guess I have a line where part of it is not my yard. They called the police to tell the police that the kids was cutting their grass. Who does that? Who does that?"
She captioned the video: "This is RIDICULOUS!!!" a phrase she repeated several times during an interview with The Washington Post, along with "Who does this?"
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
I see the problem. SWAT should have been called.
I’d take a wild guess there is more to this story than revealed.
I did not watch it so I did. Underlying threats I sense.
OOPS...….
Sooooo sorry, folks. MY MISTAKE! Now I found this! I could not find anything prior to today!
Her neighbors see things differently.
Linda Krakora, who is white, said she had lived in the house with her husband, Randy, and their family for more than 30 years. She said that Ms. Holt-Colden and her family were the bad neighbors, and that their relationship had become so tense that she now communicates with her through the police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/01/us/lawn-mowing-boy-police-ohio.html
My kids wouldn’t have even DARED to pull a stunt like that.
It would have been unthinkable.
I love reading the police reports,though-—always good for a laugh.
Ex: A car has been parked outside my house for 10 minutes——and there is a man sitting in it. Police come-—the poor guy was picking up a next door neighbor,who was running a bit late.
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How many blacks are killed by blacks in the country every day? and they don't make the news but this nonsense does instead?
Gotta keep that evil white oppressor narrative going.
“I did not watch it so I did. Underlying threats I sense.”
I seriously research stories before I post. When I saw two black women sweeping the next door driveway, I assumed they were the disgruntled neighbors!
So sorry. I now will be qualified to work at CNN.
“Miss anything?”
Yes. Your point. Calling the cops on hard working industrious kids is outrageous. Isn’t that enough?
Keep off the grass.
BUT, total over reaction by the neighbor.
maybe, but freaking out that police got called when all they have to do is roll up see nothing bad is happening and then go about their way--which happened is StOOpiD too.
and printing an article wasting news space on a trivial matter to manufacture anti-white propaganda is way more stOOpiD.
Turning it into a race baiting incident is an outrage.
Time for your new glasses ...
“Now that’s a different story....”
Yep. Not this one.
I got a followed in a store by loss prevention as a teenager a couple of times. It was no big deal. being robbed at knifepoint by a gang of black teenagers was a lot worse. But the media doesn't cover stories like that.
“The racist media won’t tell you, but it’s obvious in the video.”
Nope.
I saw the video and the woman who was shooting it pointed out a black woman and said that’s the person who called the police.
Thank you. Much easier to comprehend.
And the police who responded and the lady who called it in was fine with it. She just didn’t want lawn mowed inadvertently. She probably didn’t need to call the police but we don’t know the dynamic between these neighnors.
Civility. We need more of it.
Indeed some freepers here can't seem to figure that out.
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