Posted on 06/30/2018 5:19:20 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio -- A 12-year-old Ohio boy's summer vacation was anything but exciting until someone called police on him for doing his job.
Reginald Field started a business cutting grass for his neighbors, but his service at one customer's house resulted in a 911 call.
Fields said everything was going fine until his customer's neighbors called the police, claiming the teen had mowed part of their lawn.
"They said I was cutting their grass," he said. "I didn't know it."
The neighbor told authorities that the teen and his crew had cut a portion of their property and were in their yard.
Fields said he became discouraged after the incident, but then the customer decided to post about the incident on Facebook.
The post received thousands of views and hundreds of shares, and with it, a business boom.
Now, Fields is receiving a lot of support and requests from new clients.
"Just give me a call," he said. "I will be there. On time."
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Actually it should be the property owner of the yard the kid was working at not the neighbor. Why should the neighbor have to confront someone trespassing on their property to help them?
I agree 100%. It’s the owner that hired the kid that’s responsible for showing the kid what to cut and what NOT to cut, not the innocent neighbor. Why should the neighbor have to get involved at all? This is a case for Judge Judy.
GET OFF MY LAWN!!! I’M CLINT EATWOOD. DO YOU FEEL LUCKY PUNK? WELL, DO YA?
For heaven’s sake!! Run a chalk line? Most of the professional services around here don’t do that (which does in fact lead to some interesting neighborhood discussions). If a neighbor is concerned, do what I did. Put up property lines for their own property.
Does he live next to John Kasich?
It’s only grass, you nut! It grows back in a week.
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Do you mean Rand Paul?
LOL
Sorry yourself.
Cutting some grass on the neighbor's adjoining property by mistake is not destroying property. Grass grows and needs cutting. What? You think the neighbor never had to cut his grass because it doesn't grow? So when he does have to cut it, he's destroying his own property? In a week or so the grass will grow back and need cutting again. No worse for the wear.
The neighbor should have talked to the boy and shown him where the property line was (the county doesn't spray paint the property lines on the grass) and asked him to kindly stay on the other side of the line.
Or the neighbor could have been magnanimous and offered the industrious kid a job to mow his own lawn.
But calling the police and posting this on Facebook says more about the pettiness and vindictiveness of the neighbor than the guilt of the 12 year old boy who mistaking mowed some of the neighbor's grass.
Chances are likely that the neighbor is liberal and takes offense at anything and everything in life that doesn't go perfectly their way.
"Most"? Should be codified into bylaws. The smarter kid-lawn-companies will recognize the inefficiency in losing chalk to the next rain, and permanently spray painting the borders of all their customers.
And, let's not get started on what kid-lemonade-stand-companies should do via the bylaws!
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Hey Sacajaweau, just how did you sharpen those blades on your famous PUSH MOWER, old guy??
Let us all know!!
This is a case for a neighborly chat with the kid and then let it go. Grass grows back. In a week, the neighbor will have to be mowing his own grass.
Calling the police on this kid and posting negative comments on Facebook reveals more about the pettiness and vindictiveness of the neighbor than it does about the mistake of an industrious 12 year old boy.
Chances are likely the neighbor is a liberal, who we all know are perpetually offended by anything and everything that doesn't go perfectly in their lives.
ROFL
Well, maybe the kid aspires to be a professional landscaper, but hasn't learned Spanish yet. Cut him a little slack.
There was a special tool to sharpen them. My dad did it for us. BTW....Not a guy.
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.... well said!
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The Sacajaweau Nation.
“Just give me a call,” he said. “I will be there. On time.”
That’s the way to do it, kid!
Sorry....The kid should have found out himself before he began cutting from the people whose lawn he is supposed to cut. He’s not a little kid chasing a ball. He’s destroying property.
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But he’s a 12 year old just starting out. He needs support and guidance from men, not the police.
Moocher got part of his lawn mowed for free. Of course, he wasn't going to tell the kid where the property line was.
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