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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I have a simple solution for the neighbor, just tell the kid to cut the other half and pay him for both!
There is more at play here than just going over the line. The area under discussion is what about 4 feet? No, it is a racial thing. Racial + asshole= Problems. Sorry for that but it is what it is. IMO, this had nothing to do with a kid’s error, it was just the fuse on a long standing feud.
People like the ones that called the cops on this kid would not like me if I were the President. If I were, I would have one person, whose only job would be to scan the internet for stuff like this. Confirm it and then ridicule these people until they couldn’t take it anymore.
Grown ass people can’t go outside and talk to the kid? You have some hard working kid out there, trying to make a buck, when most have their faces in a phone or iPad, and they have to bust his balls. I hope the entire community shames them to the point that they have to move. I wonder what the cops did. They’d be filing a courtesy complaint on me after I got done busting their ballz.
This country is insane.
I agree with you, but in the modern day it's likely that someone whips out a cell phone and the next thing you know you're tagged as a racist all over the internet and news sites due to some edited video work. Still no reason to call the police.
you have become hard hearted if you think your response is acceptable.
I said I disagreed with the 9-11 call. And agree the owner....not the neighbor... should have showed him where it was BEFORE he started cutting.
I thought the same thing.
Yoi, and double yoi.
RIP, Myron Cope
I actually could see it being more of a fear thing, not “racism” between races related, rather stereotype “racism”.
But, what are most black 12 year olds doing? Stereotypically, not being industrious, entrepreneurial.
And it looks like possibly an older neighborhood.
So if you have an older person in that house, a bunch of “yutes” climbing all over, making noise (from that person’s perspective), could have all been fear related.
Feud could also come into play.
At least a tip for the part of their yard he had already done!
I’m just thinking of my own neighborhood. I used to cut the grass for a neighbor when her son was playing HS baseball. There were weeks she was traveling on weekends. I KNOW I occasionally cut a strip or two of her neighbors yard on my tractor. No one ever complained. We were just neighbors helping neighbors. Most yards don’t have bright yellow lines painted on the grass delineating property lines. Give the kid a break. If it had been my yard I probably wouldn’t have noticed unless he went two or three swaths and even then I could care less.
I hope you’re being sarcastic.
I hope this young man is a millionaire by the time he is 20. Shame on those who called the police!
I think this is really about the aggrieved having the opportunity to claim “victim status”, and not letting it slip by.
How about go over and congratulate the kid for having the spirit to work when so many young punks sit inside and play videos and surf the net. My hat is off to him. Some nosy neighbors are just pukes.
What an ass tying up police for this! My neighbors lawn people mow over some on my property too...all the time. I look at as one less area I have to push a mower. I only wish they made bigger screw ups.
Sorry you're getting flamed here, but you sorta deserve it. It's grass, for cryin' out loud. It isn't like he tore out her begonias.
And remember, grass is like hair. Cut it and it WILL grow back.
Jerks like this make this world impossible to live in.
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You must be so much fun at parties. The owner of the property who hired the kid is the one who is responsible for showing him the property markers. Do you really expect a twelve year old to have a survey of the land or to recognize boundary markers?
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