Neighbors call police on Ohio 12-year-old mowing lawn

abc7ny.com ^ | 6/29/18 | unknown

[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."

[wastedyears]

Is that the same kid that mowed the white house lawn?

[a little elbow grease]

"He’s 12 and qorking his butt off for the summer. give him a cold lemonade and make friends."

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......... yes

[AndyJackson]

survey the proposed lot the lawn is on, and mark the corners, and string the boundaries? If he really is serious, run a chalk line.

You do know the cost of a professional licensed survey, don't you? Obvously not or you wouldn't join Sac here in being a first rate flamer.

[lastchance]

So it wasn’t sarcasm in your first post. Maybe you should take up drinking lots of fluids and remember to wear a hat when out in the sun. You do not have to be a a professional landscaper to mow a lawn. Anymore than you have to have a degree in early childhood education to babysit.

[KarlInOhio]

And remember, grass is like hair. Cut it and it WILL grow back. 

Could you give that little pep talk to my scalp? :-)

[a little elbow grease]

"What kind of lawn service - with other helpers/employees - is this kid running, where he doesn’t engage one or two of them to survey the proposed lot the lawn is on, and mark the corners, and string the boundaries? If he really is serious, run a chalk line."

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The property was a little more complicated for a chalk line.

[Redleg Duke]

Lighten up. There are more than enough self-righteous jackasses in the world, already.

You should be better than that!

[qaz123]

And they wonder why so many people just want to be left alone and not be bothered. For the large majority, it’s not because they just hate others or are recluses, it’s because of crap like this and they just don’t want to be bothered with all the BS.

[unixfox]

The “neighbor” didn’t have the balls to simply go out and tell him he was cutting into the wrong lawn? Instead they call the police? PATHETIC.

What a nation of wimps we have become.

[DariusBane]

Oh dear.

[C210N]

Yeah, but obviously that photo of two properties must have been very well marked, for the mower of one property to mow to the ground for picnic use, while the “neighbor” property owner needs wheat.

[C210N]

I too took Sac as being sarcastic, at least initially. But I continued it.

[bigdaddy45]

Cutting grass is “destroying property”? Lighten up Francis. Its a kid mowing lawns, not writing graffiti.

[AndyJackson]

I get it. Regrettably, as we discovered, Sac was being what Sac regarded as “serious.”

[glenduh]

From the Daily Mail "Holt added that her troublesome neighbors would call the police at the drop of a hat. 'They call the police for everything, they call the police because my kids were throwing snowballs..." Daily mail reports these women appear to be the unhappy neighbors...

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

You sound like a sad, bitter, old fool

[PGR88]

When we were kids, the old lady next door would call the police when our basketball went in her yard.

[glenduh]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5902449/Ohio-boy-12-mowing-lawns-summer-POLICE-called-customers-angry-neighbor.html

[SunkenCiv]

Ya mean this one? ;^) Goats striking? Ya need to get ‘em laid.

[Blue Highway]

bingo.