{"id":2940,"date":"2008-07-26T06:45:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T11:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2008-07-26T06:44:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T11:44:16","slug":"how-does-it-run-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2940","title":{"rendered":"How does it run now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This could be a post on the second amendment, or on property rights.\u00a0The comments section will dictate that.<\/p>\n<p>I just had to put it up because&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;because I thought it was so damn funny.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/CRIME\/07\/25\/mower.madness.ap\/index.html\">Man shoots his lawn mower, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) <\/strong>&#8212; A 56-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn&#8217;t start.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><!--startclickprintexclude--><!-- PURGE: \/2008\/CRIME\/07\/25\/mower.madness.ap\/art.mower.ap.jpg --><!-- KEEP -->Keith Walendowski has been charged with felony possession of a short-barreled shotgun or rifle and misdemeanor disorderly conduct while armed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal complaint, Walendowski says he was angry because his Lawn Boy wouldn&#8217;t start Wednesday morning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not exactly an endorsment for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawnboy.com\/\">Lawn Boy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Right off the bat, I can empathize. Lawn mowers don&#8217;t have a complicated life. They start, they run, they cut. In that order. A lawn mower unable to perform any of these three elements would foster hatred in the heart of any property owner.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0He told police: &#8220;I can do that, it&#8217;s my lawn mower and my yard so I can shoot it if I want.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, fearless readers, who wants to handle <em>that<\/em> one?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman who lives at Walendowski&#8217;s house reported the incident. She says he was intoxicated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, really?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Walendowski could face up to an $11,000 fine and six years and three months in prison if convicted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow. That would have paid for years of lawnmower tune-ups and oil changes. Heck, that would have paid for years of lawn mowers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A call to Walendowski&#8217;s home went unanswered Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, what could possibly come of <em>that<\/em> conversation? Again, the comments section might offer some insight here as well. Anyone up to the task?<\/p>\n<p>There was no information available on the condition of the lawn mower.<\/p>\n<p>There was no mention of Brett Favre in the article either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could be a post on the second amendment, or on property rights.\u00a0The comments section will dictate that. I just had to put it up because&#8230; \u00a0 &#8230;because I thought it was so damn funny. \u00a0 Man shoots his lawn mower, police say MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) &#8212; A 56-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of shooting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}