reynoldston
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Now come on everyone needs their toys, mowers now and maybe a little later in life another cycle. I was 65 when I bought mine.
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Now come on everyone needs their toys, mowers now and maybe a little later in life another cycle. I was 65 when I bought mine.
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Yes you sure have to watch the traffic, Also you can get hurt with a mower or any equipment if you don't use your head. Sorry to hear you sold your Harley but I am sure you had your reasons.
B ack to the original question. No. Where is this persons wife, mother, father, brother, sister, or friend. Without a domestic abuse or reckless endangerment of someone other than themselves i feel the law has no right coming on to the property. I feel the law has to many rights to infinge apon us the way it is.
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B ack to the original question. No. Where is this persons wife, mother, father, brother, sister, or friend. Without a domestic abuse or reckless endangerment of someone other than themselves i feel the law has no right coming on to the property. I feel the law has to many rights to infinge apon us the way it is.
No as I started this trend nothing other then the person just had too much to drink to drive a car down the road. Can he get in trouble driving across his lawn on his mower mowing grass, nothing more. I feel the same as you the law should not have a right comming on your property. I guess everone could have their own opinion on this. Yes there should be no reason for the law to do so, but who knows what ever unknowen reason?? maybe just to ask a question???
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Guy Busted For DUI On Lawnmower - YouTube
Found this video on youtube. Apparently where this happend you could get a DUI on your own property by listening to the video.
Found this video on youtube. Apparently where this happend you could get a DUI on your own property by listening to the video.
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The police officer said he was on public property that I can understand but said if you were in your own back yard also. I don't drink but I also think the back yard thing is going too far. That part of it is turning into a police state if you are not doing anything but drank too much on a bicycle in your own back yard. Sorry that is just going too far. Now if he went down the sidewalk in his front yard it is a different thing.
There are some members of the police forces that only have a Marginal knowledge of the laws in their jurisdictions...
By the time they become well versed in their local laws, they are usually about to retire... so the new younger troop is out there making the wrong statements again...
Laws allow you to do a Lot of foolish things on private property... as long as reckless endangerment is not involved... at various points, attorneys are plugged into our lives just to support some third party's need to inject their position...
I suspect it is all just more things to learn to tolerate so we can live in the proximity of each other... :smile:KennyV
PS... and like they say : If it's important enough... Or Stupid enough, the Courts will ultimately make the final decision...
By the time they become well versed in their local laws, they are usually about to retire... so the new younger troop is out there making the wrong statements again...
Laws allow you to do a Lot of foolish things on private property... as long as reckless endangerment is not involved... at various points, attorneys are plugged into our lives just to support some third party's need to inject their position...
I suspect it is all just more things to learn to tolerate so we can live in the proximity of each other... :smile:KennyV
PS... and like they say : If it's important enough... Or Stupid enough, the Courts will ultimately make the final decision...
Legally speaking, and I am, I have been an attorney in Illinois for over 25 years, on both sides of the fence. In Illinois, you can be arrested for DUI on a lawnmower, which qualifies as a "motor vehicle," and it does not have to be on public property. Just yesterday, I had a client who was arrested, asleep in his car, keys in the ignition, in a Menard's parking lot. Since it was his second DUI in 5 years, he's doing 5 days in the county jail and will loose his drivers' license. I never thought of it, but I have a tall boy cold one on the John Deere every time I do my 1/2 acre. I guess I could get busted for open liquor in a motor vehicle. This is why moving to Colorado for retirement looks better and better every year. The People's Republic of Illinois.
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Down here in south Alabama the law wouldn't mess with us about drinking a beer while cutting our yard. Now if you were at a customers house drinking (knowing you are going to drive afterwards) then there might be some trouble. If a cop messed with me in my yard I would race hell and open a law suit for harassement. That's just me though. Not saying that I drink and use my mower.