Booze, malfunctioning machinery and shotguns,

[JohnK and Sheri]

don't mix well. :rolleyes:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_fe_st/odd_mower_madness_2

MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee man was accused of shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn't start. Keith Walendowski, 56, was charged with felony possession of a short-barreled shotgun or rifle and misdemeanor disorderly conduct while armed.
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According to the criminal complaint, Walendowski said he was angry because his Lawn Boy wouldn't start Wednesday morning. He told police quote, "I can do that, it's my lawn mower and my yard so I can shoot it if I want."

A woman who lives at Walendowski's house reported the incident. She said he was intoxicated.

Walendowski could face up to an $11,000 fine and six years and three months in prison if convicted.

A call to Walendowski's home went unanswered Friday morning.

I do understand the frustration tho.
Sheri

[Sundance]

LOL......... Are you sure it isn't the cheese???????:confused::confused:

[cow pollinater]

Haven't we all been there or at least close enough to understand?
Deranged? Yes.
Violent? Yes.
Better than hearing about him taking his pent up frustrations out on his wife or kids or some other unsuspecting victim in society? Most definately yes.
This world needs more people that are willing to have a few beers and blow their top over a lawn mower.

[cow pollinater]

LOL......... Are you sure it isn't the cheese???????:confused::confused:

You may be on to something there. That crap sucks.:D

[JohnK and Sheri]

That crap sucks.:D
You must be thinking that California cheese.:D
Sheri

[cow pollinater]

Hey now, Nobody does cheesy quite like we do!

[Sundance]

Please, no cheese wars.......

Your shotgun crazy Wisconsinite made the Keith Olberman
show tonight. Man, he does look a tad unglued.

[NeilV]

I've got the same type of lawnmower. Where do I get the sawed off shotgun? Bullseye got any in stock?

[NeilV]

Not only that, this is what I look like after I pull the starter cord 150 times in August (except for the moustache): http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Most-Emailed-Photos/ss/1756/im:/080725/480/0eb4df0e957145d8b454519f868ffa16

[JohnK and Sheri]

Please, no cheese wars.......
Hey, you started it:).

Yeah, he looks unglued, like he had been at that mower for a while. He should have bought a Honda. Ours has kept me sane. I could have easily shot the Murray we had before.
Sheri

[BULLSEYE BILL]

I've got the same type of lawnmower. Where do I get the sawed off shotgun? Bullseye got any in stock?

I DO! A nice Stevens SxS 12 gauge 10". :D Make you a good deal on it if you do the paperwork. ;)

Back in the mid 70's my roommate had declared his 1963 Impala dead and proceeded to shoot it with his Colt 1911. We were about 12 foot away when he shot it in the drivers door crease. The bullet bounced off the door without hurting it and landed at our feet. :eek:

Shooting machinery isn't always a good idea.

[Eaglerock]

It was "Justifiable Homicide"...LOL

[Eaglerock]

[QUOTE=BULLSEYE BILL;338260]I DO! A nice Stevens SxS 12 gauge 10". :D Make you a good deal on it if you do the paperwork. ;)

The bullet bounced off the door without hurting it and landed at our feet. :eek:

WOW

[George Fergusson]

MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee man was accused of shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn't start.

There but by the grace of God go I.

I once shot my wife's Chevy Malibu, back in the early 1980's. I didn't get in trouble, my wife only said I had to buy her a new car, which I did. I'd been working on the Malibu, skinned my knuckles trying to break a rusty nut, and just decided I'd had enough from that car. I might or might not have been drunk, could have been but probably wasn't. I ended up selling the car to some guy for $150, a good price considering I'd emptied a clip from my .45 ACP into it. Because I had had the forethought not to shoot out the almost new tires or the radiator (yet more proof I wasn't drunk!) he was able to drive off in it.

I sure hope this guy avoids fines and jail time. He probably ought to lay off the booze though, especially since he seems to have some anger management issues... nothing a good 12 step program couldn't fix.

It is sobering (?) to consider that this country has become a place where you might get jail time for doing something as cathartic and therapeutic as shooting a recalcitrant lawn mower, which no doubt had it coming.

[Oldbee]

It reminds me of this past winter when we had some record breaking snowfalls around here. 'Think',.... Abominable Snowman [me] versus snowblower that wouldn't start!

[J-Bees]

There but by the grace of God go I.

I once shot my wife's Chevy Malibu, back in the early 1980's. I didn't get in trouble, my wife only said I had to buy her a new car, which I did. I'd been working on the Malibu, skinned my knuckles trying to break a rusty nut, and just decided I'd had enough from that car.

well I took a match to a 1959 ford new tires with cragers, paint job an all. The motor blew up so a few folk ask me if I was going to sell it I said sure for what I got in it........ they offered me 50.00 and I told them 500.00 or I would tourch it:}:}

it burned right there to the ground...........what a big dummy Hu:}

But at another time I paid 100.00 for a 1963 Lincon Out in Idaho and drove it back home but when I got home and tryed to start it next morning it would not crank...... so I called a friend and he came an got me we went out crusin for chicks and did not make it back home for two weeks or more when I did get home the car was gone. I ask mom what happened to it she said I needed some cash so sold it to the junk man.......I went down but he done sold the car without the title I might ad but I still to this day have not found it.

[JPK1NH]

Man, he does look a tad unglued.

I seem to recall a saying about not judging a book by its cover.

[NeilV]

JP...,

A book and a crazy dude are two different things altogether. Books never shot anybody for one.

[JohnK and Sheri]

I seem to recall a saying about not judging a book by its cover.

Plus, Sundance was referring to the way the cover looked, not the character of the , er, character it covered.;)

After what he had been through, 'looking' a tad unglued is understandable.
Sheri

[JPK1NH]

JP...,

A book and a crazy dude are two different things altogether. Books never shot anybody for one.

And neither did this guy....he simply choose to take his wrath out on an inanimate object that he owned.

Besides who are you to play judge and jury by declaring him "Crazy".

No big deal imho.

Much ado about nothing really.

Truthfully its not even newsworthy.....its amazing that this refuse makes the news when the day to day criminal activities of many elected officials and the legislation that the bad ones force through Congress is completely ignored.

I suspect that we are quickly reaching a point where the National Enquirer may become more "Newsworthy" than the NYTimes, CNN and the other major networks.

[JohnK and Sheri]

"Truthfully its not even newsworthy..."

Truthfully, some of us found it humorous. If you don't, fine, go back to your NYtimes. But it sounds to me a good laugh would do you good. ;D
Sheri

[JPK1NH]

"Truthfully its not even newsworthy..."

Truthfully, some of us found it humorous. If you don't, fine, go back to your NYtimes. But it sounds to me a good laugh would do you good. ;D
Sheri

NY Slimes? No thanks.

Frankly I saw it as about as funny as some of the recent anti bee articles in the news based upon assumptions and misinformation.

The misinformation passes for news is damaging to all

I seem to remember a time a couple of decades ago when reporters and newspapers actually prided themselves on reporting the facts.

[JohnK and Sheri]

Frankly I saw it as about as funny as some of the recent anti bee articles in the news based upon assumptions and misinformation.
The misinformation passes for news is damaging to all
I seem to remember a time a couple of decades ago when reporters and newspapers actually prided themselves on reporting the facts.
Well aren't we grumpy today!! :D
As I said before, if you don't find it funny, fine. Personally some of the redundant political blithering posted here ad nauseam makes me grumpy too but I am not so arrogant to assume I should dictate what others find entertaining. To each their own.

As for news being better a couple decades ago, I am not so sure. Then, as now, you often had to decipher the spin. It was smart to vet everything you read through multiple sources, and politics often dictated what was reported.
I would suspect even then they had "human interest" stories, which some didn't find all that interesting. Nothing worth getting all worked up over, imo.
Sheri

[JPK1NH]

Nothing worth getting all worked up over, imo.
Sheri

I agree that its not getting worked up over, I wasn't....more disappointed with what seems to me to be increasing media bias.

Bee Regulation, Gun Regulation, Lawn Mower destruction regulation....

Too many laws and not enough personal responsibility it seems.

[high rate of speed]

Well sheri,
the bias and the humor was great.It helps break up the everyday hussle and bussle.Thanks.:)

[Keith Jarrett]

Too many laws and not enough personal responsibility it seems.

You got that right!

personal responsibility.... what that? in America!

It's like the housing mess, forget about the idiot that bought, the over size & priced house, let's see what our goverment can do to make it worse.

Sheeeshe, don't get me started on responsibility in America, that's make about as much sence as CCD.

[JohnK and Sheri]

Bee Regulation, Gun Regulation, Lawn Mower destruction regulation....
Too many laws and not enough personal responsibility it seems.
Now we are on the same page. Responsibility and accountability, on every level of society, including and maybe especially government, two concepts that seem to be getting rarer by the day.
Sheri

[cow pollinater]

I once shot my wife's Chevy Malibu, back in the early 1980's. I didn't get in trouble, my wife only said I had to buy her a new car, which I did. I'd been working on the Malibu, skinned my knuckles trying to break a rusty nut, and just decided I'd had enough from that car. I might or might not have been drunk, could have been but probably wasn't. I ended up selling the car to some guy for $150, a good price considering I'd emptied a clip from my .45 ACP into it. Because I had had the forethought not to shoot out the almost new tires or the radiator (yet more proof I wasn't drunk!) he was able to drive off in it..

George, not that I had anything against you in the first place, but I think I've just gained a whole new respect for you! way to go man!:D