Posted on 07/11/2022 2:35:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Florida deputies used a taser to stop a man who tried to avoid arrest by fleeing on a riding lawn mower on Saturday.
The Okaloosa County sheriff’s office said it was trying to serve arrest warrants on the 40-year-old man and found him on the mower in a backyard. They shouted at him to stop and get on the ground when he tried to escape on the mower.
Deputies chased him on foot before using the taser. When he was finally caught deputies found him with a revolver, a handcuff key and a pipe with methamphetamine residue
Florida man salute!
Anyone see David Lynch’s movie “The Straight Story”? I freakin’ loved that film.
Well, at least he didn’t try using his daughter’s
Barbie-Mobile. He would have gotten stuck in it anyway.
Somebody stole my zero turn and drove it 7 miles down the road to the next town over. Nobody thought anything of it.
The zero turn eventually turned up two counties over next to some meth head’s trailer. It took me 6 months to get the thing back and it was trashed by then. Ended up giving it away to the handyman that did a few projects on my house.
Yeah, what’s newsworthy about this article? LOL
Yeah, but what the bleep was the hurry? Couldn’t they just let him finish mowing? The guy had a pistol. I’m calling that lightly armed. My big mower has a rifle rack-—varmits, you know. This kind of antsy krap by the cops is one way people get hurt. There is no compelling reason to start busting taser on the guy unless maybe he was trying to break into a bank with it? And there’s no way he way “fleeing.” That thing can’t drive over a curb.
I know Okaloosa county well. Have to go down there for work fairly frequently.
It was a justified.
If he didn’t taze him, that cop could have been mown down.
Treasure hunts were fun.
I always carry and smoke crack when I do yardwork.
Doesn’t look very one?
Meth Mowing Marathon...A Floridalympic sport.
Not a Ztrak...those are Zuper fast
Some Scag commercial mowers are really fast. The Scag Cheetah will run as fast as my pickup.
Considering that one of the charges was stealing the mower, I'm guessing he wasn't at home mowing his own lawn.
Images of Conway Twitty riding to the liquor store floating in my head.
did Florida man Ricky Bobby strike again?
Because Trouble is spelled “F-L-O-R-I-D-A”.
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