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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

This website is cancer. Fuck CBS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

they'll be immediately replaced by a maga.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

What a hilarious way to go out. Darwin Award nomination incoming

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

How drunk was he mowing the lawn?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Coal industry, horse racing... some people are just determined to make the world a slightly worse place.

Also, how can one be "aboard" a lawn mower?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Driving lawn mower. Staple for houses with acreage.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Never realized it, but in hindsight it's so obvious. Of course riding mowers are not common outside of the US.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

the US, the riding lawn mower of countries

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Looks like ol' Johnnie Turner forgot to turn

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

These are the people in charge of running the country...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (10 children)

“Accidents” happen. (I used to be a medic, and I firmly believe there is no such thing as a true “accident”.) If you look at the whole scene, you can find the point on the timeline up to the “accident” where the patient got stupid. And then I had to be there.

And yes, drunk mowing is a real thing. I had to overturn a riding lawnmower once to look for a bit of finger. But the two fatalities involving lawnmowers I did, had no alcohol involved—just stupidity was all that was required.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Well, not anymore

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

at 76 with a reasonable amount of wealth under his belt, I'm surprised he was even mowing his own lawn

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lots of people love maintaining a yard or garden. It’s not work to them. It’s a hobby.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

100% agree. I love putting on headphones and mowing my lawn. Somehow it's relaxing. Shoveling snow, different story...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I think for some people it's like a form of meditation, especially for those with a big lawn and a riding mower. I don't personally get it, but that's the vibe these guys give off.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

ok so there's mowers you actually ride,... this makes a lot more sense

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Now why would anybody do drugs when you can just mow a lawn?" - Hank Hill

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

On one hand, yep.

On the other, I usually blaze one before I start on my yardwork / landscaping.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Blaze it Raze it Praise it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Getting high and driving slowly in circles is the best. I miss my riding mower but do not miss having a yard that required one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I bet, but I've only got a 1/4 acre, so I just push mow. Still makes it better, though lol.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I get it. We can easily afford someone to come mow our lawn but that’s quiet me time that I need so I’d much rather do it myself.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

What a shitty way to go.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I am so proud of my state

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I'm having a really hard time imagining how such an accident was unavoidable.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How do you "plunge" into an empty pool? Wonder if it was a mulching mower.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are definitions of plunge that don't involve water. One can plunge their hand into their pocket, for example.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can’t make this stuff up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Sure you can.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

coming soon: GOP legislation to block requirement of "don't drive it into a pool" warning stickers on lawn mowers

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

That is some real Kentucky shit right there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Seriously thought this was a headline from The Onion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The article I read recognized him for his contributions to the coal industry lobby and expanding horse betting. A real go-getter.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

This new Republican Lawmaker challenge is taking TikTok by storm!

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