Man Forced To Mow Lawn At Gunpoint

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Man Forced To Mow Lawn At Gunpoint Gets 20-Year Prison Sentence

POSTED: 7:12 p.m. EST February 7, 2004
UPDATED: 1:44 a.m. EST February 11, 2004

OXFORD, Ala. -- A convicted burglar sentenced in Calhoun County to 20 years in prison this week as a repeat offender had an unusual run-in with his victim.

The victim, Richard Bussey, says he drove up to his father's rural residence last summer and found a man loading furniture and other items into a pickup truck.

Bussey held a gun on the would-be thief and ordered him to return the furniture. Bussey didn't have a telephone, so he made 45-year-old Roy Andrew Gendron mow the lawn with a push mower until he could think of a plan to alert authorities.

Bussey ultimately took Gendron's driver's license and turned it in to police.

Assistant District Attorney Brian McVeigh says Gendron had been arrested 19 times and was on parole when Bussey caught him.

At sentencing Tuesday, Circuit Judge Samuel Monk says the case stands out for its comical twist, calling it "one of the better ones."

And McVeigh says if he ever gets in that situation, "I'll try to get some yard work out of the guy."

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daddo

Yea, but did he finish the job and edge?

select-fire

Wow, he could have turned the power mower on the owner. Chop , chop ..

bigdaddyjunior

I've got around four acres of yard to mow. The guy would have it easier in prison.[:D] Come to think of it, I would have it easier in prison.[;)]

Big Daddy my heros have always been cowboys,they still are it seems

mateomasfeo

Maybe if I held a gun on my kid...Hmmmm....





Mateomasfeo

"I am what I am!" - Popeye

select-fire

I bet the owner even gave him a cold beer !!

Swwbo

saw this post and my first thought was... Stephen would have to have a gun to his head before he would mow the lawn.. no kidding the man has cutted the grass twice in 23 years..

bigdaddyjunior

I love mowing the grass. I have an umbrella, beer holder and a nice radio on my riding mower. It's got a 60 inch deck and 0 turn radius. It's the heat.

Big Daddy my heros have always been cowboys,they still are it seems

pickenup

I like the smell of fresh cut grass.
I do not have a lawn, and that is OK with me.
I can smell it when I go to town.

The gene pool needs chlorine.

idsman75

It's a sad comment but the victim would have been sent to jail in my home state of Minnesota for confronting the man with a gun. There's a CCW provision in MN state law but you have to be a coward and retreat until you can retreat no more before you can use deadly force.