And finally… out to grass

A boy trying to make some pocket money by mowing lawns has received a string of new clients after one home called the police on him – for straying onto a strip of their grass.

Reggie Fields, 12, whose siblings and cousins work for him, inadvertently encroached onto an adjacent garden when mowing Lucille Holt’s lawn, prompting the owners to call the cops.

Holt posted a video of the incident, which occurred in Maple Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, on Facebook where it has since gone viral.

“They said the kids cut their grass,” Holt told WEWS.

“They called the police to tell the police that the kids was cutting their grass. Who does that?”

Reggie told WEWS he hadn’t realised their mistake.

“They said I was cutting their grass. I didn’t know it,” he said. 

“I was like, that’s a shame. I didn’t know.”

His mother, Brandy Fields, told CNN that the police did not bother the kids but just talked to the adults and the publicity has attracted about 20 new clients to Reggie’s business in recent days. 

Fields said that people were calling from out of town asking for the kids to cut their grass.

Reggie, who is going into 7th grade, plans to expand this business and will be buying rakes for autumn and snow shovels for the winter.

“The City of Maple Heights is extremely proud of these young entrepreneurs!” Mayor Annette M. Blackwell said in a statement on Sunday.

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