Creative Yardwork 101 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
This is a personal account and I can only verify it by attesting to the fact that my father, the source of the story, never lies.
Two of my father's co-workers lived on the same street in Staten Island in the early 1960s and they, along with two other neighbors, decided to pool their money and invest in a relatively recent and timesaving invention - the electric lawnmower.
So pleased were they with their new toy, these boys were sitting around one Saturday afternoon enjoying more than a few beers when one of them suggested that the group ought to next buy a set of electric hedge clippers. Realizing that they already had a piece of electrified equipment that was equipped with blades, one of the group suggested that perhaps they could trim their hedges with the lawnmower and so, with several beers onboard, they plugged in the mower and each of the four grabbed a wheel. With two on one side of the hedge and two on the other, they proceeded to make short work of a usually tedious job.... that is until one of them tripped on a tree root.
All in all, three of them men lost a combined total of seven fingers. The man who slipped? He got a nasty concussion when the lawnmower hit him in the back of the head as he fell but was fortunate that he avoided being hit by the blades. Submitted on 05/29/2002
Submitted by:
Lauren C.
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