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Article: Tacoma News Tribune; The priority list for cops in [Derived headline]
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- February 7, 2008
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By Steve Maynard
Tacoma News Tribune
The priority list for cops in Fife, Wash., looks something like this: robberies, prostitution, car crashes ... and somewhere down the list, riding lawn mowers.
When parks workers want to cut the grass in a nearby park, they can't just drive the mower a few blocks from the maintenance building.
They have to load it up on a trailer, or they have to arrange a police escort, as if they were riding their Skag zero-turn-radius mower in a state funeral.
That's the law.
"That's really dumb," says Washington state Rep. Joyce McDonald, R-Puyallup.
At the urging of Fife leaders, McDonald wants to change it.
Her bill would exempt park maintenance equipment from ...