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Article: LAWN AND ORDER: How much thinking does it really take to avoid lawn mower injuries?
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- Boise Weekly
- Article date:
- May 21, 2002
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In my whole life, I've only seen two lawn mower injuries and read about one fatality. First, when I was a teenager, I saw where Timmy Poole's big toe used to be, before he ran over his own foot with a lawn mower.
The second injury I witnessed was a few years back, when I had a little talk with a man who was all covered in bandages and angry red marks. Curious sort that I am, I asked him what happened. He told me that he was cutting the side of a hill with his riding mower, and the mower flipped over. After that, he and the mower rolled down the hill together, playing an ugly game of tag. From the look of the man, the mower did all the tagging, sometimes leaving a little bruise, sometimes ...