This probably doesn't belong in the Comedy Forum, but I kept laughing.
Drive-By Bombing Via Lawn Mower
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
It was a definitely low-tech, low-speed attack, police say.
Steven W. Coleman, 37, allegedly threw two Molotov cocktails made from Budweiser beer bottles, gasoline and rags at his ex-girlfriend's house Saturday night, according to Foster's Daily Democrat newspaper of Dover, N.H.
Neither bomb exploded — the rags never caught fire, a crucial part of making a Molotov cocktail (search) work — but the gas fumes stank up the street so badly that two neighbors had to go the hospital.
Dover police quickly showed up to find Coleman calmly smoking a cigarette nearby, a third beer bottle in his jacket pocket.
A police cruiser flipped on its lights — and Coleman gunned the engine of his riding lawn mower.
The leisurely chase wound over several streets of the New Hampshire town, until a second cruiser blocked off the lawn mower's escape.
In addition to the third bottle — the report didn't specify whether it held gasoline or the original Budweiser (search) — Coleman was found to be wearing rubber gloves and carrying a book of matches.
Police booked him on charges of resisting arrest, reckless conduct and disorderly conduct. He was also slapped with criminal trespass for violating an order barring him from city-housing authority property.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140925,00.html
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