12-Year-Old Has Police Called On Him For Mowing A Lawn

A 12-year-old employed to cut grass for the summer found himself facing down with local police after a woman called 9-1-1 to report the hardworking child.  His offense:  he accidentally cut a part of her yard while cutting a neighboring yard.

People in the neighborhood confirm there are no fences between the homes, which did not give the boy any specific indicator of where he should stop cutting.

The 12-year-old, Reginald “Reggie” Fields, started his own businss named Mr. Reggie’s Lawn Cutting Service.   The child was cutting grass when police showed up to the Maple Heights neighborhood where he was cutting grass.

Police confirm that neighbors called them and complained the boy was cutting their grass.  The police informed Fields that he was cutting the grass of a neighboring lawn that had no clear divider.  The child informed police he did not know.

A 12-year-old child who started his own summer lawn-mowing business had the cops called on him for doing his job.

Reginald “Reggie” Fields, who lives in the Cleveland area, started Mr. Reggie’s Lawn Cutting Service with his family, and was doing just that when police showed up to a Maple Heights neighborhood last week.

Lucille Holt, who called Reggie’s Lawn Cutting Service to employ the boys to cut her yard, was not happy with the police being called to harass the young businss men.

“You see the police car right there?” Holt says in the video. “My neighbors that stay in the house right there ― I guess I have a line where part of [the lawn] is not my yard. They called the police to tell the police that the kids was cutting their grass. Who does that? Who does that?”

The police recognized the situation for what it was.

“A little kid is out there working hard ― heck no,” the lieutenant told the local Cleveland station when asked if the child was cited or arrested for cutting grass.

Fields had this to say of his encounter with police:  “I was nervous.  I thought they were going to tell me I was in trouble. I just walked away to another lady’s house and cut their grass. I just walked away and acted like nothing was going on and back in my own world.”

The troubling video and actions of the neighbors are the most recent in a string of assaults on young Americans working classic summer jobs.  Last week, the nation witnessed a woman calling the police on a young girl for selling bottles of water.