Smashed a car widow with my lawnmower

kwerk · 12 Apr 2011 at 16:27

Took the lawn mower out and my car in the drive was fine. Go to put the mower back in the garage and the driver side window is smashed :confused:

I was mowing in the front the whole time so all I can imagine is I hit a stone with the mower (I had it on the very lowest height because I'm about to overseed).

It must have put out some hell of a force to smash a car window 30 feet away. Glad it didn't hit my foot.

That's why it annoys me to see people mowing and even string trimming in flip flops! I see it all the time. I wear thick leather steel toe workboots when I mow.

Archy · 12 Apr 2011 at 16:29

How did you not see/hear this happening? :eek:

Are you sure it was the mower?

Pawnless Endgame · 12 Apr 2011 at 16:31

Check if anything inside the car is missing?

xJcBx · 12 Apr 2011 at 16:32

Look for the stone? And/or for your radio.

Bleek · 12 Apr 2011 at 16:33

I've done this before, unfortunately it was the neighbours car across the way and not mine - I guess I should be glad the stone didn't hit me!

div0 · 12 Apr 2011 at 16:34

Check and see if the offending stone is in the car?

Then sue it for damages?

franco_22 · 12 Apr 2011 at 16:36

sue the council for having stones on your garden and for not installing adequate safety measures to prevent cars from being smashed by stones launched from a lawn mower.

mame · 12 Apr 2011 at 17:11

A few years ago my parents used to pay a gardner a tenner to mow the lawns. They did a few houses in the street so it was worth it to them. One day they came home to find a patio door shattered. You couldn't see through it at all. They just thought someone tried to break in untill the gardner rang up and said the same thing happend to him and they paid for it. Felt slightly sorry for them that all those tenners they had been paid wouldn't have covered it. Don't know if they had insurance or not but they paid it. Very honest of them I thought.

Raymond Lin · 12 Apr 2011 at 17:18

I would have thought its one of those things, an accident. Can't blame the gardener for that surely.

kwerk · 12 Apr 2011 at 17:18

Found the stone in the passenger foot well. More like a pebble actually. Wonder how many ft/lbs of energy it had.

kwerk · 12 Apr 2011 at 17:21

mame said:
A few years ago my parents used to pay a gardner a tenner to mow the lawns. They did a few houses in the street so it was worth it to them. One day they came home to find a patio door shattered. You couldn't see through it at all. They just thought someone tried to break in untill the gardner rang up and said the same thing happend to him and they paid for it. Felt slightly sorry for them that all those tenners they had been paid wouldn't have covered it. Don't know if they had insurance or not but they paid it. Very honest of them I thought.

They should have liability insurance that pays if they are professional gardeners and not gypsies or something.

Cool Breeze · 12 Apr 2011 at 17:24

Hmmmm anyone seen Final Destination 3D, has a nice lawn mower stone scene...!

BTW bad luck OP hope you get it sorted cheap.

Energize · 12 Apr 2011 at 17:25

Raymond Lin said:
I would have thought its one of those things, an accident. Can't blame the gardener for that surely.

A judge would. It may not have been intentional but it's still his fault.

Bleek · 12 Apr 2011 at 17:44

Raymond Lin said:
I would have thought its one of those things, an accident. Can't blame the gardener for that surely.

I paid for my neighbours car window to be replaced.

agnes · 12 Apr 2011 at 17:49

franco_22 said:
sue the council for having stones on your garden and for not installing adequate safety measures to prevent cars from being smashed by stones launched from a lawn mower.

This would probably be taken seriously and then the council would charge to do it for you...

ags

"andy" · 12 Apr 2011 at 17:51

Bleek said:
I paid for my neighbours car window to be replaced.

would you of paid them if they had asked you to go over there garden and they had left stones on it which caused the accident though ?

i admit it was good of him

Amp34 · 12 Apr 2011 at 20:06

mame said:
A few years ago my parents used to pay a gardner a tenner to mow the lawns. They did a few houses in the street so it was worth it to them. One day they came home to find a patio door shattered. You couldn't see through it at all. They just thought someone tried to break in untill the gardner rang up and said the same thing happend to him and they paid for it. Felt slightly sorry for them that all those tenners they had been paid wouldn't have covered it. Don't know if they had insurance or not but they paid it. Very honest of them I thought.

Dad did something similar a few years ago, we were cleaning up our garden and he was using a petrol strimmer. The patio door went from clear to opaque within a split second after the stone flew 30 ft...

Gives you a new respect when using those damn things!

Rroff · 12 Apr 2011 at 20:11

kwerk said:
That's why it annoys me to see people mowing and even string trimming in flip flops! I see it all the time. I wear thick leather steel toe workboots when I mow.

Having seen the carnage that can happen that annoys me to, people seem to have this mentality tho that it "won't happen to them".

Greenlizard0 · 12 Apr 2011 at 21:36

Seen plenty of garden facing windows completely taken out by strimmers. It's usually a garden stone or something, effectively acts like a bullet. :eek:

theNude · 12 Apr 2011 at 21:42

My parents took the **** as i was wearing safety goggles when i mowed their lawn on Sunday!

I wasnt using the grass catch and there garden has a lot of pebbles in the lawn from the stupid animals kicking them up.

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