Manitoba RCMP bag man on lawn mower for impaired operation of motor vehicle

WINNIPEG — A Manitoba man found driving a lawn mower on a road leading to the Trans-Canada Highway in the dark has been charged with impaired operation of a motor vehicle.

RCMP say officers pulled over a man on a John Deere riding mower in the rural municipality of Headingley at around 2 a.m. Saturday.

The man told the Mounties he was heading to a gas station to buy smokes and figured it was “responsible” to ride his lawn mower instead of a car.

A 39-year-old woman was along for the ride.