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Mower rider arrested for drunken driving

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Published: Oct. 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM

GREENVILLE, S.C., Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A man was arrested in Greenville County, S.C., and charged with driving under the influence -- on a lawn mower, sheriff's deputies say.

The manager of a Jack In The Box restaurant called police early Friday to tell them a man on a lawn mower rolled up to the restaurant's drive-through and ordered food, WHUS of Greenville reported.

By the time deputies arrived, the man had driven away from the restaurant through a parking lot. They found him nearby.

The man, Michael Ackerman, age and hometown unavailable, was arrested on his lawn mower.

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