Apparently well-intentioned, but poorly executed: Instead of mowing the lawn in a friend’s garden, a 65-year-old in Telfs, Tyrol, is said to have simply set fire to the lawn. Ultimately, an area of almost 60 square meters of lawn burned. Police and fire brigade arrived.
He probably won’t ask this acquaintance for favors any time soon. On Tuesday afternoon, the property owner asked the 65-year-old local man to mow his lawn while he was away. “When the man returned to his property, he noticed that the 65-year-old had set the lawn on fire in the meantime and that heavy smoke was developing,” reported the police. Suspect ran away. An area of around 40 to 100 m² ultimately burned in the garden 60 square meters. The suspected ignition driver left the scene before the alert police arrived. “But he was able to be found not far away and confronted,” the investigators continued. Curious explanation for the fire The suspect apparently made no secret of what he had done. He also had an explanation ready: “He told the police that he had deliberately set the lawn on fire because that was how they used to do it so that the grass would grow back better,” say the investigators. The fire was ultimately quickly extinguished become. The alerted fire brigade, which arrived with around 20 members, then carried out follow-up extinguishing work.
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