General News: Riding Lawnmower from Alaska to Connecticut
October 02, 2007
On Monday, September 24, police in Cornwall ran into an unusual case. Officer Edward Mannion was responding to a report of a man riding a lawn mower on Route 9W, when he found Paul Woods and his vehicle pulled off the side of the road near the flagpole.
He was fixing a lawn mower that had a small trailer attached to the rear. The trailer had a sign reading “Need Food.”
Mr. Woods told Officer Edward Mannion that he was riding the mower from Alaska to Connecticut. According to the police report, Woods said he had been on the road for approximately one year.
He also said that as he drove earlier on Monday someone threw firecrackers at him from a passing vehicle, causing him to hit the guardrail and snap his rear axel.
Officer Mannion reports that he saw food, water, a tent and sleeping bag in the trailer and that Woods did not appear to have mental problems. Woods said he did not need assistance but if he did, he would call his wife in Connecticut.
A man named Paul Woods, a former Grateful Dead roadie, later turned up in a repair shop in Connecticut where he spoke of his long strange trip from Alaska with a reporter from the Hartford Courant. Read it here. Listen to him describe his trip here.
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