Kansas YouTuber Westen Champlin was riding a brand-new lawn mower down a Derby street when police pulled him over. He makes a living filming himself driving strange vehicles, so he caught the stop on camera. He posted the clip as a video that has since drawn millions of views, and his caption joked that police had stopped him for mowing the city’s grass
The officer greeted Champlin with “What’s up, Westen?” He introduced himself as Officer Brown and said his son watches Champlin’s videos. They shook hands before Brown got to the reason for the stop.
Champlin and his friend Kyle had just bought the two red Craftsman mowers at Lowe’s, and the price tags were still on them. They were riding the mowers home to Mulvane when Brown stopped them. He told them they couldn’t take the machines onto a public street, since they have no tags and no turn signals…