Woman 'mows' lawn with vacuum cleaner
Neighbours were surprised to see a woman taking a vacuum cleaner to the blades of grass outside her home.
Homeowners often pride themselves on the look of their flowers or lawns. It takes hours of hard work and a dedication to creating a beautiful aesthetic to earn the respect of your neighbours. People will do whatever they can - purchasing special fertilisers, placing signs prohibiting walking on the lawn, and even employing professional gardeners - to keep their lawns looking pristine.
And, if the footage of this woman wielding a vacuum cleaner in her front yard is anything to go by, we have yet to see the extreme lengths that people will go to when tending to their front yards.
Neighbours of the unidentified woman were so bewildered by her behaviour that they stood quietly by and filmed it, presumably with their mouths agape. "I can't believe this", one of them is heard saying. Why would someone vacuum clean grass? And does this woman then use the same machine to clean the carpets inside her home?
But it seems this woman is neither a pioneer nor a person of questionable sanity: vacuuming lawns is not a new thing in the world of lawn care. Commenting under the video on YouTube, someone said: "I know it looks funny but I use a shop vac [sic] to pick up the cigarette butts that the idiot smokers drop. It's much better than trying to rake them up or getting on my hands and knees. That may be what she's doing". One more person supported the woman's strange behaviour, saying she may have been trying to pick up pieces of broken glass without hurting herself.
And she is in good company. Homeowners like Keith Trzynka of North Dakota, who often hauls out the hoover when he wants to get rid of stray bits of sand that he believes would damage his precious grass, have trusted the household appliance to keep their gardens in tip-top shape for quite some time.
What do you think of the grass vacuuming trend?