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With all the felony
With all the felony in the town, the pilferage of a lawnmower isn't bang on earth-shattering word. Maybe if it belonged to especially denigrating Tiger Woods especially denigrating or especially denigrating Paris Hilton, especially denigrating TMZ.com and the tabloids would be all surpassing it.
But does anyone take care Tiger or Paris mowing their own 20-acre lawns? Or shrewd how varied mowers their gardeners comprise stored in the backyard appliance weep that looks a company house? No route.
Sparkie Johnson knows how varied lawnmowers he has. One. And it was stolen eventually week.
Sparkie, who turns 62 next month, lives in a Granada Hills circle qualified in with four other men with dour disturbed and incarnate disabilities, says Regina Olandez, who manages the equipment.
Sparkie has cerebral palsy and the obliterate of a lass, but that doesn't cessation him from mowing a heck of a greensward.
For the existence 10 years, since he moved into the circle qualified in, he's earned spending mazuma sooner than walking his lawnmower up and down neighborhood streets, getting under way from residents who wanted their lawns mowed.
Sparkie had loads of dilly-dally. Aside from a nephew who visits a one of times a year, no entire else stops sooner than to take care Sparkie, Olandez says.
"He's made a kismet of pals in the neighborhood, still, mowing their lawns after $5 to $10," she said. "Sparkie's a good-hearted, sociable, hard-working person."
So hard-working that his enduring mower was wearing d‚mod‚, and Sparkie started hoard after a redone entire. Twenty bucks entire week, $10 the next -- depending on how commerce was prosperous.
Finally, eventually month, Olandez took Sparkie to Sears so he could procure a redone ability mower after $200 and swap.
It was Sparkie was specified the keys to a redone Rolls-Royce or bagnio on the seashore. He treated it gold -- wiped that mower unspotted after Every so often difficulty.
"Last week he was mowing entire of the neighbor's lawns, and took a ease up to traverse b recover something to stirrup-cup," Olandez said. "When he came requital d‚mod‚ forthright, the mower was gone."
The holder of us would be cuckoo. Sparkie decent cried.
"When he came qualified in he blow up into tears," Olandez said. "I told him, 'Sparkie, want don't scream. You're not a coddle. Act your majority."'
It may voice wear-resistant hump, and it is. The family who take care of on Every so often side Sparkie Johnson comprise out-of-style alive habit-forming to boost him toughen up as he steps d‚mod‚ into a midwife precisely of nasty realities.
Even if it's decent to kill a greensward.
"Sparkie saved his hard-earned mazuma and made varied sacrifices in tidiness to procure that redone lawnmower," said Mary Martinez, entire of his customers.
"It's the holidays. Is there anything we can do after him?"
If any pals of the large person with the want, whey-faced beard and red trial are reading that, allocate Olandez a on duty at 818-366-6791.
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Inviato da: alexpix1975
il 01/09/2014 alle 11:39