A neighbour called the police on a 12-year-old entrepreneur as he was mowing a lawn last week and mistakenly strayed into their yard. But the neighbour's overreaction has now helped the young entrepreneur get lots of new clients after they heard his story.
Reggie Fields, 12, runs Mr. Reggie's Lawn Cutting Service in the Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Maple Heights. He has his cousins and his brothers and sisters working for him.
Last week, Reggie and his crew were mowing a lawn when the police showed up. Lucille Holt, the woman who hired Reggie to mow her lawn, told CNN affiliate WEWS that neighbors called the police because the children inadvertently strayed into a thin strip of their yard while mowing hers.
"They said the kids cut their grass," Holt told WEWS.
Holt posted a live video of what was happening on Facebook, where it got almost a half a million views.
"They called the police to tell the police that the kids was cutting their grass. Who does that?" she said in the video.
Reggie told WEWS he didn't realize they were in the neighbor's yard.
"They said I was cutting their grass. I didn't know it," he said. "I was like, that's a shame. I didn't know."
Reggie's mom, Brandy Fields, told CNN that the police just talked to the adults and did not bother the kids.
After the incident with the neighbours and police, Reggie got even more new clients. Reggie's mum said they were mowing four or five yards a day before all of the attention but he has now picked up about 20 new clients in recent days.
"Some people are calling from out of town, saying, 'Can you come cut my grass?,'" Reggie's mother said.
In a statement Sunday, the Mayor of Maple Heights, Annette M. Blackwell, said the city is proud of Reggie and his siblings.
"The City of Maple Heights is extremely proud of these young entrepreneurs!" Mayor Annette M. Blackwell said in the statement, calling the episode "a very heartwarming story and testament to the great children and generous people that live here."
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