Thread: Some random patriot decided to mow the lawn in front of the Lincoln Memorial…EPIC

Some random patriot decided to mow the lawn in front of the Lincoln Memorial…and it’s EPIC

Posted by: Joshua Riddle October 9, 2013 4 Comments

This guy deserves two fist pumps!

From Buzzfeed:

The government shutdown has had numerous effects on people’s daily lives. But on Wednesday, one man decided to stand up to the federal government.

Sally @sallyhs

Spotted outside Lincoln Memorial - random dude mowing.
10:21 AM - 9 Oct 2013

Brandon Morse @TheBrandonMorse

A guy has taken it upon himself to mow the lawn at the Lincoln Memorial. God bless that man. #tcot #shutdown
11:42 AM - 9 Oct 2013


Armed with a lawn mower and a South Carolina state flag, he got out there and is making sure the damn lawn is mowed.

Thank you for your service in these troubling times, Lawn Mower Guy.




http://youngcons.com/some-random-pat...-and-its-epic/

Update - The mystery man has been found! His name is Chris Cox and he’s totally awesome:

These are our memorials. Do they think that we’re just going to let them go to hell? No… If they shut down our memorials, we’re still going to take the trash out, we’re going to clean the windows, we’re going to cut the grass, we’re going to pull the weeds, we’re going to do the tree work.

Chris was sadly asked to stop mowing by Park Police, but he definitely made an impression. Representative Mark Sanford saw the lone patriotic mower and was impressed.

“Chris embodies what it means to be not just a South Carolinian, but an American,” added Sanford. “He saw a job that wasn’t getting done and decided to take care of it.”

Here’s a video of Chris being interviewed by the office of Congressman Darrell Issa.



http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthi...coln-memo?bffb

If the Government Won't Keep Up the Memorials, At Least This Man Will Mow the Grass








Good news about an amazing American:

This via Live 5 News in Charleston, SC:

Fellow user @philfarley responded to the photo and said the very same man was spotted with a leafblower just outside the World War II memorial on Tuesday night. Once again, he was holding up the Palmetto State’s banner.

The man himself has finally come forward. Multiple news outlets have confirmed the man’s identity as Chris Cox, a Mount Pleasant native who is living in Alexandria, Virginia.

Dude is calling himself the “memorial militia.”

“These are our memorials. Do they think that we’re just going to let them go to hell? No,” Cox said to the radio station. “If they shut down our memorials, we’re still going to take the trash out, we’re going to clean the windows, we’re going to cut the grass, we’re going to pull the weeds, we’re going to do the tree work.”

Of course, he was eventually stopped by Park Police.
Exit quote from Cox: ”They’re going to be talking about the senators and the congressmen who opened up these memorials. They’re also going to talk about the civilians who came together and said, ‘Oh, wait a minute, we got this. We got it. Y’all go ahead and take another week off.

We’ll keep the memorial clean.”

What a badass.

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/10/8577...ill-mow-grass/

Thought the point of parks being shutdown because no government funding would have the park police at home on leave. Those park police should be arrested for working while government shutdown. Not like they are real cops that handle real crimes.

Man Mowing Grass At Lincoln Memorial Reminds Us That America Is Elbow Grease, Not Bureaucracy And Handouts… Feds Tell Him To Get Lost

October 9, 2013 by Sam Rolley

Early Wednesday an unidentified man took his lawnmower and a few tools to the Lincoln Memorial to provide free groundskeeping work to the closed Federal monument. Multiple Park Police officers promptly asked him to leave.

Via Twitter:



Brandon Morse @TheBrandonMorse
A guy has taken it upon himself to mow the lawn at the Lincoln Memorial. God bless that man. #tcot #shutdown
11:42 AM - 9 Oct 2013

The Weekly Standard reports:

It’s unclear how much of the expansive lawn behind the memorial was mowed, but Park Police were alerted and three cruisers with multiple officers showed up.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD watched the officers observing the mystery mower from a distance, as he appeared to be packing it up for the day, carefully placing his blue South Carolina flag in a tube attached to his tool-toting dolly.

According to Park Police public information officer Sergeant Paul Brooks, there was no arrest made. “He was asked to leave, and he complied,” said Brooks.

The lawnmower-wielding patriot was later identified as South Carolina native Chris Cox, who said that he decided to clean up the National Mall not for political reasons, but out of respect for veterans preparing to descend on the Nation’s capital for this weekend’s Million Vet March.

“These are our memorials. Do they think that we’re just going to let them go to hell? No,” Cox told All-News 99.1 reporter John Domen. “If they shut down our memorials, we’re still going to take the trash out, we’re going to clean the windows, we’re going to cut the grass, we’re going to pull the weeds, we’re going to do the tree work.”

Armed with a push mower and a chainsaw, Cox set about clearing a branch which had fallen onto a path near the reflecting pool and mowing the lawn around the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday. He said that he hoped more volunteers would join in what he dubbed the Memorial Militia.

Park Police reportedly initially left the bastion of citizenship alone– but he was later asked to stop providing the Federal government with free landscaping services for “liability reasons.”

He said, however, that he will do the best he can to clean up the area between the Lincoln and World War II memorials before veterans arrive Sunday.

Representative Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), upon learning of Cox’s endeavor, said Cox should be honored for his effort.
“Chris embodies what it means to be not just a South Carolinian, but an American,” said Sanford. “He saw a job that wasn’t getting done and decided to take care of it.”

Below is a video of Cox being interviewed:



While the man’s mowing is a small gesture, do you think more acts of similar civil disobedience by Americans throughout the Nation could send a powerful message to the Federal government?

Filed Under: Liberty News, Staff Reports

http://personalliberty.com/2013/10/0...m-to-get-lost/