Man gets 20 days

The lawnmower man has been jailed.

Glenn Bowers, 46, will spend 20 days in jail and pay a $500 fine for his drunken romp through downtown Waynesboro on a riding mower last month.

It marks his second DUI on a lawnmower.

Bailiffs led the self-employed handyman out of Waynesboro General District Court in handcuffs Monday morning.

Police said Bowers' blood-alcohol content was 0.24 percent - three times the legal limit - when they arrested him Aug. 3.

The arresting officer also confiscated Bowers' beat-up Craftsman mower, and briefly kept Kazoo, the Jack Russell terrier Bowers towed behind him in a plastic garden trailer.

After Monday's jail sentence, the Waynesboro native has to forfeit his driver's license for the next three years, Judge William Heatwole ordered.

For six months after that, any car Bowers owns will be fitted with a breathalyzer that shuts off the engine if he has been drinking.

He can still hop onto a lawnmower, though. Breathalyzers are not fitted onto such machines, court staffers said.

Bowers was homeward bound last month when police say he ran a downtown stop sign. He had just finished a lawn-mowing gig and several Budweisers.

His first DUI came May 7, 2003, also as he cut through a downtown street on a riding mower.

That garnered him a $200 fine and a 10-day jail sentence.