Police arrested Bemidji, Minnesota man Chad Pickering yesterday for allegedly shooting his 17-year-old neighbor three times after she told him to stop riding his lawnmower into her yard.

Our favorite story of 2011—"Man Eats His Own Beard at Knifepoint Over Botched Lawnmower Sale"—may soon come to a conclusion, with the aggressors thrown in jail for failing to pay the $570 restitution ordered by the court.

Here in New York City, we are awed and frightened by hailstorms, which seem to us as eclipses must have once seemed to premodern humanity. In Indiana, one-and-a-half-inch hail just means you have to put your t-shirt over your head while you mow your lawn, as this gentleman demonstrates.[via I Heart Chaos]

Kentuckian Harvey Westmoreland didn't want any trouble when he tried to sell his lawnmower to some friends. But trouble sure found him. What happened, Harvey? "[E]verything just went haywire... They cut my beard and forced me to eat it."

Technician Bobby Cleveland got his lawn-mower up to 96 miles per hour, good enough for a new world record. Watching that baby streak across the barren landscape of Utah's Salt Flats is a true thing of beauty.