“When the officer came up to me she asked me if I knew it was illegal to mow at that time of day,” Gage said. “I thought she was cracking a joke. Then she told me to get up against the car, and she put cuffs on me.” Gage said he mows in the early morning hours because of the heat and because it fits his work schedule best. “I just wished he would have talked to me about it before he called the police,” he said. “If people wanted me to stop, I'd stop.”