A man named Michael Brown threw massive party after being hired to mow someone’s lawn in North Carolina mansion.
It turns out, this landscraper took his lawn-mowing gig to a whole new level. Instead of just mowing the lawn and calling it a day, he decided to throw a huge bash with hundreds of guests while the owner was on vacation .Talk about taking the term “work hard, play hard” to a whole new level!
Michael Brown, who runs Brown’s Dream Team Landscaping, has previously mowed the lawn of a $4.3 million house in Weddington.
But on Saturday afternoon, the 37-year-old had other plans at the ritzy residence – hosting a massive blowout without the owners’ permission.
Hundreds of guests – mostly teens and young adults – flocked to the mansion, each paying an entry fee that Brown pocketed, according to the Union County Sherriff’s Office.
With music blasting and cars clogging up the typically quiet street, baffled neighbors grew concerned and filed complaints.
‘I was like, that’s not a venue, how are they managing this, so, we were disturbed with all the traffic and the cars and the people and not knowing what’s happening,’ nearby resident Wendy Squires, told WBTV.
Police arrived to shut down the illegal chaotic event and identified Brown as the ringleader.
Brown allegedly claimed he was the homeowner and the party was a celebration for his son’s graduation. But he was arrested after cops found ‘holes’ in his story.
The party-throwing landscaper was charged with breaking and entering, second-degree trespassing, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, injury to real property and obtaining property by false pretenses.
Brown posted his $10,000 bond later that day – and has shown no regret for hosting the rager.
‘I didn’t break the law, I just broke some rules of probably what the owners didn’t want me to do, but I didn’t break the law,’ Brown told WSOCTV9.
He also admitted to throwing the party for his son and his friends for a profit.
‘I just want to always do something where we could create an income and bring a positive environment for his friends,’ he told the outlet.
That ‘positive environment,’ according to Lieutenant James Maye, included ‘a lot of underage drinking’ among the 300 to 400 guests.
Brown claimed he was not charging an ‘entry fee’ but making guests pay for security – a story cops are not buying, with Maye saying they recovered more than $3,000.
‘The owner knew I was supposed to be there,’ Brown claimed, later adding he’s ‘like their son’ and is at there house nearly every day.
I mean, imagine being the homeowner coming home to find your lawn transformed into party central. I bet they never expected that when they hired Brown to mow their lawn.
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