Man who mowed lawn with tornado behind him says he ‘was keeping an eye on it.’
THREE HILLS, Alta. — A photo of a man in Alberta mowing a lawn with a tornado swirling behind him has been causing a storm on social media.
Cecilia Wessels snapped the picture of her husband, Theunis, on Friday evening as the twister passed near their home in Three Hills.
She said cutting the grass was on her husband’s to-do list, and as he started the task, she went for a nap.
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Wessels said she was woken by her nine-year-old daughter who was upset that there was something like a tornado in the sky, but her father wouldn’t come inside.
Theunis Wessels said the tornado was actually much further away than it appears in the photo, and that it was moving away from them.
There have been no reports of injuries from the tornado, although some other photos show downed trees and a barn with its roof ripped off.
“I literally took the picture to show my mum and dad in South Africa, ‘Look there’s a tornado,’ and now everyone is like, ‘Why is your husband mowing the lawn?’” Cecilia Wessels said Saturday.
“Our whole street, everyone was on their back patios taking pictures,” she said.
Theunis Wessels said he was keeping watch of his surroundings and saw the twister form as the swirling connected from the sky and the ground to form the funnel.
Both said tornadoes are not common in South Africa, but Theunis said he watched a TV program about storm chasers, so he’s familiar with them.
The tornado moved away to the east, he said.
“It looks much closer if you look in the photo, but it was really far away. Well, not really far, far away, but it was far away from us,” he said.
“I was keeping an eye on it.”
I hope he didn’t get his balls caught in the lawnmower!!!
His balls were made of steel, unlike most liberals, so no problem.
What kind of cruel parent names a defenseless baby Theunis?
See, now that’s the kind of thing a man would do. I man with a sense of adventure and nerves of steel. Ya know, the kind of thing that made this country what it is. Or should I say…what it was.
Is he the mailman?
This guy has set a very bad precedence for the rest of the married men in this country. It is very difficult to avoid yard work when shit like this floating around the web. Some one needs to have a word with him.
I would not have been able to take my eyes off the tornado to do anything else (likely including getting somewhere safe if necessary). Extreme weather is captivating.
Hell, that guy survived being white in modern day South Africa, what’s a little tornado going to do?
He’s part of the lollypop guild….
If he was wrong, he’d be up for the Darwin Award.