Laid Off Lawn Care was robbed – but saved by Memphis again!

Laid off bartender-turned-lawn care-worker Scott Briggs stumbled across a brand-new challenge Thursday. But don’t worry, this story ends like so many others – Memphis answered the call!

For those who didn’t get a chance to read the first feature story in The Daily Memphian about Briggs’ journey earlier this week, the inspiring former BarWare employee was laid off from his job making cocktails due to the coronavirus and unable to collect an unemployment check. In an effort to stay off the couch and pay the bills, he put his neighborhood lawn-of-the-month reputation on the line by starting his own lawn care business titled “Laid Off Lawn Care” with only a borrowed pickup truck, a string trimmer and a Honda push mower.

Quickly Briggs piled up two weeks of work on his own, and received even more intrigue about his new business from the feature story and a call he made for free commercial Friday on 92.9 FM’s Geoff Calkins Show.

One of the calls he received was from Tami Sawyer, District 7 county commissioner. At first, Sawyer hired Briggs to cut grass, weed her flower bed, and take out bushes. She was satisfied with his work, according to a Twitter post, so she hired him again Thursday for regular lawn maintenance.

But this time while Briggs was removing branches in her back yard, he had two major pieces of his equipment stolen from her front yard, including the Weed Eater he had just purchased to get his business up and running.

The story brings a happy ending! Read to see the goodness at The Daily Memphian here.