<p>A man was arrested after police said he was driving a lawnmower while drunk for the second time in a month.</p>
<p>Barry Ridge, 46, Franklin, was arrested on a charge of operating while intoxicated with a previous conviction.</p>
<p>A resident in the 5000 block of East County Road 100N, which is east of Needham, called police about 5:15 p.m. Saturday saying that a man on a lawn mower had begun to mow his yard until being told to leave, a Johnson County Sheriff’s Office report said.</p>
<p>An officer found Ridge traveling west on County Road 100N, near County Road 500E. Ridge told officers that he was traveling back to his home after visiting a relative and that he had consumed three beers about an hour earlier, the report said. A test showed Ridge’s blood-alcohol content was .17 percent, more than twice the legal limit to be considered too intoxicated to drive, the report said.</p>
<p>Ridge had previously been arrested April 4 on a charge of operating under the influence when he was riding a lawn mower in a store parking lot, the report said.</p>
<p>Ridge, 250 West St., was arrested and taken to the Johnson County jail, where he was held on $2,400 bond.</p>
