Man Shoots Lawn Mower

What an idiot. 

A 57-year-old south side man, who might have been struggling with a hangover, is charged today with shooting his lawn mower with a sawed-off shotgun.

“I’ll tell you the truth,” a criminal complaint quotes an apparently inebriated Keith Walendowski. “I got pissed because my lawn mower wouldn’t start, so I got my shotgun and shot it.

“I can do that. It’s my lawn mower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I want,” Walendowski told police.

Ignorance of the law, however, is not a legal defense.

Walendowski is charged with a felony count of possessing a short-barreled shotgun and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct while armed. If convicted of both charges, he faces up to six years and nine months in prison.

But this really bothers me:

Police recovered the shotgun, shells, a handgun, rounds for the handgun and a stun gun.

I can understand confiscating the shotgun because it’s evidence in connection with the alleged commission of a crime, but why did the police confiscate the handgun, handgun ammunition, and stun gun?  Since I presume that they confiscated them after he was in custody and was of no threat to them, why did they do it?  I’d be majorly ticked off if I was arrested for something and they confiscated all of my guns.  And does he have to wait until his case is over before he can get the handgun back?

Perhaps some of our lawyer and law enforcement readers can enlighten me.