Earlier this month, police say, Nathan Lee Lafromboise proved he’d do anything

Published 7:00 am Thursday, April 7, 2011

Earlier this month, police say, Nathan Lee Lafromboise proved he’d do anything for a buck. Now they say he’d also do anything for love. In the first incident, Lafromboise and a trio of loose women supposedly set up a scheme where the ladies went into a bar in south Everett looking for a gullible man to rob. After convincing some poor sap to “come party” with them, the three girls left with the dude, then picked up Lafromboise, who pulled out a gun and demanded the guy’s wallet and phone. He gave it to them, but bailed out of the car before they could finish the plan, which amounted to driving him into the mountains and leaving him naked.Scumbag, right?Well, obviously you haven’t seen the other side of Mr. Lafromboise–the loving side.Nathan Lafromboise, the last (less-romantic) time he was in jail.You see, his girlfriend (one of those three hold-up skanks) was put in jail on March 13. Lafromboise couldn’t afford to bail her out, but had apparently promised his undying love to her and pledged to do whatever it took to spring her.That’s where an orange Kubota-brand riding lawn mower comes in.Lafromboise had remembered seeing just such a lawn mower after walking through a field near a church. So he and a friend went back one day, cut the lock, then hoisted the thing into the back of a pickup truck and sped off.They tried to sell the mower on Craigslist for $500, exactly what Lafromboise’s girlfriend’s bail was.They got $400 from a couple in Monroe and ponied up the other Benjamin.But before the lucky lady could be reunited with her hero, the new owners of the mower decided to call a lawn mower shop and ask if they had an instruction manual for that particular model. The shop owners remembered the mower that had been stolen from the church and called the cops after the call.Soon Lafromboise was in custody, and the mower was back to trimming the holy grass.Worst of all, before Lafromboise’s girl could be freed, the jail guards noticed she had warrants out of another town, so she was shipped off to a new jail.Now both are behind bars, and unless the remaining hold-up skanks are also heroic romantics, neither is getting out any time soon.Follow The Daily Weekly on Facebook and Twitter.