Aussie dad juggles his runaway lawnmower and 18-month-old in viral clip

The moment an Aussie dad is forced to juggle his runaway lawnmower with his 18-month-old son has left the internet in stitches.

The notion that men struggle to concentrate on more than one thing at the same time is both commonly-accepted and scientifically proven.

But one dad in Western Australia has quite literally given the ideology that his gender can’t multitask a run for its money in hilarious – and slightly nerve-racking – CCTV footage.

Arron Nash shared a clip of the incident, which took place on what’s presumably his front lawn, to Facebook on Thursday night.

In the video, Mr Nash can be seen doing the push mowing, with his 18-month-old son nearby in a ride-on toy car.

West Australian dad Arron Nash was simply mowing the lawn … Picture: Facebook

… when his 18-month-old son started to roll down the driveway in his ride-on toy car. Picture: Facebook

Things take a turn for the dramatic, though, when his little boy begins to roll down the driveway in the car, toward the road.

Mr Nash races across the lawn, abandoning the mower to secure his son – only for the piece of machinery to begin moving towards them of its own accord.

Leaving his child in his toy car on the driveway, Mr Nash runs back across the grass to catch the mower.

Mr Nash abandoned the mower to stop his little boy … Picture: Facebook

… only for the mower to take on a life of its own once his son was secured … Picture: Facebook

What really pushes the clip into Australia’s Funniest Home Videos territory, however, is that the toy car begins to roll away again, forcing the man to dart back across the lawn with hand on the mower, and the other on his kid.

“Dad mode activated,” he captioned the video, which has been viewed 38,000 times in less than 24 hours.

“Hayden rolls off at 18 months old.”

… leaving Mr Nash to get a firm grasp on them both. Picture: Facebook

Needless to say, the reaction to Mr Nash’s grasp of the situation was one of awe.

“Mate!! That’s classic,” one person commented, while another congratulated him on his “good catch”.

“OMG your (sic) killing my back laughing at this Arron,” someone else wrote.

“OMG same here,” a different person agreed. “But then I didn’t know if the pain was from laughing or having a heart attack. I bet that scared the life out of Arron.”

“This is absolute gold,” one commented.

“Good priorities though both got about the same level of reaction of urgency.”

Originally published as Aussie dad juggles his runaway lawnmower and 18-month-old in viral clip