Bad place to park....

[suffolksmallholder]

From Suffolk and those within my local area who farm. IMO
They'd be mortified if an employee did this to anyone, irrespective.

OK 'contractors' hire a number of folk to work in their busy times and perhaps these 'professionals' may not vet their employees as well as a school would with DBS checks and all but moral responsibility should be high on the list?
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[glasshouse]

So people who don't agree with your view are dickheads.?
Funny that only negative posts I seen where ever I seen it posted are from farmers.
Public all agree with what was done and think it's great.
Guess shows why most farmers so out of touch with the public, no idea how they think.
Explains why nfu is so useless as well...

The publc have no conception of the revenge game.
They dont have straw stacks to burn, gates to leave open , livestock to abuse etcetc

 

[suffolksmallholder]

The publc have no conception of the revenge game.
They dont have straw stacks to burn, gates to leave open , livestock to abuse etcetc

And I've been woken up with revenge burning in the past and it's not pleasant at all! Six engine units and two big straw stacks burning. I visited the scene rather bleary eyed and they thought I was the culprit! Had to rapidly explain my reason for being there.....
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[glasshouse]

I expect the negative posts to be from those involved with agriculture, rather than joe public. The public will just see this scenario as funny, no different to it being shown on a well know video clip programme on tv. To them, it’s a nice posh car on someone else’s ground, and deserves it. Ok, it was parked illegally, but on grass ! Not like it had trampled an acre of wheat or other crop, and if that area taken up by the car didn’t get a dose of slurry, did it really matter ?
Those of us who have spread slurry will know you get used to the smell, but it takes some shifting totally, and that car could probably be ruined, for what really ? I bet if the driver hadn’t had an audience or a video phone, he wouldn’t have even bothered.
A well scripted note under the wiper, or locking the gate would have been more my style, as i like to keep those members of the public that know me on my side. Was the car intentionally parked there ? Or, as once happened to me, was pushed there out of the way of traffic when the engine died. Maybe the farmer had had several altercations with this driver, then fair enough.
I know one thing from past experience, don’t be the one to fire the first shot, especially if you don’t know who you’re dealing with.
Maybe next years video will be the same guy returning to the field to collect his telehandler after loading the bales......to find all the glass put through !!!

You never know what some dickheads may do !

Exactly right

 

[glasshouse]

So you let everyone walk all over you just because you are afraid of possible reprisals?

What a sad way to live your life.

Guessing you dont live on urban fringe
Get real

 

[roscoe erf]

fw poll results

Poll - Was farmer right to spray slurry on parked car?
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[roscoe erf]

fw poll results

Poll - Was farmer right to spray slurry on parked car?
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1703 Votes in 10 hours
Created 26th May 2020 - 9:21 PM
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Results Breakdown - Part 2 / 6

Yes	1563	92%
No	https://www.poll-maker.com/results2947845xA75D43Ae-87#s2 140	8%

the 140 are all tff members

 

[Fendt516profi]

Is there a Golf under there?

No tractor isn't man enough to lift it onto car

 

[betweenthelines]

An ambassador to the 'great' British Farmer, not. Get 'orf moi laand!
So sorry chap, the majority of the British public pay for your lifestyle in the dreaded subsidy by way of their tax and irrespective of how the vehicle came to be in this spot is really is not the right or proper thing to do. Ever. Simples.
Agricultural road rage. No place for it in any way, shape or form.

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The fact that a business receives a subsidy is irrelevant.

Even before Covid, airlines, power companies, steel manufacturers, rail and bus companies all received public money. But that didn't give anyone the right to park free at an airport or in a bus station or on a level crossing!

As an aside, why do farmers seem to be ashamed they they get subsidies? It's a political decision to pay a subsidy to keep prices down in shops, it's just a different way of paying for food production.

Are health workers ashamed to work for the NHS, police not paid per crime solved etc. etc.

 

[Fendt516profi]

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Not been to end of drive today but apparently another car parked in a similar position to the red car and absolutely nothing to the left. Do I need to pop off to local dairy farm to borrow a load of slurry

 

[fieldfarmer]

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As an aside, why do farmers seem to be ashamed they they get subsidies? It's a political decision to pay a subsidy to keep prices down in shops, it's just a different way of paying for food production.

Are health workers ashamed to work for the NHS, police not paid per crime solved etc. etc.

I don't think farmers are ashamed they get a subsidy, I for one think the tax payer (which includes me) gets good value for money, but some who for what ever reason get very little or no sub like to bash us.

 

[puppet]

Maybe the survey should have said
'If you parked your car in a field not blocking the access would you deserve to have it covered with slurry?'

I think half of those 1563 yes voters would be phoning the police.
Glasshouse is right that revenge from the urban fringe is not something to be taken lightly.
It does not have to be damage like paint stripper on vehicles, open gates, flat tyres, nails in gateways or arson. It is the soft but clever stuff like reporting to police, HSE, HMRC, RSPCA which wears you down and he is asking for it.
I knew a contractor who you would not have messed with frustrated by persistent minor damage by some yobs but he had no proof so could not do anything to them.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Sorry folks, but this is unarguably criminal damage and whether or not his feelings are understandable, his actions are out of order and could very well land him in trouble.

I doubt it. Unless you mean the car driver and trespass? Well he might be.


As I've said elsewhere there are more important things for everyone to worry about. Not least the people taking to the water ill prepared and lacking /knowledge wisdomand with unpredictable sea conditions, 3 have died in the last few days.

Park on someone else's property is trespass.

People are driving for miles to get down here and its having bad repercussions.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Sorry folks, but this is unarguably criminal damage and whether or not his feelings are understandable, his actions are out of order and could very well land him in trouble.

When we were having a fair bit of trouble with poachers a couple of years ago and meatings with police and local gamekeepers the subject came up of vehicles on private land and how they could be removed or damaged “accidentally” and the police said well they shouldn’t be there so no charges would come if the vehicle was damaged or removed forcefully

 

[SimonThePieman]

When we were having a fair bit of trouble with poachers a couple of years ago and meatings with police and local gamekeepers the subject came up of vehicles on private land and how they could be removed or damaged “accidentally” and the police said well they shouldn’t be there so no charges would come if the vehicle was damaged or removed forcefully

Unfortunately that's rubbish. You may have a defence if you're able to say you damaged a vehicle accidentally whilst trying to remove it, but that doesn't mean you're off the hook. Also note that poaching and aggravated trespass are criminal acts, whereas trespass is not. Anybody has the right to take appropriate action to prevent crime, but that wouldn't apply in the video.

Believe me, if the owner of that car were to report this, the tractor driver would be lucky to avoid a criminal damage charge.

 

[BBC]

Lock the gate as he goes out and charge a fairly hefty release fee to be donated to the NHS or RNLI.

 

[cvx175]

Having got thoroughly fed up over the last few weeks with free range walkers and where they deem it suitable to leave their cars I fully sympathise. However, probably going a bit far and probably applying a thick layer around it and then locking gates would be a better course of action ...

I have had a recurring problem with walkers deciding its acceptable to drive down private road and park where they feel. Some have apologised when caught, which is fine, others have got more belligerent, with one particular person trying to claim that the council had informed her it was not a private road and because it was convenient she could park where she liked. Initially put some quite large stones in her favourite parking spot, but those disappeared overnight. In fairness to local policeman, he has been very good and said no problem, because at that stage no-one should be driving to take their daily exercise, so just let him know the numberplate of any offending cars and they will be rewarded with a Covid-19 restriction fine. Problem solved

Would applying a thick layer around the car achieve anything as the slurry he's spreading didn't look overly thick, and with the dry weather and how dry the ground is in a couple of hours it would be dried out to the point of having no effect

 

[ollie989898]

When we were having a fair bit of trouble with poachers a couple of years ago and meatings with police and local gamekeepers the subject came up of vehicles on private land and how they could be removed or damaged “accidentally” and the police said well they shouldn’t be there so no charges would come if the vehicle was damaged or removed forcefully

I would be extremely hesitant to do anything to poachers cars.

You have more to lose, particularly if you have a firearms cert.

 

[Netherfield]

Four bales of strategically placed silage would do a good job though.

 

[glasshouse]

When we were having a fair bit of trouble with poachers a couple of years ago and meatings with police and local gamekeepers the subject came up of vehicles on private land and how they could be removed or damaged “accidentally” and the police said well they shouldn’t be there so no charges would come if the vehicle was damaged or removed forcefully

Yes, damage a poachers car and you will have your Buildings torched in no time