Random things you find in a field!

Yale

Member
Livestock Farmer
TGathering sheep today and come across this.
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Prepared for a fight,knife left on seat.
 
You're right there....one day when I was out checking sheep I found an aluminium baseball bat in the middle of the field it was all caved in...I heard the next day a local pub had been held up using baseball bats, wether the two were related I don't know but made me think
When do littler picking on sites method statements say not to pick up drug needles
 

Danllan

Member
Location
Sir Gar / Carms
When I was a teenager on the old place I as walking the fields one morning to close a gate that had been left open after harvest. I got to a few yards from the gate and noticed that there was a lot of blood and a shirt soaked in it just inside the field. I ran back and we called the police who were out like a shot. Within an hour there were SOC and soon after a helicopter was overhead searching the other fields and woods with a thermal imager. Later there was the obligatory 'white tent' and the police were there overnight.

The next morning, the village Bobby came over and said it was all sorted - the evening before I found the blood a horse had been hit by car and the rider had just managed to get the poor beast into the gateway before it collapsed, badley damaged leg. A vet had been called out and it had been shot, the shirt has been the rider's and was over the head because she couldn't bear to see the eyes. That done the knackers had picked it up within an hour or two.

Nobody told us - or the police - anything about all this. Apart from the unpleasantness, it must have cost thousands of public money for all the man-hours and the helicopter. The Bobby gave the owner and the vet a serious b*llocking...
 

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