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<blockquote data-quote="Lowland1" data-source="post: 8148159" data-attributes="member: 66524"><p>You lot really don't know what theft is. No one here black or white can leave cattle out grazing at night because they'll be stolen often they'll be stolen from the stockyards at night so you have to have a guard. Whilst your cattle are tucked away at night then other people will be out grazing your grass I actually know someone who got shot and killed objecting to this and we've had dogs speared chasing cattle away. You've got to have a herdsman with your livestock to stop them being stolen when grazing but we''ve had a herdsman give cows away to his mate. We had a goatherd who when one gave birth would slaughter and eat another so that the numbers were always the same at the end of the day. So we gave up livestock as it was too stressful and went fully cropping but we can't grow maize because it gets stolen often by the people paid to guard it. This year we chopped about fifteen acres a month from harvest because if we had left it there would have been nothing left our security said it was warthogs obviously highly evolved warthogs who could pick it and carry it off in sacks. In some areas people will wait until your wheat is ready then come in with a donkey and cart and cut it before you can. A friend tipped his car over driving through a straw pile that was left by the combine only it wasn't just straw it was a tonne of corn covered by straw, his combine driver got over the hill out of sight opened the auger dumped a bit covered it with straw to be collected later. We hired a tipper truck that we had to fill with diesel. After a couple of days we worked out that its fuel consumption was about two gallons a mile because as soon as he left our yard he was into the village with a can and hosepipe. My landlords manager caught a tractor driver stealing diesel on making his escape the driver ran him over, a Fiat 180/90 is a heavy tractor we found out. Obviously this is trivial compared to the Dutch company that I sold broccoli to that went bankrupt owing us £80,000.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lowland1, post: 8148159, member: 66524"] You lot really don't know what theft is. No one here black or white can leave cattle out grazing at night because they'll be stolen often they'll be stolen from the stockyards at night so you have to have a guard. Whilst your cattle are tucked away at night then other people will be out grazing your grass I actually know someone who got shot and killed objecting to this and we've had dogs speared chasing cattle away. You've got to have a herdsman with your livestock to stop them being stolen when grazing but we''ve had a herdsman give cows away to his mate. We had a goatherd who when one gave birth would slaughter and eat another so that the numbers were always the same at the end of the day. So we gave up livestock as it was too stressful and went fully cropping but we can't grow maize because it gets stolen often by the people paid to guard it. This year we chopped about fifteen acres a month from harvest because if we had left it there would have been nothing left our security said it was warthogs obviously highly evolved warthogs who could pick it and carry it off in sacks. In some areas people will wait until your wheat is ready then come in with a donkey and cart and cut it before you can. A friend tipped his car over driving through a straw pile that was left by the combine only it wasn't just straw it was a tonne of corn covered by straw, his combine driver got over the hill out of sight opened the auger dumped a bit covered it with straw to be collected later. We hired a tipper truck that we had to fill with diesel. After a couple of days we worked out that its fuel consumption was about two gallons a mile because as soon as he left our yard he was into the village with a can and hosepipe. My landlords manager caught a tractor driver stealing diesel on making his escape the driver ran him over, a Fiat 180/90 is a heavy tractor we found out. Obviously this is trivial compared to the Dutch company that I sold broccoli to that went bankrupt owing us £80,000. [/QUOTE]
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