Tractor pushes parked cars out of the way

[Algarve]

Truffs said:

These things escalate and once you allow A then B follows. The police should be the ones to sort it out.

How would they sort it though?

Take several hours to turn up, then what? They can't shift all the cars can they. If the tractor can't reverse then the only realistic options are sit and wait on every single owner returning, or push through and try and minimize damage.

I don't think he had any brilliant options open to him at the point of making that decision. I don't have any sympathy at all for the people parking like that.

[Yipper]

Parkers = think they own the countryside.
Farmers = think they own the countryside.

Both as bad as each other.

[TooMany2cvs]

Yipper said:

Parkers = think they own the countryside.
Farmers = think they own the countryside.

One of them's right.

[codenamecueball]

Yipper said:

Parkers = think they own the countryside.
Farmers = think they own the countryside.

Both as bad as each other.

one of them literally does

[Some Gump]

No, they don't.
If that's a public road, it's not the fsarmers land.

Now we have more photos it's clear that the cars are parked incredibly badly - but it doesn't excuse the intentional damaged caused. If this really is for a remembrance service, that's even worse.

[codenamecueball]

Some Gump said:

No, they don't.
If that's a public road, it's not the fsarmers land.

Now we have more photos it's clear that the cars are parked incredibly badly - but it doesn't excuse the intentional damaged caused. If this really is for a remembrance service, that's even worse.

you aren't entitled to park like a prat because there's a remembrance service on down the road.

[sim72]

The Yeti driver is lucky it wasn't a fire engine, or they'd be paying for the damage to the tender as well. If the T5 behind - a wider vehicle - can get itself out of the way, parking carelessly like that is asking for trouble.

[Jim1556]

codenamecueball said:

one of them literally does

But none of them own the road...

As these roads were probably built before cars existed, perhaps it's time they were widened?

[Toaster]

TooMany2cvs said:

Yipper said:

Parkers = think they own the countryside.
Farmers = think they own the countryside.

One of them's right.

The grass verge is probably part of the Farmers property, which these cars are churning up. The smart looking highly polished cars who’s owners probably never have a seconds thought to causing an obstruction. It’s Their selfish action caused the incident. Maybe next time they will consider more carefully where they park.

[Chestrockwell]

Lord Marylebone said:

Wrote a lengthy post, but thought I would keep it short:

Walkers/tourists line a country road with parked cars while they go off for the day into the mountains.

Local farmer is going about his business, comes along with a very large tractor and pulling a large cattle trailer. He comes to the row of parked cars, can't fit though, and can't reverse either because there is nowhere to reverse to, can't turn around, plus he has work to attend to.

Nothing else he can do but push his way through the parked cars.

No note was left, and no one is sure which farmer it was (although the John Deere green paint may narrow it down).

Result: Lots of furious walkers who are now all calling for the farmer to be prosecuted, and demanding to know whose insurance will pay for all this.

Thoughts?

I once witnessed a car reverse into a pole putting a dent in the rear bumper, the noise was pretty loud, I doubt the tractor was carrying livestock as the noise would have terrified them! Probably would have caused extreme panic, those poor cows! Lol Not to mention the impact, imagine dragging a huge trailer through 3 parked cars, tearing off the panel of the door on that Bmw. The noise would have caused those cows to go mad, maybe it would have tipped over or something, I don’t know much about cattle and trailers but he can’t have been carrying live cattle as waiting would have been better for all parties involved!

I for one will be looking forward to alll of the replies on this thread, this is hilarious!

Edit - few typos

Edited by Chestrockwell on Monday 13th November 01:48

[Chestrockwell]

Drive Blind makes an interesting point, if the Skoda driver parked there first, the Bmw maybe shouldn’t have parked there’s and vice versa....the Bmw appears to be more out in the road so..........err the whole thing is just a huge cluster fk, it gives me a headache to think who is right and who is wrong

[surveyor]

Chestrockwell said:

I once witnessed a car reverse into a pole putting a dent in the rear bumper, the noise was pretty loud, I doubt the tractor was carrying livestock as the noise would have terrified them! Probably would have caused extreme panic, those poor cows! Lol Not to mention the impact, imagine dragging a huge trailer through 3 parked cars, tearing off the panel of the door on that Bmw. The noise would have caused those cows to go mad, maybe it would have tipped over or something, I don’t know much about cattle and trailers but he can’t have been carrying live cattle as waiting would have been better for all parties involved!

I for one will be looking forward to alll of the replies on this thread, this is hilarious!

Edit - few typos

Edited by Chestrockwell on Monday 13th November 01:48

Sheep I would imagine....

I'm in two minds here. Really I think calling the Police would have been the right thing to do, although I understand the farmers frustration.

[Ted2]

SmoothCriminal said:

Cars both sides of the road.
Single lane.
Alternative parking close by.

They deserved it.

^ This. As much as I would be absolutely bouncing up and down with rage if he'd done this to my car and want his head on a stick, the facts of the matter are that farmers don't drive their tractors around the countryside for fun; it's their job and how they earn their living. It's easy to sit here typing "he should have phoned the police to sort it" but back in the real world the police couldn't give a flying fk and up there in the Lakes there's probably only 2 patrol cars to cover a 100 sq mile area anyway. Even if they had come out, what exactly could they have done to enable the farmer to carry on with his work? Nothing. They were at the mercy of ALL the walkers coming back to move their vehicles which would have not been until the late afternoon/evening. Are the offending vehicle owners going to financially compensate the farmer for loss of earnings from not being able to get anything done due to being blocked from getting to his farm/fields? No, didn't think so.

He's even provided off-road parking in one of his fields for a token fee to prevent this issue from happening but people scoff at having to pay as they expect everything for free. They thought they were being clever by parking like inconsiderate bell-ends on the verges just to save £3 and now it's come back to bite them on the arse. Would I be raging if it were my car? Hell yeah. But after eventually calming down I would write it off as being a very harsh and costly lesson in life that there can be repercussions for behaving like a selfish bell-end.

[CubanPete]

My sympathy is with the farmer on this one, though sadly I think he will be in trouble for this.

My parents live in a small village with tight parking and are regularly blocked in, and out, of their house by tourists who can't be arsed to walk for five minutes from the public car park (the village is a technically restricted to local access only too). So two oaps with health problems have to walk considerably further. The police aren't interested. There are a lot of selfish aholes out there who park poorly and deserve their comeuppance.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

File under “when bell-ends meet”.

Walkers were taking the piss with that parking but the farmers around here do act like they own the roads.

Rememberance Service, excess numbers, full car parks, it should have been obvious there were going to be issues.

[anonymous-user]

In the Battle of the dheads, everyone is a loser. This one is finely balanced between some who are stubbornly dickish and someone who is dickishly stubborn. Verdict: none have done well and none shall have prizes.

[MB140]

I have a feeling the farmer might be getting a visit from the plod and a couple of claims against his insurance.

Anybody banging on about fire engines etc. What has that got to do with it. It wasn’t a fire tender or ambulance. It was a tractor. Totally different entity and circumstances. Blocking an emergency vehicle and blocking an irate farmer are nowhere near the same.

If it was an emergency vehicle (which it clearly wasn’t) then tough luck. Dive straight through and then send them the bill for damage to the emergency vehicles. Farmer should have waited.

[Vaud]

InitialDave said:

Hmm. Not a fan of vandalising cars, and I'd want the head of anyone who did it to one of mine (though I don't park like a bellend, so unlikely to end up in this scenario)... But on the other hand, I regard walkers as selfish buggers who want the countryside to be some kind of theme park to be enjoyed by them and them alone, so it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they did just dump their cars such that the road was rendered impassable for anyone in a larger vehicle.

The Lake District is kind of “sold” to people as a tourist friendly hikers theme park.

Both sides were wrong in this case.

[CrgT16]

Irrespective of who parked first it is wrong to do what the farmer has done and he should be found, pay all the damage and a big fine!

I can understand why people can say morally he was right to do it but I don’t think so, we don’t live in the Far West, it’s not one eye for an eye!

Sure it would have cost the farmer some time and maybe money the delay but what about when someone looses control of their car in the motorway and you are stuck for hours? Does that person compensates you for kiss of earnings/time?

Farmer to pay, made a poor choice I am afraid!

[SystemParanoia]

MB140 said:

I have a feeling the farmer might be getting a visit from the plod and a couple of claims against his insurance.

Anybody banging on about fire engines etc. What has that got to do with it. It wasn’t a fire tender or ambulance. It was a tractor. Totally different entity and circumstances. Blocking an emergency vehicle and blocking an irate farmer are nowhere near the same.

If it was an emergency vehicle (which it clearly wasn’t) then tough luck. Dive straight through and then send them the bill for damage to the emergency vehicles. Farmer should have waited.

yes, because the selfish parkers knew that there was absolutely no possibility that an emergency vehicle would need to come down the road

Yet they somehow could see into the future and knew that a tractor would need to instead, but still parked like that?