Farmer moves car with a forklift

[jimPH]

Surprised no one has posted this. I guess this is what happens when 2 idiots meet.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=102267...

Also on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/nvBWnlHKdXo

[strudel]

I suspect that farmer may be having a visit paid to him by the local constabulary. I'm not sure that's a reasonable response to the situation.

[Evanivitch]

jimPH said:

Surprised no one has posted this. I guess this is what happens when 2 idiots meet.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=102267...

Also on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/nvBWnlHKdXo

I've seen reported on other forums that some farm insurance covers the removal of a vehicle blocking access using a forklift.

Not sure how legit dumping it on the highway would be...

[Jimmy No Hands]

Evanivitch said:

I've seen reported on other forums that some farm insurance covers the removal of a vehicle blocking access using a forklift.

Not sure how legit dumping it on the highway would be...

Not sure complete decimation = removal.

Police may also be fairly interested in the near impalement of topless uncouth driver.

[Silent1]

Evanivitch said:

I've seen reported on other forums that some farm insurance covers the removal of a vehicle blocking access using a forklift.

Not sure how legit dumping it on the highway would be...

No it absolutely doesn’t, they view it as negligence, there’s such a thing as a tow truck company, you might have an argument for livestock in distress but only if you take appropriate care

[pquinn]

That could end up with a bit more than a slap on the wrist.

[Gecko1978]

Why would you park there and block access reading comments seems that young folk go there to drink and party so leave cars there.

[pquinn]

Thing is the stupid mug has to get out of the cab eventually - does part two show him getting beaten to death by the angry person he just tried to kill?

[Durzel]

Although the farmer was completely in the wrong, I find it hard not to chuckle at the bloke giving it the big "come on then" just before his car gets pushed around, and then compounding it by kicking it? The driver looks like exactly the sort of person who I imagine does not give a crap about the farmer being able to do his job.

That all said, the farmer is going to get in trouble, particularly as he nearly took out the guy with it.

[don'tbesilly]

Evanivitch said:

jimPH said:

Surprised no one has posted this. I guess this is what happens when 2 idiots meet.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=102267...

Also on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/nvBWnlHKdXo

I've seen reported on other forums that some farm insurance covers the removal of a vehicle blocking access using a forklift.

Not sure how legit dumping it on the highway would be...

I'd be gobsmacked if any insurance company would cover that rather extreme example of a vehicle being removed by a forklift because the vehicle was blocking access!

I'd guess the driver of the forklift isn't going to come out of this very well regardless of the circumstances that led to the destruction of the car and the deliberate swipe with the forks of the forklift on the Guy who was possibly the owner of the car.

[NGRhodes]

Notice the cows in the field, I wonder how the law considers farmer unable to tend/look after a field full of animals on a hot day vs damage of a car ?

[ClaphamGT3]

When stupid people collide....

[ClaphamGT3]

NGRhodes said:

Notice the cows in the field, I wonder how the law considers farmer unable to tend/look after a field full of animals on a hot day vs damage of a car ?

"I was concerned for the welfare of my livestock so took decisive action to remove a perceived threat to them from their vicinity" is one thing, "As the red mist descended, I created a hazard on a public highway and bloody nearly impaled a chav on the fork of my hi-lift" is another and likely to get rather less sympathetic treatment from the boys in blue.

I'd suggest that farmer Giles is in quite a bit of trouble

[rscott]

Farmer near me had a less destructive approach to someone who used to regularly park several yards into his field to take dogs for a walk across private land (no footpath, either).

He started by leaving notes on that car that it was illegally parked and that they were trespassing - didn't work. So he just irrigated that entire field, with an 'accidental' leak in that gateway, to the point it turned to foot deep mud.. Driver got his car out, but ripped the rear bumper off along the way.

Same farmer had problems with hare coursers on his land. They were disturbed by the police and fled, leaving a Legacy estate (no current keeper registered, of course) abandoned in a field. He ploughed round it, making it impossible to move. Was still there 3 months later, at which point it somehow got torched and disposed of.

[mrporsche]

I agree with the farmer.

I had a lowered curb on a previous property and somebody parked in front of it blocking me in, just begs the question why ???

That said i am not man enough to actually do it.

[snotrag]

Farmer has my every sympathy.

As I am 100% sure that it was not a one off, and he is no doubt sick to death of people parking there, and the person in this video was the final straw.

And when farmer turned up with said forklift, they could have given it ;ok, sorry, understood' and driven off. But no, they got their phones out, began antagonising the farmer (no doubt excited by how many likes they were going to get on facebook and snapchat) and kept up the aggression.

The farmer took it too far, and will pay a price for that. However I completely understand why. In just that short video I can already ascertain that the driver(s) are cretins.

[valiant]

This has shades of that other farmer who got fed up with people parking their cars on a road, narrowing access for farm vehicles to get through. Pissed off farmer then literally ploughs through, taking out the sides of many a car.

Wonder what the result of that was?

[Randy Winkman]

mrporsche said:

I agree with the farmer.

I had a lowered curb on a previous property and somebody parked in front of it blocking me in, just begs the question why ???

That said i am not man enough to actually do it.

I have sympathy with the farmer but who do you think should pay for the damage to the car?

[InitialDave]

What the OP posted isn't really acceptable.

It's clearly a telehandler, not a forklift.

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I'd say he was a tad unhinged myself. Fair play though...at least nobody will park there any more!