The Farmer and Bad parking

[Saleen836]

I couldn't find the original thread on this but the farmer has been reported for the offences of criminal damage and dangerous driving.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9844667/P...

[APontus]

Good. There are ways to deal with aholes who abuse your land, but that isn't it.

[Alucidnation]

Well done to the farmer.

I suspect, if the owner of the car wasn't getting in the way, he would have got away with it.


Fair play to him, and i doubt he gives a fk about the charges.

Most satisfying i suspect.

[Vanden Saab]

Alucidnation said:

Well done to the farmer.

I suspect, if the owner of the car wasn't getting in the way, he would have got away with it.


Fair play to him, and i doubt he gives a fk about the charges.

Most satisfying i suspect.

Please stop this is the second time I am having to agree with you..

[APontus]

Alucidnation said:

Well done to the farmer.

I suspect, if the owner of the car wasn't getting in the way, he would have got away with it.


Fair play to him, and i doubt he gives a fk about the charges.

Most satisfying i suspect.

I suspect the real threat of a stint in Durham prison and others is playing on his mind more than you might think.

[biggbn]

What did he think would happen? It's hardly caped crusader crime fighting is it? Sorry, for me, farmer clearly provoked by idiot then acts like idiot.

[Triumph Man]

Someone has to stand up to these oiks who think they can get away with anything without consequence. Maybe the farmer was a little extreme, but those oiks don't really speak the language of ordinary people...

[JagLover]

This is what Jury trials are for. So, regardless of the legal niceties, justice can be done.

Hope the farmer doesn't get convicted.

[spikyone]

Barnard Castle? Plot twist; the farmer was Dominic Cummings and this time there really was an issue with his eyesight...

[anonymous-user]

I think the bit that forced the issue would have been punting the car out onto the public highway.

[Pit Pony]

JagLover said:

This is what Jury trials are for. So, regardless of the legal niceties, justice can be done.

Hope the farmer doesn't get convicted.

I hope he does.

[APontus]

JagLover said:

This is what Jury trials are for. So, regardless of the legal niceties, justice can be done.

Hope the farmer doesn't get convicted.

Jury trials don't return perverse verdicts that often. If the evidence is strong he has a strong chance of being convicted. I'd bet he's going to plead guilty at the earliest opportunity to give maximum sentence reduction and prey for something suspended.

[Alucidnation]

Yeah but I bet the little tt wont park inconsiderately again though.

[APontus]

Hopefully he's learned his lesson.

In the Lakes last month and some of the parking was breathtakingly bad. A while row of cars blocking one lane of the A591 between Ambleside and Windermere. People just don't realise it's the main arterial route through the Lake District. Thankfully the local Bobby turned up and was ticketing the lot of them.

I have no time for selfish parking any more than vigilantism (especially using a telehandler to drive at someone and smash their car in).

[Dominic Saaaaab]

Pit Pony said:

JagLover said:

This is what Jury trials are for. So, regardless of the legal niceties, justice can be done.

Hope the farmer doesn't get convicted.

I hope he does.

I'm sure we all feel some sympathy for the fellow, but his retaliation was so grossly disproportionate he must be expecting to be found guilty.
His response was far from justice.

[Byker28i]

Newarch said:

I think the bit that forced the issue would have been punting the car out onto the public highway.

More likely the swinging the forks at the pissed off driver after he tried attacking the cab... he came very close

[Pit Pony]

Dominic Saaaaab said:

Pit Pony said:

JagLover said:

This is what Jury trials are for. So, regardless of the legal niceties, justice can be done.

Hope the farmer doesn't get convicted.

I hope he does.

I'm sure we all feel some sympathy for the fellow, but his retaliation was so grossly disproportionate he must be expecting to be found guilty.
His response was far from justice.

Having had a shot gun pointed in my face by a red faced farmer, because I stupidly got my bearing incorrect and the public footpath I thought I was on, turned out not to be. (Despite OS map and compass) , I feel that over reaction might be part a thing. Apparently I was bringing death and abortion onto his land. Best shoot me for being lost then.
In the case of our "hero" obviously you don't get wound up like that without reason, but he's no better than the bloke that gets involved in road rage and stabs someone that's cut him up.

[av185]

Alucidnation said:

Yeah but I bet the little tt wont park inconsiderately again though.

Haha possibly but I wouldn't bank on the little Chav scrote learning an expensive lesson with his obvious sense of extreme entitlement thinking it was ok parking there. He'll be at it again as soon as he rents something else no doubt.

[TTmonkey]

Having served on a jury on a very similar case, there’s no way he isn’t convicted, and will probably serve time.

The whole ‘he was driven to it’ kind of feeling goes out the window during jury deliberation. He will get no sympathy.

He’s lucky he’s not facing a man slaughter charge or even worst.

[anonymous-user]

Pit Pony said:

Having had a shot gun pointed in my face by a red faced farmer, because I stupidly got my bearing incorrect and the public footpath I thought I was on, turned out not to be. (Despite OS map and compass) , I feel that over reaction might be part a thing. Apparently I was bringing death and abortion onto his land. Best shoot me for being lost then.
In the case of our "hero" obviously you don't get wound up like that without reason, but he's no better than the bloke that gets involved in road rage and stabs someone that's cut him up.

I have also been threatened by a shotgun toting land owner, despite the fact that I was legally on his land, working within a fenced off easement for a new water main, wearing a high viz jacket and not in any respect acting suspiciously.

I often get people parking across the access to my driveway, it is a popular pull in for people heading along the Welsh Borders. I only usually ask them to move if they are actually in my way, i.e. if I am actually going out, and always politely. I have never had anything other than a polite and contrite response.

People parking badly is a real issue, not just in the countryside, I used to live near Bristol Rovers football ground, and you'd get the whole street including junctions covered in parked cars on match days.

I'll be interested to see how this pans out, farmers and landowners can be high handed and unnecessarily aggressive and territorial, but people parking inconsiderately can be aholes too.