in this case though the farmer’s animals had caused a lot of hassle; two horse-riders had fallen off due to the pigs scaring their horses – and the pigs invading the other guys farm mean it has to be decontaminated because of the foot and mouth rules (brought in because another old pig farmer didn’t look after his stock properly).

A weeks lost business to a farm is serious disruption. Even raves don’t cause anything near that level of disruption to the rural economy! If the man cannot sell his cow someone else will take the sale; the bloke who is on stoppage is losing hundreds of pounds each time.

The reason the norfolk man is being rinsed is because he has himself caused another small farmer and other locals a lot of hardship. he was given an opportunity to fix the fence but didn’t do so and passed the problem on to his neighbours 😡 leaving them to fortify their land..

It would be equivalent to one crew setting up a party and another rival crew getting rudeboys to rush the door, push the stack and decks over and lob a CS into the dancefloor.. (hell even UK garbage lot aren’t as bad as this!)

why are his pigs escaping all the time anyway? There’s a pig farm a few miles away from me and all the porkers stay put there and don’t trash the neighbourhood – – given these animals behaviour (it looks like they are foraging for extra food!) it seems they are not being fed or looked after properly 🙁

A lot of middle englanders want to apply the laws selectively – they don’t want our parties; OTOH they want to do stuff like fox-hunting and don’t want to comply with environmental protection regulations. At least this shows that they also cannot cherry-pick what laws they choose to obey and is bringing the fight back to them!

Originally posted by USE
was he really amiddle englander? in my experience, pig farming is not a particularly economically beneficial enterprise, more a labour of love…i dont know about this man…

if its a labour of love, why are his beasts escaping like that? pigs aren’t stupid, and tunnelling takes a lot of effort that they would not go to unless it were worthwhile. these animals are clearly looking for extra food and space – or are unhappy with their conditions.

TBH I don’t think the penalty was harsh enough – the RSPCA should have become involved, his herd confiscated and sold to another organic farm who can look after them better (such as the one up the road from me).

There are old people’s homes for guys like him – the sale of the pigs could pay for some of his care.

They could though give him a big allotment (or put him in charge of such a project for other green-fingered OAPS) and let him keep the geese to look after!(they did not cause as much hassle will stop the home from being burgled as well)

sorry but I cannot feel an ounce of sympathy for these people – its not as if he’s being put through anything worse than any of us have been through with the criminal justice system.

From the way he has acted he is just the sort of grumpy old bastard (who had obviously pissed off his entire village for things to get that far) Payback time!

as for the prisoners, whilst I appreciate some people who are some “mentally ill” end up in HMP who should not be there, I also have relatives who work in NHS and have been physically threatened by these types.

I’ve read those grauniad articles too and still have no sympathy for them – speak to some frontline NHS staff and you may get some different stories. Many of these people are in HMP because they have committed violent acts whilst on drugs; usually robbery, domestic violence or attacks on NHS staff; in many cases the people who have tried to help them out.

Some of the “vulnerable young people” are the same types who turned you and the others over in St Pauls and are making Brizzle a no-go area..

I do not give a flying fuck what harsh stuff happened to them in a previous life; nothing gives them the right to take that violence to other innocents and TBH if they string themselves up there’s not a lot we can do about it. we cannot make excuses for and save everybody…

I’ve actually spent a fair bit of time in the countryside as well as cities and TBH there are a lot of cliques there all as bad as each other (apart from of course the younger people, raving crews and the small number of hippies/organic farmers who have actually brought decent farming projects to fruition).

The rest are always moaning and complaining at each other and everyone else and stiching each other up in business way worse than in the cities; have a look at the crime news in some rural areas and you will see all sorts of incidents of farmers thieving from one another…. loads of livestock theft, tack, tractors etc going missing…. but not as if city boys like me are going to buy a prize heifer? LOL I don’t even like milk all that much 😀

they can’t blame the government all of the time when they don’t want to set up a postive-minded community where people help each other out. the same goes for ravers..