Farmer hog--ties trespassing teenagers

[sparkythecat]

A farmer in east Lancashire hog-tied two youths that he caught trespassing on his land and delivered them to the local police station on his quad bike.
This is an excellent story that could have come straight from the scriptwriters of Brassic, which is actually filmed in that neck of the woods.
Check out the pictures that accompany the story

https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/24/farmer-ties-trespas...

[EmailAddress]

Can't see this going well for the Farmer.

He's lucky the lads were healthy.

[Bright Halo]

I call BS on the lads story. Look at they way they were dressed, all in black/dark grey. I think they were up to no good.

[Douglas Quaid]

Scrotes up to no good. Good for the farmer. He’ll get prosecuted though, can’t hurt a scrotes feelings/mental health etc.

[BikeBikeBIke]

sparkythecat said:

A farmer in east Lancashire hog-tied two youths that he caught trespassing on his land and delivered them to the local police station on his quad bike.
This is an excellent story that could have come straight from the scriptwriters of Brassic, which is actually filmed in that neck of the woods.
Check out the pictures that accompany the story

https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/24/farmer-ties-trespas...

He can say he was shoplifting the lads and then he'd be let off.

[chemistry]

I’m sure the ‘lads’ were up to no good. Farmer did well to subdue both. His mistake was bringing them in on a quad, which was clearly an unsafe thing to do.

[Louis Balfour]

One of the pair attempting a sad compo face.

[CrgT16]

Electric bike - check
Uniform - check

One is 17 the other is 20 so one is a teenager but not like 12-14 so you could say pretty much 2 male adults, dark clothing…

Were they really just going to leave an electric bike (expensive) overnight on farmland?

They may be silly and just caught out telling the truth but they were probably to no good. The farmer knows it, the police probably knows it too but sadly the system won’t care and might bring charges to the farmer.

[Timothy Bucktu]

Charlie Veitch told the story well. My minds view...fair enough. Real world view...you can't be doing stuff like that!
https://youtu.be/enrmb_BEwho?si=N_geY30oluNjGQb4

[Alex Z]

Yes, it’s quite possible/probably they were up to no good, but there’s no evidence that they have committed an indictable offence that would give the farmer a power of arrest.

How he managed to detain and tie up two young men is a mystery, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d pointed a shotgun at them.

What should the police do when he turns up and tells them he’s committed an offence of false imprisonment? He’s also “used a vehicle in a dangerous condition” transporting them like that.

[.:ian:.]

Should have just fed them to the pigs.

[21TonyK]

Unfortunately...

"The farmer was arrested on suspicion of false imprisonment and assault but has since been released on bail pending further enquiries. "

[bitchstewie]

Yeah you really can't be doing that kind of thing.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

bhstewie said:

Yeah you really can't be doing that kind of thing.

Is that not the problem though. The 'system' did not work so he had to sort it himself.

It's unlikely he did 60mph around bends with them on, it's unsafe but not wildly unsafe, our frame of reference is skewed from the ever-safe Western way.

[HTP99]

The farmer has probably had years of issues with the police doing F all about it and he snapped, all of a sudden the police are interested!!

[turbobloke]

If they hadn't gorn orn his land then he wouldn't have needed to quadbike them orf it. One of the scrotes is said to have used the excuse that a gate was locked when they decided to end their trespass. Sorted! It's all the farmer's fault for securing his property, which the astute local plod have spotted anyway. Lovin' that compo face.

[Mrr T]

GiantEnemyCrab said:

bhstewie said:

Yeah you really can't be doing that kind of thing.

Is that not the problem though. The 'system' did not work so he had to sort it himself.

It's unlikely he did 60mph around bends with them on, it's unsafe but not wildly unsafe, our frame of reference is skewed from the ever-safe Western way.

In what way did the system not work. It seemed they had committed no crime, trespass is generally not a crime. So he imprisoned them and moved them behind a vehicle and was then arrested. Seems to me the system worked.

[andy43]

GiantEnemyCrab said:

bhstewie said:

Yeah you really can't be doing that kind of thing.

Is that not the problem though. The 'system' did not work so he had to sort it himself.

It's unlikely he did 60mph around bends with them on, it's unsafe but not wildly unsafe, our frame of reference is skewed from the ever-safe Western way.

He’ll have done exactly the same with a couple of sheep over fields and hills, so transporting two promising young footballers on smooth tarmac shouldn’t have been a problem. I’m sure he’ll have completed the appropriate farmers union risk assessment beforehand.

[ChocolateFrog]

They got some of what they deserved, they'll be in prison soon enough anyway.

The farmer isn't going to get away with that though.

He should have just just dumped them somewhere remote. They're hardly going to go to the police themselves are they.

[Louis Balfour]

Mrr T said:

GiantEnemyCrab said:

bhstewie said:

Yeah you really can't be doing that kind of thing.

Is that not the problem though. The 'system' did not work so he had to sort it himself.

It's unlikely he did 60mph around bends with them on, it's unsafe but not wildly unsafe, our frame of reference is skewed from the ever-safe Western way.

In what way did the system not work. It seemed they had committed no crime, trespass is generally not a crime. .

They did if they had a vehicle with them, didn't they? Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (CJPOA)