Posted on 01/01/2026 9:06:19 AM PST by Leaning Right
A farmer who used a telehandler to pick up a car and dump it in a road to defend his property has been cleared of dangerous driving and criminal damage.
Robert Hooper, 57, had told Durham Crown Court he felt "frightened and threatened" when he took the action.
He had argued an "Englishman's home is his castle", and he had been assaulted before he used his vehicle to remove the Corsa in County Durham last June.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
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But I just came across it, and decided to post it as a feel-good story to start the new year.
The farmer sounds like a jerk. Car had two flat tires. Instead of offering to help, or just ignoring them, he decided to intentionally damage the car with a front end loader.
Be sure to read the entire story. The farmer asked the car owner to move his car. The car owner responded by punching the farmer twice, and giving him a bloody lip.
All bets are off at that point.
“A farmer who used a telehandler to pick up a car and dump it in a road to defend his property”. Sometimes those farmers can get a little agitated.
Riiight— read the article. They blocked his main entrance for a very long time, walked around finishing off a case of lager. And the punctures happened when they pulled into and on his land overland and thought they could get to a scenic spot. Notice the direction the vehicle was facing-— broke down-— uh huh!.
Stupid drunk yobbos. You must be a cali-texican recent immigrant. This was and is a working farmer— a food producer. Which in Brit law is in the right, private property, and a whole lot else. Judge Singh (sikh) showed this as black book law dating from before the 1600’s.
Pretty sure in Texas— that several firearms would have produced the impetus to get the hell off the farm property and out of the entrance/egress main gate. This response was mild compared to what would justifiably happen in the US, at least in conservative states.
My guess is young, drunk Limey Punk makes himself obnoxious on normal English farmer's property, and finds out normal English farmers can lose patience.
Limey cops and courts screwed up, Drunk Punk should have immediately served 90 days hard labor on farms, end of story.
The bbc and dei, course the word thing is buggered.......
> It’s the BBC, so poor writing… <
As usual. I checked a few other sites that covered this story, but they were all polluted with ads. The best coverage might be from the video in post #2.
From 2022.
He’d probably be arrested and imprisoned by now if this had happened in 2026.
> He’d probably be arrested and imprisoned by now if this had happened in 2026. <
I thought the same thing. Back in 2022 the Tories were in charge. The Tories are bad, but not as bad as Labour is now.
In any case, Happy New Year to you!
I once met a guy who owned property near some sort of local festival. He came home to find two cars illegally parked in his driveway.
He also had a tele-handler. (Big forklift)
He staved one car on the other .
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