What was the source of the lead? Avgas leak? Battery? Or did they eat your fabric - apparently a favoured food for cattle. Unlikely to contain lead, but might poison or otherwise affect intestine.

Crikey! Did you give them both barrels on the way down?
Sounds like you, or your insurance company, is being asked to pay a second farm subsidy.

That farmer seems to run a serious risk of prosecution for insurance fraud, indeed.

@PB84: my sympathy!

PB,

Sorry to hear about your accident. I'm glad you are both OK.

AG,

Best line I've read for a long time! :ok:

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Yer farmer must be on drugs!

Maybe £6,500 for all seven that have died so far.

Brilliant. Farmers are as trustworthy as your average Westminster politician...

Maxred, funny you say that, I've noticed a new breed of farmer in these parts recently , usually mid twenties early thirties who have had a several million pound farming asset handed over to them from family, they actually believe they are clever and have somehow earned it and act like everybody else is a stupid bastard, there arrogance, lack of business acumen normally ends in them hitting the skids with the banks and resorting to insurance and other scams. I could read this guy like a book. He's now seriously back peddling and miracle of miracles he's now saying he has separated the healthy ones from the "others" (he means the dead ones I presume) the insurance have told him they have appointed a vet who needs to meet his vet to review the blood/tox results from the "dead" cows he's stalling on turning over his vets contact info or allowing a site visit. Says he's busy shearing sheep !!!

Edited to add: I haven't mentioned to him yet the fuel in the tanks was Shell's finest unleaded and the battery which is still in good working order with no cracks is a gelcel. Let him keep digging for a while.

Report him to local PLOD for fraud. After the vet report decrees they drank contaminated hill water, then you can have him........

No matter what happens, I doubt that the Police or the Fiscal's Office will give a ****. Even if they do, a prosecution, even successful, will be of little impact.

However, telling his insurers that he tried to ram it up your insurers, well, now, then, now then, now then, as Lord Melchett would say.

He might be in a bigger pile of **** than he has on his farm.

You can't take away his liberty, because you can't put him in the jail. But you can make his eyes water by doing to him, exactly what the has tried to do to you. You, and his insurers will be able to make him pay, literally, for trying it on.

They, of course will not punish him on your behalf, but for themselves. He was trying to have them over and make them try to recover that from you, and in turn from the rest of us, who may or may not be likely to end up in a field.

I'm actually just as keen to hear how this plays out as I am to follow The Ancient Geek's line of enquiry.

I've been advised by the farmer that he and his vet (imaginary I suspect) have had a rethink and have decided it wasn't lead poisoning that killed his cattle, and have now diagnosed it as either a lightening strike or stress.As there hasn't been any lightening of late and I doubt the cattle suffered apparently fatal physiological levels of stress witnessing my crash the farmer has conceded I am not liable for his alleged fatalities. He has however said he has had to move the cattle from the field into another that will now prevent him from harvesting silage from it so he wants compensated for 22 acres of silage.

Some peoples kids huh !!

Edit to add: when I told the insurance adjuster the new diagnoses he pissed himself laughing.

Put the Farmer's details on here and we can all write to him and tell him; to do one!

Ever slow down to have a look at the crash on the opposite side of the highway when you know you really shouldn't ? Well here ya go you rubber necking bar stewards !


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Thats an eeek short field between the fence and the embankment.

That ain't an embankment, it's a dung midden, a nice big soft pile of **** thank god. Had to keep the car windows open on the ride home.

Thats going to be an exciting story:cool:

Last one I saw positioned like that, and witnessed the event in glorious technicolour, was the AA5 at Bute..

Friggin press finally caught on

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp...th-east-field/

Replacement getting loaded in the container after the yanks get done celebrating the day we gave away the colonies.

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Nice to have a spare "lying around" at this difficult time.

But seriously - we are all interested as to what happened....weather, engine failure?

Sincerely hope its not an anal one !

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/...r-plane-crash/

Well of course they would launch a probe. Someone at the CAA thinks the M-5 Strata Rocket is a spacecraft! ;)