Man arrested over property damage after tractor driven through flooded UK town

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1. A farmer recklessly causing damage to public areas? I never.

2. Good. What a dick. As if those people weren’t already having a bad enough day.

3. Was the damage water? Was place already flooded? How would a court establish loss? My wet stuff got wet, ya honour!

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5. Shops literally half way up the walls in water and he’s a dick cos he created a wave in his tractor. Never mind the fact he was probably on his way to save a life or retrieve a vehicle.

   Honestly the place was flood damaged to start with what else was going to happen.

6. If it was a genuine emergency, then fair enough. I’m sure it will come out in due course what his reasons were. 

   And by genuine emergency, I mean life threatening or at least more important than ruining other people’s livelihoods. 

   No emergency and just being a knob? Fine and a 12 month ban I reckon would serve him right. 

7. Not surprised by this in the slightest, farmers make pigs smoke!

   I bet that farmer is a big posh sod with plums in his mouth… and the plums have mutated and they’ve got beaks.

   MmmmmmmoooooooOOOOO!

8. was all the tractors fault, nothing to do with the half meter deep water down the high street.

9. While we are pissing off farmers, can we please make a law that they can’t trundle around at 20 MPH spreading shit all over the road and clogging up lanes between 7.30-9AM and 4.30-6PM on weekdays.

   Those of us who don’t have generational wealth, government subsidies and special tax breaks, actually have to go to work somewhere we don’t live. To do that we need to traverse the nations roads as efficiently as possible.

10. Nob thing to do in the circumstances, but what actual extra damage did he cause? Highstreet is fucked it’s miles underwater… The wave he made is hardly making things worse than it already is.

11. But remember, these poor farmers are salt of the earth types just wanting to feed the nation. How dare you take their beneficial tax arrangements, they would never do anything selfishly they are the picture of benevolence.

12. To all the people defending this guy.

    Taking a vehicle through water, be it a tractor or a boat, generates a bow wave. However, the size and strength of that bow wave is dependent on the _speed_ of the vehicle. That’s why boats have speed restrictions in places where strong bow waves are undesirable.

    If this tractor driver had been going at a slower, more sensible speed then he would have generated a lesser bow wave, that wouldn’t have reached as high or done as much damage. Instead he seemed to be there just for the fun of it, and he did damage in the process, which is why people are pissed off.

    As for the defence of “maybe he was helping save people”… with _what_? All the times I’ve seen farmers using their tractors to support the emergency services with getting people out of flooded areas, they’ve been towing a trailer for that purpose.

13. I just figured he didn’t realize. Idk stupidity before malice and all.

14. Is this a bold new plan to get below the inheritance tax threshold by paying the difference in fines?

15. This whole thread is a mess. This guy was obviously an asshole, but to label all farmers the same is utterly ridiculous. Some on here are acting like they’ve never eaten anything produced on a British farm. Around here farmers have been delivering sand bags that no one else would have a chance of doing.

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