Sorry for the perjorative thread title, but living in a rural area like farmer Robert Hooper, I am all too used to the sense of entitlement often shown by drivers who seem to think road traffic laws and basic good behaviour are optional once they’re outside of the town. This includes inconsiderate and downright selfish people parking their cars so as to prevent the rest of us even getting ours off our driveways, or blocking single track roads and causing mayhem when mountain rescue can’t then get by (it happens around here more often than you might think).
Hooper’s decision to use a talehandler to forcibly remove this manchild’s Corsa from his farm access was undoubtedly extreme, but a jury decided that he wasn’t guilty of dangerous driving or causing criminal damage as he did so. (If posting in this thread do please remember that the man is *not* guilty in law and refrain from libelling him
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-60260155
(BBC article includes a very entertaining video)
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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
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