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Farmer who kicked up a stink must pay the price
Muck spreader: Irate customer who sprayed bank with slurry is ordered by magistrates to provide pounds 2,000 in compensation
A farmer protested about alleged mismanagement of his bank account by driving a muck-spreader into a city centre and spraying a NatWest branch with four tonnes of foul-smelling cow manure, a court was told yesterday.
David Cannon, 66, blasted the slurry over the branch, in Newcastle upon Tyne, in a gesture which led to a two-week clean-up by stonemasons.
Cannon had a five-year battle with the bank, which he claimed had mismanaged his accounts, costing him more than pounds 100,000 and forcing him to sell his prize-winning herd of Ayrshire cows at his farm, near Ponteland, Northumberland.
After he started spraying the building, in Moseley Street, Newcastle, passers-by had to dive for cover.
Bank manager Alan Bell told Newcastle magistrates: "There was a large deposit of manure sprayed up the walls to considerable height and lying in a heap outside the door.
"We had to have scaffolding erected and the stonework professionally cleaned because the matter had leaked into the sandstone. The effluent was too deep to walk into the bank unless you had waders on."
originally posted by: CthulhuMythos
The farmer story made me smile but then I saw the picture, omg, that is so funny. Does it show that I have little sympathy for the banks at all?
Going to go check out the link now.
S&F for you both
originally posted by: Treespeaker
a reply to: Iwinder
Thanks, that there was some funny stuff.
And you know what? I learned something new lol.
Cheers
originally posted by: CthulhuMythos
Those really are brilliant. The ones I loved the most are the guy who turned his home phone number into a premium rate one and made money from pesky cold callers, the airline who paid a high price for ignoring the damage of a musicians guitar, the dude who ate for free over and over and the activist who caused Dow Chemicals a huge loss in 23 mins. I have no sympathy for big greedy corporations either.
originally posted by: skunkape23
I laughed so hard, I think I brewed a 'slurry.' Off to the bank.