Brickbat: Down on the Farm

In Wales, farmer Howard Walters has been sentenced to 12 months probation and ordered to pay £3,500 ($4,619) after a neighbor videotaped him allowing one of his grandchildren to ride in the cab of his tractor with him. Walters had already received an official warning from the Healthy and Safety Executive after he admitted allowing his grandchildren to ride with him in his tractor.

Comments

[Don't look at me!]

Too bad his neighbor’s house burned down.

[Minadin]

Seriously. Nosey-assed neighbors.

[Longtobefree]

The cultural norm is to burn the haystack first, as a reminder to behave.
Then, if there is no improvement, you burn the house down.

[SQRLSY]

Keep a mannequin in your cab! Snoops can get used to that! Substitute in your grandkid from time to time. And NEVER admit ANYTHING! (Twat next, will they outlaw mannequins in cabs?)

Also, kids die in cars too! Even with seatbelts! Outlaw kids in cars!!!

[Fist of Etiquette]

How on earth did the Limeys ever have an empire?

[SQRLSY]

Took spy photos of accused neighboring nations? And tied them up in nanny-istic red tape?

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

First by subjecting the Welsh into submission...may have gone a little too far there.

[Longtobefree]

They did things a bit differently then - - - - - - - - - -

[rbike]

I remember riding in the fenders of the D-17 as my dad drove around my grandparents farm. Also, 4 kids on the 170, some hanging off the 3 point hitch as we drove down gravel roads pulling the disk in road gear. Anyone losing their grip would be dead. (This actually happened to a classmate who rode the bus with me at a much later date.)

Fun times.

[Longtobefree]

The village will take your child to raise.

[Cyto]

For the morning discussion:

Republicans are pouncing! They are so pouncey they are actually seething! Seething and pouncing!

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4883106-republicans-trump-assassination-attempt/

[Idaho-Bob]

The Secret Service itself said its systems worked as designed to protect Trump.

[Longtobefree]

Let's see. There are two republican ex-presidents, and three democrat ex-presidents.
How many have had assassination attempts?
How many agents are deployed when Obama golfs, compared to the number deployed 'on that day'?

In Trump's case, shouldn't the number of agents allocated to a candidate be ADDED to the number allocated to an ex-president?

[AT]

That never gets old.

Democrats do something horrible. QUICK, shift the narrative to the Republicans pointing it out!

"You don't hate journalists enough. You think you do, but you don't."

[mad.casual]

But if it was a downed animal that he was trying to get back on its feet or somewhere else that it could be cared for and he invoked an Ag Gag law, we'd have a free speech issue on our hands.

But because parenting isn't illegal (yet) and farming leads to red meat consumption, which is evil, this is a case of a bad faith/bad actor neighbor trying to attack people and not a noble activist out trying to save children or defeat a world-destroying institution.

[TJJ2000]

How DARE any kids learn to work!!!! /s
The State 'Guns' will take care of them; eventually in gas-chambers as history tells.

[Brandybuck]

OMG! My grandpa would have been in soooo much trouble!

[Vernon Depner]

We need to affect a regime change in Britain to save their suffering people from tyranny.

[Dillinger]

tractors are for learning to operate machinery at pre-driving age.

[Chumby]

Walters’ Welch neighbor had been jonesin to report him for this.

[AT]

Neighbor have a prized horse?

Because this sounds like one of those times for him to wake up with its severed head in his bed.