Moment farmer blasts camper in SLURRY after catching him sleeping in a tent on his land
AN IRATE farmer caught a camper sleeping in his field and covered him in slurry.
Shocking footage shows angry Jack Bellamy spot the tent and say: “I tell you what these ***** will set up anywhere.”
He then jumps in his tractor and drives up alongside the trespasser and unleashes a 15 second blast of slurry.
The camper, dressed in a red top and a white sun hat, is seen desperately trying to zip up his tent before diving behind it as a wall of excrement is showered on him.
Jack, 29, is heard saying: “I’ll tell you what chap, have a bit of this.”
In the minute-long video the hapless cyclist is seen cowering for shelter as his entire tent and bike are covered in the brown stuff.
Jack, a third generation farmer from Tavistock, Devon, last night told The Sun: “I left him there covered in slurry.
“He never said a word.
“He couldn’t really argue with that.
“They come up from the towns and think they can do what they want.”
The beef and sheep farmer said he was annoyed because he’s had trouble from trespassers before and that there are two campsites just half a mile away from his field.
He added: “He just didn’t want to pay.”
Jack said he spotted the camper as he started work in his John Deere tractor at 6am on Tuesday.
He said: “I went out in the morning because I had to get on.
“When I looked in the field I saw a tent on the freshly cut grass.
“There was someone camped right up against the hedge.
“I’m sure he had a nice evening there, but he didn’t have a very nice wake up call.
“He must’ve heard the tractor coming because he was out of his tent.
“I said ‘You won’t be staying in anyone’s fields ever again and then I drove on and carried on with my morning.
“When my dad went back later the tent was gone, there was a white patch where the tent was and the slurry hadn’t been.
“I would hate to think what he smells like now.
“There is a campsite 400 yards in one direction and 600 yards in the other but they just please themselves these people.
“We’ve had people from towns walking in the fields.”
Jack, who has 200 cows and 650 sheep on his farm, added; “There is 50,000 acres of Dartmoor nearby and he chose to camp in my field.
“They come up from the towns and think they can do what they want.
“We’ve had loads of trouble with dogs worrying the sheep.
“They wouldn’t like it if I went camping in their garden.
“They’ve got no knowledge of the countryside at all.
“They probably think food grows on a plant or something.”
Jack said he hopes the video will serve as a lesson for other people thinking they can camp on farmer’s fields.
Wild camping laws in the UK
As campsites book up, families could be tempted to just pitch up in a nearby field.
However, wild camping is illegal in England and Wales, with the only exclusion in some parts of Dartmoor.
Campers must get permission from the landowner to camp, which includes tents and motorhomes, or risk being charged with trespassing.
Anyone who refuses to move when caught faces fines up to £2,500 if caught breaking the rules, although first time offenders are likely to be charged up to £300.
You could even face prison sentences of three months if refusing to leave when requested by police.
In Scotland, wild camping is legal, as long as local guidelines are followed.