It will be an interesting insurance case. The farmer raised the water level by a couple of feet so his insurance company will be on the hook for that. The water flowed slowly into the buildings but the tractor pushed a few tons at the windows damaging them, which will be down to the farmer.
Having just lived through the SEVERE flooding in Valencia. These people really annoy me and need to chill out and look at the bigger picture. The damage was already done. It's farmers and tractors exactly like that one that volunteered, donating their time, money and machinery. They did the most work cleaning up here in Valencia days before any national assistance arrived.
There’s other footage.. from inside a store where the window breaks and the water level rises.. lol fucked or not.. just because your house might be flooded doesn’t mean I can walk round popping all ya windows
@@ARCA2837To be fair, the surrounding homes are already damaged because of the flood water but who shall we blame for it? Let's all blame GOD, he's done it before. Acts of nature is not anyone's fault but it can be reasonably prevented by unblocking drains and digging channels each side of the roads for heavy down pours to run away to rivers. Maybe the council road maintenance team should be prepared for next time.
@@CommonSense65H Thats exactly what I said... I've lived through floods before. Every business in that pic has to be completely gutted and rebuilt. A broken window doesnt make it worse-- they have to be replaced anyway.
@@johnclements6614 This is like blaming the recovery truck driver for scratching your car when pulling it out of a ditch. At this stage the insurance claim is already going to happen so who cares if a new window is being added on top?!
@@ceecrb1 The owner of one of the shops whose window was smashed by the tractor said that after previous floods they had the sockets moved; plaster removed and walls rendered. She said that all they had to do was give it a good clean , and I assume replace any stock that they did not have time to move. Now she will be trading with a boarded up window and will have to stop trading again whist the new window is installed. There will now be two insurance claims with all that implies. One for the damage caused by the flood and one for the additional damage caused by the farmer, which the farmer will be paying for via his insurance.
@@krislees976 When the water gets higher it reaches more things. The more things that are reached the more things that have to be replaced. The water was slow moving when it flooded the town. The tractor caused waves that broke windows and would have overturned things inside.
@@SHERLOKHOMES-q1y Some shops it will have made a lot more damage others not so much. The shop and farmers loss adjusters will be having discussions and the farmer will end up paying more for insurance after his insurers have paid out.
End of story. Our comments mean nothing and our pathetic jousting is insignificant against the trauma of the poor people of Tenbury who also suffered a flood in 2020. Source:- Gloucestershire live. Shannon Brown, Bradley Jolly 14:01, 27 Nov 2024Updated14:08, 27 Nov 2024 The tractor was being taken to an employee so he could use it to get through the rising floodwaters to collect his child. In his rush to get it to his member of staff, he realised too late that he drove faster than he should have, and didn't consider the impact on surrounding buildings. He is deeply sorry for the upset and damage caused. He has spoken with police and his insurance company and will do whatever is necessary to put things right."
Could have been a farmer or farmer worker trying to get to their animals. Yes he sent water flying every where. In though windows and doors, but there are 2 sides to every story. Name calling my goodness
@@purplevelvet69how about driving slowly, so as not to cause a wake smashing windows and throwing filthy water into already damaged buildings? Isn’t that reckless driving?
@purplevelvet69 you sound incredibly thick. There are not 2 sides to this. There is 1 side, an idiot who caused unnecessary damage to people's properties
"genuinely don't think the farmer's intention" Are you ok...? 😂🤦♂️ If someone drives drunk, their INTENTION is normally to just get to their destination, not crash into someone. That doesn't mean it doesn't significantly increase the likelihood of that unintended thing happening tho. Intentional or not, this was insanely reckless
@@onetwo8847 hes definitely working could be moving to land where livestock is in trouble moving hay for animals he's done nothing wrong in the slightest
@@nunyaplayzhow does ANYTHING you've just said contradict me...?😂🤦♂️ You understand that I wasn't implying he was just randomly driving through the town to create waves, right....? He's in a tractor... OBVIOUSLY he's probably doing something related to his job lol. That doesn't change anything I've just said. You could replace a tractor with a supermarket delivery lorry and the point would be the same
Not saying that it's a farmer but it's a bit stupid......I would think that farmers need all the support they can get at the moment......this isn't the way to get it
You mean the 1% of wealthy landowners who are being asked to pay tax like the rest of us? Sorry, that's the truth, can't let the media's lies about "farmers" get in the way of a good Tory smear campaign can we?
Did you see the tractor drive through the street at speed through flood water? Year that smashed several windows and the wash further ruined other peoples property inside the buildings. You can’t “go about your way” if you do something that damages other people’s stuff 😂 we would only be doomed if people like you had any say in anything
It would be impossible to show criminal damage, and he was travelling along a defined public road. Had the road been closed? No. So cannot see how he can be prosecuted for anything really.
@@j.b3561 Do you think the glass was stopping the water getting in? It will come through the walls and up from the floor. The glass has no value against this much water. "Slow tidal surge" ffs....
No Farmers! No Food! The farmer obviously had to be somewhere urgently so he can feed the country! Farming is hard enough without the government and public getting involved!
@PaulSavagecomedy only farmers understand the pressure we are currently under! Unless you want to thank a farmer for providing the food you ate today, then the public should leave us to it!
@@johnclements6614 He made the wet stuff wetter? You realise that when water gets to a certain height things tend to overbalance anyway and that water is high so what was likely damaged that wouldn't have been? Flood damage like that means full claim for the ground floor. Some wood and metal items such as furniture are likely the only things to be salvagable.
@@damionkeeling3103 If you had waded across that road and then I chucked a bucket of water in your face would you be wetter. Not everything floats. Shops tend to use heavy shelving. This place has a history of flooding so I would imagine they would have cheap shelving with the intention of skipping it or as you say heavy wood or metal shelves. Things can certainly be overturned by a wave even if they don't float. A few tonnes of fast moving water would overturn a lot of things. One of the business whose window was caved in by the farmer said that they had had the sockets moved and the walls cement rendered. Would have been up and running in a few days after a clean. Now they will have to trade with a smashed window or remain closed for a few weeks. The farmers insurer will have to pay for additional damage he caused and the increased down time of the business.
Yes, everything was just fine untill that tractor decided to drive down the high street . I think we should blame farmers generally and their opposition of the inheritance tax reforms. Right? ….. right? ….. give me a break.
How ridiculous can people get - the entire high street was already fucked! Petty minded nonsense and the police make it worse by arresting him for going about his work.
The farmer damaged property that was not flooded until he went but, like the pub. He was giving a lift to an employee because they could not drive there, not working.
@ So you’re suggesting those shops were not already trashed - they were fucked either way, even if his drive by broke the odd window all those premise we’re already under several feet of water and would’ve been written off for a complete insurance refit, windows included, broken or not. Plus you ignore the fact he was actually trying to do a community service by getting someone to work who couldn’t have got there without his help. Pack mentally to blame individuals trying to help in a difficult situation is the resort of cowards.
@@RichardS-qh8mi There were undamaged properties before he arrived. The farmer has apologised and has stated that his insurance will be dealing with the damage. """ “It’s devastating, that’s the only word for it,” said Paul Birkin, the owner of the Crow pub. “Yes it was bad, the water had come up, but nothing would have happened to the pub if it wasn’t for the tractor. There wasn’t a drop of water in here until he drove through. “This business would have probably got away with it but he came down, for whatever reason, at that speed.” The locked front doors of the pub were pushed open and smashed, along with the windows next to it, with the wave of water knocking sandbags across the room."" From Guardian 25 Nov.
@@johnclements6614 That publican admitted the water was already inside, same goes for any other shop owners. I’m currently dealing with an insurance flood claim and can tell you any damage will be covered by the underwriters regardless.
If one side of your car is damaged I can damage the other side because its damaged anyway. The farmer raised the water level and forced water at speed into the buildings.
The 21st century, and the world havent invested in the technology to suction gallons of water away from towns and villages........ You know they just love these disasters.....
He was driving with undue care and attention. Doesn't matter what his motivations were, he had no business driving through a flooded high street at that speed with utter disregard for the property he was obviously damaging. What would you say if his actions on the high street had killed someone? What would you say to the business owners who's premises are wide open and are likely to be looted? What would you say to the people who aren't going to get paid because it's going to take longer and be more costly to repair than it would have otherwise? Or is it only farmers doing imaginary good deeds who matter?
@@katem2411 Sounds like you don't know how to drive through flooded roads. You have to keep up momentum and a fairly constant speed or your engine will flood. That water was deep enough to cover the Tractor engine.
@@Thurgosh_OG If you have to damage other peoples property to get somewhere maybe you should do it. The farmer insurance will be paying for part of the flood damage caused by the farmer but the people whose property would have preferred less damage.
@Thurgosh_OG sweetie, my grandfather was a farmer. He taught me how to drive - farm equipment and regular vehicles. Part of that was how to drive responsibility in the given conditions - quite frankly, that farmer was an inconsiderate moron. He would have known that he couldn't drive through the high street without causing wakes/damage and endangering people. He did it anyway, and he did it poorly - look at how he almost lost control and veered out of the road. You may imagine you know how to drive in flood conditions, but you clearly don't have the intelligence to know when and where you shouldn't try it.
Like I don't understand what the farmers supposed to do do people think just because it rains farmers can't work? They have to do everything with the crops the animals etc they have to still take livestock to markets or slaughterhouses etc everything doesn't just stop because of a bit of rain
Calm down cupcake. That's just normal people reporting a farmer committing a criminal offence. All that public support for the farmers disappeared pretty fast. .
What a joke of a video, the farmers either in his way home or on his way to his farm the damage was done regardless from this poncey storm the uk clearly coudlnt handle, reporting a working class man for driving through a flooded village what a joke you lot really are
It is a town and they regularly drive through, even though there is a kinky narrow bridge there. I have even seen ones doing their shopping in a tractor.
Very weird how the Times commentors are in favor of reckless driving and criminal damage but the video on the Independent has sensible comments about how ridiculous it is to drive down a flooded high street... Made me lose a bit of hope for this papers readership
headlines uk . A tractor has caused floods and millions of pounds worth of damage because he drove down a flooded street that had flooded shops both sides of the road .
No he increased the flooding and he flooded property like the pub that was not flooded. Some properties he may have cause no additional damage, some he will have to pay for a new window, he will have to pay 100% of the damage to the pub.
All the gasps and feigned shock?!? The shops are already flooded! For all we know he may have been trying to save his livestock or do you all think he decided to risk his tractor and reputation by driving through the streets for absolutely no reason? Whining prats.
1) It was not, "feigned shock." 2) He may have been, --- "trying to save his livestock----" ----- maybe then it would be justifiable. 3) Anyway, according to the Daily Mail online, ( By RICHARD MARSDEN and ANDY DOLAN 21:15 26 Nov 2024, updated 07:32 27 Nov 2024) friends of the driver said that he was rushing to get to a child. So in that case his actions would be justified-----, if the child's life were in danger, it didn't say.
@@yrmums it's all the 'do gooders' mourning as usually. How do they know he wasn't going to rescue somebody or do a good turn by pulling a car out of somewhere. Gosh these people need to get a grip.
Yet he hasnt even damaged anything. Just because he was able to do that with his tractor, thats what people are fuming about. He hasnt caused ANY damage and this is an obvious way of making farmers look bad when theyre actually genius and need a hell of a lot more credit than what they get. And it was a dramatic day for everyone there after the whole incident with the floods and then the fire department etc... The media posting this is bad. Thanks Gates.
Agreed. People always looking for someone to blame. Building on flood plains, poor river management and mad "green policies" made by people who have never left London are the real culprits.
All those buildings are completely ruined anyway. A bit of broken glass is nothing on top of the devastation that's already happened. Those people are getting wound up over nothing.
The loss adjusters will be deciding what damage the farmer caused and what pre existed. Some place 50% may be coming out of his insurance other places further away maybe 5%. He will be getting a massive hike in insurance especially because it was not an accident.
@@nunyaplayz Needed collecting because his employee could not drive there because of the depth of water, not rising water. Could have left the child there where they were safe or waited for one of the firebrigade boats to move them from one safe place to another.
Clearly you're not British... We have laws against this kind of behavior. Thankfully he's been arrested and will lose everything he owns thanks to the bill he'll receive.
@@mikefoley360pay attention - you can see the wake caused by the speeding tractor broke the glass of a lot of the stores - it would have made the interior flooding a lot worse and increased the likelihood of those stores being looted/increased the time it will take to get them operational.
Everything was already covered in water and mud obviously he had to get somewhere likely to help out .a bit more mud on the windows was really not going to make a difference.complaining Andys
He caused over £100,000 worth of damage to properties and businesses. That's why he's been arrested and will be made too foot the bill. If he doesn't pay up he'll lose his farm and livelihood
I've seen this type of scene before, water displacement can create enormous damages! A lot of people can't get a simple fact, only 1 cube meter of water is 1 ton! When a tractor like this one move in, it pushes tons of water coming crushing as strong as a wall!
One can only hope that farmer or farmworker pays the punishment and compensation for his wreckless driving. It is long overdue that tractor drivers were put under scrutiny. This evening, I passed a tractor coming along in the opposite direction and there must have been over 250 vehicles beind him. The trail of traffic went on for a couple of miles because the ignorant driver wouldn't pull over. On the A59, there are plenty of places to pull in but not many to overtake after 4:30pm.
Farmer drives through flood. Idiot films it and complains then farmer gets blamed for damage. 😂 what is the uk turning in too. Trial by social media. It’s a dangerous road to go down
It would be virtually impossible to distinguish what damage was done by the tractor and what damage (if any) was caused by the tractor. I feel sorry for those shop owners who had damaged shops, but don't put the blame on someone else when the damage has already been done.
All these people here who defend this farmer have never had flooddamage and dont realise that those shopowners have more to do then replace broken windows to keep looters out.
What does that have to do with the tractor? It's not like the owners were being prevented from boarding up their shops in waist high water because the tractor was making the water wobble a bit.
@@damionkeeling3103 The farmer damaged property that was undamaged. "" Paul Birkin, owner of the Crow Inn pub, said: "Nothing would have happened to the pub if it wasn't for the tractor. There wasn't a drop of water in here until he drove through. The locked front doors of the pub were pushed open and smashed, along with the windows next to it, with the wave of water knocking sandbags across the room."" From Gloucester Live. You should read the article on the 27 Nov.
A couple of busted windows is nothing compared to the insurance costs in putting these shops and houses back into a useable condition,added to the fact that the driver already offered to get his insurers involved regarding any further damage he caused,buildings and material things can be replaced,humans cannot.
Criminal damage??? He's doing everyone a huge favour there..get the maximum off the insurance companies. A months wages says we'll hear of a story with one insurer not paying out!
Here in the UK aluminium is okay so long as it's over 16mm² [i think that's 6 AWG your side of the pond]. The issue with aluminium isn't so much bi-metalic galvanic corrosion - a well made joint can manage this. The issue is that aluminium isn't anywhere near as ductile as copper and therefore is more likely to fracture. So fine for distribution but not acceptable for final circuits to domestic and commercial loads.
These melts that film and complain about everything,,, remember the guy who used to cycle around London filming people using their phone whilst driving then report them to the police,,,, got ran over 😱😂🤣
On the plus side the farmer has been arrested and the judge will force him to pay the £100,000+ worth of damage to properties and businesses. If he doesn't pay up he'll lose his farm and livelihood. Oh I just remembered. He'll lose his driving licence too. So no mare jolly joy rides for him. I wonder if the buses run near his farm?
Someone's pulling some strings to try and give farmers a bad name........... But then I've always been a bit of a conspiracy realist, sorry, theorist 🧐
@@connorwood9211 by that logic the local govenment should all also be convicted as theres clearly not enough drainage in the area they are all causing property damage.
Farmer angry about tax on his £3 million fortune. (which Labour proposes to tax at LOWER rate than for anyone else ). Playing in his £200k brand new tax deductible tractor ... their accountants tell them to keep buying new ones as often as they can to dodge tax. Can't make farmers happy ... they grab fortunes from EU subsidies ..then vote against EU. They vote for Brexit and the disaster Tory aussie trade deal which shafts farmers. Now they want special treatment !! (yes I know they work hard but so do lots of people especially near the bottom of the wage pile who don't get £3 million+ to give to their kids )
How did the camera man know the exact moment it was coming round the corner,and start moaning immediately. Obviously a psyop to make farmers look bad. We love the farmers,keep up your great work. 50,000 views,and 200 Likes,tells me a few folk are disliking this video. Lolz.
House next to house, lots of cars.......all is too crowded; this is not natural. We people should get closer to nature. Floods do not affect so much beings that live close to nature
Well done farmer I would of done the same to save a child no matter what cost an damage, you people are gonna claim anyway from the flood stop complaining ffs and start apologising to the farmer
What was the idiot doing anyway?! He reminds me of "caravan enthusiasts" who cause trouble & damage for no benefit. I saw some "keys to a pie" on trail bikes just deliberately holding their bikes while spinning the rear wheel, spraying mud from a grassy area onto the road & pavement nearby...which made it slippy & difficult for old people, mums with prams et al who had to walk on the main road instead. They didn't gain anything apart from knowing that they've made some people's lives more difficult, possibly endangering them too & irritated people they don't even know. In fact, not only didn't they benefit at all from this but they must've made themselves & their bikes filthy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That poor, poor farmer, in his outdated and antiquated tractor, which definitely doesn't cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, expressing his concern for all the local villagers in their time of hardship (like they do while 'looking after' the countryside). And that's the sort of person I'm supposed to sympathise with as they continue to avoid paying tax?
Don’t worry , when all the land labour grabs , has HMSO housing on it that should cheer you up . Sounds like you voted Labour ,. And all the millions tax payers money Labour have been given to foreign Farmers . Make you feel better too .:
@@GrantCoppin-Brown Yeah, all those foreign farmers, coming over here and stealing all our farmland but at the same time being given billions of pounds in free money, beause that makes complete sense, in a non-fiction kind of way. You get all that info from the Daily Mail did you? 😂😂
One farmer and all of a sudden the hyena’s come out in packs. Just secretly loving it, to pile more misery on the community. Politics of envy never end well.
Oh yeah, the street was doing totally fine before he did that 😮...
Tractor causes huge damage whilst flood stands by looking shocked.
It will be an interesting insurance case. The farmer raised the water level by a couple of feet so his insurance company will be on the hook for that. The water flowed slowly into the buildings but the tractor pushed a few tons at the windows damaging them, which will be down to the farmer.
@@johnclements6614 bullshit, the water didnt even splash more than 8 inches.
How can a flood look shocked?
Having just lived through the SEVERE flooding in Valencia. These people really annoy me and need to chill out and look at the bigger picture. The damage was already done. It's farmers and tractors exactly like that one that volunteered, donating their time, money and machinery. They did the most work cleaning up here in Valencia days before any national assistance arrived.
Different situations.
This add for John Deere is much better than the new Jaguar add....🚜🚜💦💦💦💦💦
👍😂😂😂 Definitely!....
As if he's causing more damage the shops are already shoulder deep in water. Good advert for tractors though
What additional damage? Not a window or door smashed or broken in any of those clips.
John Deere or whoever made it should pay his legal bills.
Your shoulders are in a strange place.
what are you 2ft tall
@stulofty2008 a standard tractor tyre is 1.95 meters 🙃
I don’t see any windows breaking.
And those shops are already completely fucked.
There’s other footage.. from inside a store where the window breaks and the water level rises.. lol fucked or not.. just because your house might be flooded doesn’t mean I can walk round popping all ya windows
There's only one thing that needs breaking here👎
@@ARCA2837To be fair, the surrounding homes are already damaged because of the flood water but who shall we blame for it? Let's all blame GOD, he's done it before. Acts of nature is not anyone's fault but it can be reasonably prevented by unblocking drains and digging channels each side of the roads for heavy down pours to run away to rivers. Maybe the council road maintenance team should be prepared for next time.
@@CommonSense65H Thats exactly what I said... I've lived through floods before. Every business in that pic has to be completely gutted and rebuilt.
A broken window doesnt make it worse-- they have to be replaced anyway.
The shops look like they are already damaged.
And because of the farmer they suffered more damage.
@@johnclements6614 This is like blaming the recovery truck driver for scratching your car when pulling it out of a ditch. At this stage the insurance claim is already going to happen so who cares if a new window is being added on top?!
@@johnclements6614 No they didn't.
@@ceecrb1 The owner of one of the shops whose window was smashed by the tractor said that after previous floods they had the sockets moved; plaster removed and walls rendered. She said that all they had to do was give it a good clean , and I assume replace any stock that they did not have time to move.
Now she will be trading with a boarded up window and will have to stop trading again whist the new window is installed.
There will now be two insurance claims with all that implies. One for the damage caused by the flood and one for the additional damage caused by the farmer, which the farmer will be paying for via his insurance.
@@krislees976 When the water gets higher it reaches more things. The more things that are reached the more things that have to be replaced.
The water was slow moving when it flooded the town. The tractor caused waves that broke windows and would have overturned things inside.
The attitudes of the bystanders is insufferable. Whiners.
Typical brits. They live in a police state with no freedom of speech, and it shows.
Oh be quiet
Posh Brits love a good moan when anything slightly out of the ordinary occurs.
If only they didn't whine like the patriotic farmers eh who don't want to pay tax like the rest of us. Pathetic
@@blazzz13 well for one its not the farmers paying the inheritance tax, its their children..
Straight away just showing how smart you are.
Whats did he do wrong? Not getting this?
YES INDEED 🤣🤣
Pushed water at speed into buildings raising the water level.
@@johnclements6614 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 YER IT MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@SHERLOKHOMES-q1y Some shops it will have made a lot more damage others not so much.
The shop and farmers loss adjusters will be having discussions and the farmer will end up paying more for insurance after his insurers have paid out.
@@johnclements6614 BULLSHIT.
End of story. Our comments mean nothing and our pathetic jousting is insignificant against the trauma of the poor people of Tenbury who also suffered a flood in 2020.
Source:- Gloucestershire live.
Shannon Brown, Bradley Jolly
14:01, 27 Nov 2024Updated14:08, 27 Nov 2024
The tractor was being taken to an employee so he could use it to get through the rising floodwaters to collect his child. In his rush to get it to his member of staff, he realised too late that he drove faster than he should have, and didn't consider the impact on surrounding buildings. He is deeply sorry for the upset and damage caused. He has spoken with police and his insurance company and will do whatever is necessary to put things right."
Maybe he has a job to do? The buildings were already ruined.. fools!
What's the job? Ensure that everything that isn't ruined yet in those businesses gets ruined?
He could have slowed down and caused less backwash.
Do you really think this made any difference, every property is soaked.
How many windows and doors did he break? Added damage that wasn't needed. Insurance will pay but there is also the added time required for repair.
Nanny state , when can you drive your John Dee down the high st ?
Could have been a farmer or farmer worker trying to get to their animals. Yes he sent water flying every where. In though windows and doors, but there are 2 sides to every story. Name calling my goodness
@@purplevelvet69how about driving slowly, so as not to cause a wake smashing windows and throwing filthy water into already damaged buildings? Isn’t that reckless driving?
@purplevelvet69 you sound incredibly thick. There are not 2 sides to this. There is 1 side, an idiot who caused unnecessary damage to people's properties
It didn't outrage me. I thought he looked like he was just getting on with farmer stuff like he should be.
These people somehow overlooked the water that has already destroyed everything it's touched... Imbeciles.
Dramatising trying to get ppl into trouble for no reason. Genuinely dnt think the farmers intention was to use tractor to damage property further.
"genuinely don't think the farmer's intention"
Are you ok...?
😂🤦♂️ If someone drives drunk, their INTENTION is normally to just get to their destination, not crash into someone. That doesn't mean it doesn't significantly increase the likelihood of that unintended thing happening tho.
Intentional or not, this was insanely reckless
@@onetwo8847 hes definitely working could be moving to land where livestock is in trouble moving hay for animals he's done nothing wrong in the slightest
@@nunyaplayzhe's a farmer!!! He needs his land taken off him immediately, lashes in front of the community and deported!!! Keep up with the times
@@nunyaplayzhow does ANYTHING you've just said contradict me...?😂🤦♂️ You understand that I wasn't implying he was just randomly driving through the town to create waves, right....? He's in a tractor... OBVIOUSLY he's probably doing something related to his job lol. That doesn't change anything I've just said. You could replace a tractor with a supermarket delivery lorry and the point would be the same
Fkn wise up! Blaming a farmer because the council can’t clean the storm drains!
The damge was already done. He was probably going to help someone. It was farmers removing trees blocking roads, etc where I am.
Not saying that it's a farmer but it's a bit stupid......I would think that farmers need all the support they can get at the moment......this isn't the way to get it
So it could be a set up then to win back support?
You mean the 1% of wealthy landowners who are being asked to pay tax like the rest of us? Sorry, that's the truth, can't let the media's lies about "farmers" get in the way of a good Tory smear campaign can we?
Well they just lost local support in that town. Time to tax them until their pips squeak.,
Who else would have a £200k+ (according to Jezza) tractor?
Clearly it was not the farmer, it will be one of his workers
So blaming the tractor driver for flooding their property , no sorry damage had already been done
Yeah there's already litter on the street so I just dump all rubbish wherever I like.
Doesn't even matter. It's just an A-hole thing to do, simple as that.
If your house is on fire I would not chuck a can of petrol in the window because "sorry damage had already been done".
So someone getting on with their day as normal gets arrested. We are doomed.
Did you see the tractor drive through the street at speed through flood water? Year that smashed several windows and the wash further ruined other peoples property inside the buildings. You can’t “go about your way” if you do something that damages other people’s stuff 😂 we would only be doomed if people like you had any say in anything
It is not like there are not other ways to go that avoid the town
Do people not understand floods? All the tractor driver did was make a splash, the water will have already got through walls and under the floor.
It would be impossible to show criminal damage, and he was travelling along a defined public road. Had the road been closed? No. So cannot see how he can be prosecuted for anything really.
For being stupid.
Windows that had survived the slow tidal surge were later broken by the pressure of the wave caused by the tractor. What a title.
Also was this tea tie driver liking for people who needed help ??
@@j.b3561 Do you think the glass was stopping the water getting in? It will come through the walls and up from the floor. The glass has no value against this much water. "Slow tidal surge" ffs....
@@j.b3561your fun at parties
No Farmers! No Food! The farmer obviously had to be somewhere urgently so he can feed the country! Farming is hard enough without the government and public getting involved!
Oh come on!
Couldn’t go slower so there wasn’t a big wake behind him?
@PaulSavagecomedy only farmers understand the pressure we are currently under! Unless you want to thank a farmer for providing the food you ate today, then the public should leave us to it!
The floods were innocent the tractor caused all the damage
No the tractor only caused part of the damage and the farmer will only get part of the bill.
That is what they ate saying an all their poor belongings an houses 😢 good job the child survived though eh
The street was already flooded, the shops were already damaged, what difference did it make?
The farmer made the water higher and move at speed into the building. Added to the damage.
@@johnclements6614 He made the wet stuff wetter? You realise that when water gets to a certain height things tend to overbalance anyway and that water is high so what was likely damaged that wouldn't have been? Flood damage like that means full claim for the ground floor. Some wood and metal items such as furniture are likely the only things to be salvagable.
@@damionkeeling3103 If you had waded across that road and then I chucked a bucket of water in your face would you be wetter.
Not everything floats. Shops tend to use heavy shelving. This place has a history of flooding so I would imagine they would have cheap shelving with the intention of skipping it or as you say heavy wood or metal shelves.
Things can certainly be overturned by a wave even if they don't float. A few tonnes of fast moving water would overturn a lot of things.
One of the business whose window was caved in by the farmer said that they had had the sockets moved and the walls cement rendered. Would have been up and running in a few days after a clean. Now they will have to trade with a smashed window or remain closed for a few weeks.
The farmers insurer will have to pay for additional damage he caused and the increased down time of the business.
Whats the law against driveing a tractor though deep water?
It was just a tractor doing tractor things.
The farmer will have higher premiums once his insurers have paid out for all the damage.
They are just pissed off because the farmer could get through 😂
I wonder if these are the type of people who think the farmers inheritance tax is a good idea too
John Deere - makers of London's finest school run automobiles.
What if he was off to rescue his pets or livestock ,surely animals lives matter , more than material damage to posh shop fronts .
What if he was on his way to deliver a laptop full of child pornography to a Russian banker? What then?
@@PaulSavagecomedyIf that's what first to spring into your mind Paul , then its more then little bit suss .where did you meet this banker ?
Yes, everything was just fine untill that tractor decided to drive down the high street .
I think we should blame farmers generally and their opposition of the inheritance tax reforms.
Right? ….. right? ….. give me a break.
No the tractor made things worse.
Make no difference
How ridiculous can people get - the entire high street was already fucked! Petty minded nonsense and the police make it worse by arresting him for going about his work.
They likely went to the same school as the whingers.
The farmer damaged property that was not flooded until he went but, like the pub.
He was giving a lift to an employee because they could not drive there, not working.
@ So you’re suggesting those shops were not already trashed - they were fucked either way, even if his drive by broke the odd window all those premise we’re already under several feet of water and would’ve been written off for a complete insurance refit, windows included, broken or not. Plus you ignore the fact he was actually trying to do a community service by getting someone to work who couldn’t have got there without his help. Pack mentally to blame individuals trying to help in a difficult situation is the resort of cowards.
@@RichardS-qh8mi There were undamaged properties before he arrived. The farmer has apologised and has stated that his insurance will be dealing with the damage.
""" “It’s devastating, that’s the only word for it,” said Paul Birkin, the owner of the Crow pub. “Yes it was bad, the water had come up, but nothing would have happened to the pub if it wasn’t for the tractor. There wasn’t a drop of water in here until he drove through.
“This business would have probably got away with it but he came down, for whatever reason, at that speed.”
The locked front doors of the pub were pushed open and smashed, along with the windows next to it, with the wave of water knocking sandbags across the room.""
From Guardian 25 Nov.
@@johnclements6614 That publican admitted the water was already inside, same goes for any other shop owners. I’m currently dealing with an insurance flood claim and can tell you any damage will be covered by the underwriters regardless.
You'll complain when he can't get to his farm to farm your food.
Not sure what the problem is really , if a road is under that water he’s allowed to drive on it .
He created waves which damaged shop windows.
He drove erratically, causing damage.
@ didn’t know there was a law for driving through flood water 🤣.
@@oddities-whatnotaye cos the windows had stopped the flood getting in and damaging everything inside the shop... 🙄
if he'd had a trailer on tow it'd have had the wrong number plate on. Farmers are pirates. You don't see it but everyone else does.
It hardly matters surely. It's flooded anyway.
If one side of your car is damaged I can damage the other side because its damaged anyway.
The farmer raised the water level and forced water at speed into the buildings.
The 21st century, and the world havent invested in the technology to suction gallons of water away from towns and villages........ You know they just love these disasters.....
How do you know if he was going to rescue someone or animals. Why else would he be in a hurry ?? How would you feel if he saved someone’s life.??
He was driving with undue care and attention. Doesn't matter what his motivations were, he had no business driving through a flooded high street at that speed with utter disregard for the property he was obviously damaging. What would you say if his actions on the high street had killed someone? What would you say to the business owners who's premises are wide open and are likely to be looted? What would you say to the people who aren't going to get paid because it's going to take longer and be more costly to repair than it would have otherwise?
Or is it only farmers doing imaginary good deeds who matter?
@@katem2411 Sounds like you don't know how to drive through flooded roads. You have to keep up momentum and a fairly constant speed or your engine will flood. That water was deep enough to cover the Tractor engine.
@@Thurgosh_OG If you have to damage other peoples property to get somewhere maybe you should do it. The farmer insurance will be paying for part of the flood damage caused by the farmer but the people whose property would have preferred less damage.
@Thurgosh_OG sweetie, my grandfather was a farmer. He taught me how to drive - farm equipment and regular vehicles. Part of that was how to drive responsibility in the given conditions - quite frankly, that farmer was an inconsiderate moron. He would have known that he couldn't drive through the high street without causing wakes/damage and endangering people. He did it anyway, and he did it poorly - look at how he almost lost control and veered out of the road.
You may imagine you know how to drive in flood conditions, but you clearly don't have the intelligence to know when and where you shouldn't try it.
Like I don't understand what the farmers supposed to do do people think just because it rains farmers can't work? They have to do everything with the crops the animals etc they have to still take livestock to markets or slaughterhouses etc everything doesn't just stop because of a bit of rain
Have you got his number plate? We need to report him. The UK truly has become a police state 🙁
So if you saw someone causing damage would you just look away and expect people not to report them if they damaged your property?
And causing additional damage to people's shops is completely fine then?
Calm down cupcake. That's just normal people reporting a farmer committing a criminal offence. All that public support for the farmers disappeared pretty fast. .
@@Moscow_Will_Burn what public support? I never supported the moaning farmers.
Reporting criminal damages makes it a "police state"?
What a joke of a video, the farmers either in his way home or on his way to his farm the damage was done regardless from this poncey storm the uk clearly coudlnt handle, reporting a working class man for driving through a flooded village what a joke you lot really are
And you are a buffoon of the highest order
It is a town and they regularly drive through, even though there is a kinky narrow bridge there. I have even seen ones doing their shopping in a tractor.
America and Russia going at it. Us Brits have Bert
A distraction as KS arranges UK troops into EU army. Modified weather
😂😂😂
You mean NATO (so us brits!) and Russia are going at it!
@@Keepingit1hunna have we got that far yet?
Did anyone see the notice that said fireworks for sale? 😂😂😂 bet they’re a bit damp now.
Very weird how the Times commentors are in favor of reckless driving and criminal damage but the video on the Independent has sensible comments about how ridiculous it is to drive down a flooded high street... Made me lose a bit of hope for this papers readership
They're just jealous cos they haven't got a tractor 🚜
headlines uk .
A tractor has caused floods and millions of pounds worth of damage because he drove down a flooded street that had flooded shops both sides of the road .
No he increased the flooding and he flooded property like the pub that was not flooded. Some properties he may have cause no additional damage, some he will have to pay for a new window, he will have to pay 100% of the damage to the pub.
Typical non tax paying farmer.
On his way to the bank?
All the gasps and feigned shock?!? The shops are already flooded! For all we know he may have been trying to save his livestock or do you all think he decided to risk his tractor and reputation by driving through the streets for absolutely no reason? Whining prats.
Rubbish. He drove like an idiot.
@@j.b3561get a grip mate
1) It was not, "feigned shock."
2) He may have been, --- "trying to save his livestock----" ----- maybe then it would be justifiable.
3) Anyway, according to the Daily Mail online, ( By RICHARD MARSDEN and ANDY DOLAN 21:15 26 Nov 2024, updated 07:32 27 Nov 2024) friends of the driver said that he was rushing to get to a child. So in that case his actions would be justified-----, if the child's life were in danger, it didn't say.
Well said
False flag to demonise farmers? Wouldn't put it past starmer
Certainly rings a bell
Christ, does everything have to be a conspiracy with you people?
@@Footplate2012 If they can do 7/7, they can drive a tractor through a flood.
@@MattyEngland 7/7? Can you hear yourself? Have some respect for the victims.
No, I live around the corner, it was witnessed by plenty of people.
it's not the water wouldnt have gone into the buildings anyway
Is it you. That's sort comment he would of made
It’s true . wtf is everyone moaning about ?
all the shops are flooded before he drives through it !
@@yrmums it's all the 'do gooders' mourning as usually. How do they know he wasn't going to rescue somebody or do a good turn by pulling a car out of somewhere. Gosh these people need to get a grip.
@@yrmums Reel your neck in, he's driving like a tool and caused loads more damage than the initial flood
But the windows and doors wouldn't have been smashed.
And the police arrested the driver....REALLY!!!
What did you imagine was going to happen? 😂
YER BUT NOT SIR MARK ROWLEY FOR CRIMINAL DAMAGE THST HE DID .
@@katem2411 I DID NOT EXPECT ENEY THING. .
@katem2411 not getting arrested seen far worse than this
@@briankelly5816 he broke the law. Expect consequences.
Yet he hasnt even damaged anything. Just because he was able to do that with his tractor, thats what people are fuming about.
He hasnt caused ANY damage and this is an obvious way of making farmers look bad when theyre actually genius and need a hell of a lot more credit than what they get.
And it was a dramatic day for everyone there after the whole incident with the floods and then the fire department etc...
The media posting this is bad.
Thanks Gates.
Windows were broken. The windows survived the slow rise of the tidal surge.
Agreed. People always looking for someone to blame. Building on flood plains, poor river management and mad "green policies" made by people who have never left London are the real culprits.
The driver should have driven slower,that’s patently obvious.
@@Pureblood10000 I said he didn't damage anything.
That's pretty obvious too!
@@j.b3561 Tell me or show me who's windows he broke then.
All those buildings are completely ruined anyway. A bit of broken glass is nothing on top of the devastation that's already happened. Those people are getting wound up over nothing.
The loss adjusters will be deciding what damage the farmer caused and what pre existed. Some place 50% may be coming out of his insurance other places further away maybe 5%. He will be getting a massive hike in insurance especially because it was not an accident.
Oh my good god what a bunch of Karen's 😂
He's going from one bit of farmland to another rescuing animals or doing farmwork whats your problem
He was actually going to give someone a lift because they could not drive.
@johnclements6614 an employees daughter needed picking up from rising waters
@@nunyaplayz Needed collecting because his employee could not drive there because of the depth of water, not rising water. Could have left the child there where they were safe or waited for one of the firebrigade boats to move them from one safe place to another.
@johnclements6614 i read it was rising waters and an employee needed the tractor to pick up child from rising water
@johnclements6614 be different if it was your kid i guess you would just leave them
Worse things happen at sea!
The flood damage was already done ...leave farmer alone,.....more excuses against farmers , maybe he had a reason for travelling ...
Farmer caused more damage.
Must have had a reason, maybe he was on a rescue mission?! Seems a bit random otherwise
@@miko1975guitar rushing off to collect the taxpayer subsidies that keep his farm and tractor afloat
Since when has it wrong to drive through a puddle!?
Clearly you're not British... We have laws against this kind of behavior. Thankfully he's been arrested and will lose everything he owns thanks to the bill he'll receive.
@@Moscow_Will_Burn77th brigade troll account. Just check out the username.
When it's causing property damage
@@connorwood9211 Its not caused any damage, the properties are already flooded.
@@mikefoley360pay attention - you can see the wake caused by the speeding tractor broke the glass of a lot of the stores - it would have made the interior flooding a lot worse and increased the likelihood of those stores being looted/increased the time it will take to get them operational.
The shops were already flooded 😂 not like he made it worse
He flooded property that the flood water had not reached. Caused 100% of damage to the pub.
Yeah like he's going to cause more damage,, your town is under 5ft of water ,, get a grip
Everything was already covered in water and mud obviously he had to get somewhere likely to help out .a bit more mud on the windows was really not going to make a difference.complaining Andys
Exactly
But after he went through the windows and doors were smashed.
@@petersmithm9who said that then?
He caused over £100,000 worth of damage to properties and businesses. That's why he's been arrested and will be made too foot the bill. If he doesn't pay up he'll lose his farm and livelihood
@@Moscow_Will_Burn Sut up troll. So boring.
I've seen this type of scene before, water displacement can create enormous damages! A lot of people can't get a simple fact, only 1 cube meter of water is 1 ton! When a tractor like this one move in, it pushes tons of water coming crushing as strong as a wall!
One can only hope that farmer or farmworker pays the punishment and compensation for his wreckless driving. It is long overdue that tractor drivers were put under scrutiny. This evening, I passed a tractor coming along in the opposite direction and there must have been over 250 vehicles beind him. The trail of traffic went on for a couple of miles because the ignorant driver wouldn't pull over. On the A59, there are plenty of places to pull in but not many to overtake after 4:30pm.
He has been charged with drive by soaking
Farmer drives through flood. Idiot films it and complains then farmer gets blamed for damage. 😂 what is the uk turning in too. Trial by social media. It’s a dangerous road to go down
Middle class waste men on social media
@ this doesn’t make sense I’m afraid.
It would be virtually impossible to distinguish what damage was done by the tractor and what damage (if any) was caused by the tractor. I feel sorry for those shop owners who had damaged shops, but don't put the blame on someone else when the damage has already been done.
What damage did he do
Apparently nothing more than had been done already.
Made me want to buy a john deere
You can clearly see he's doing it with intent
Well I'd like to think he wasn't asleep at the wheel.
Must be hard being a farmer in Tenbury Wells all that water bogging up the streets and probably the surrounding area.
And this made the news…the people filming and whining are actually pathetic, seriously The Times! Go and do some proper journalism.
He was rushing home to move his new Range-Rover up to higher ground.
Work on a farm for a week and you would pay some respect. Hard work.
@@gravydavy4188 you should know better, son.
@@gravydavy4188 bot
All these people here who defend this farmer have never had flooddamage and dont realise that those shopowners have more to do then replace broken windows to keep looters out.
What does that have to do with the tractor? It's not like the owners were being prevented from boarding up their shops in waist high water because the tractor was making the water wobble a bit.
@@damionkeeling3103
The farmer damaged property that was undamaged.
""
Paul Birkin, owner of the Crow Inn pub, said: "Nothing would have happened to the pub if it wasn't for the tractor. There wasn't a drop of water in here until he drove through. The locked front doors of the pub were pushed open and smashed, along with the windows next to it, with the wave of water knocking sandbags across the room.""
From Gloucester Live. You should read the article on the 27 Nov.
@@johnclements6614 NOT the farmers fault, the pub owner should have secured his doors better
@@petem68 I bet you would not say that if someone smashed your doors in.
Pub doors are not flimsy.
_The flood was innocent_
Wonder who they all voted for?
Do you really have to ask? it's pretty obvious.
A couple of busted windows is nothing compared to the insurance costs in putting these shops and houses back into a useable condition,added to the fact that the driver already offered to get his insurers involved regarding any further damage he caused,buildings and material things can be replaced,humans cannot.
These shops can not get flood cover.
MARVELLOUS HOW SIR MARK ROWLEY GETS OF FOR CRIMINAL DAMAGE. .
the only vehicle still moving and everyone is loosing their minds and want to report.
You obviously haven’t heard his side of the story
So the water didn't do any damage its raining tractors
No farmers no f(l) ood.Just when they were winning people's hearts.
You can tell this is one of those guys who films everything and complains! "Look at the wake", what a sap! 😂
No he's just a local business owner who shop door just got blown in from the wake... He pays taxes but the farmer dodges them.
Yep, probably a millionaire himself if they live there.
@@Moscow_Will_Burncomrade we meet again 😂
@@Moscow_Will_Burn And you leech off taxes by being a paid shill.
@@MattyEngland Many of the people who live there are not rich. Business rents are relatively cheap because of frequent flooding.
Criminal damage??? He's doing everyone a huge favour there..get the maximum off the insurance companies. A months wages says we'll hear of a story with one insurer not paying out!
Part of the money will be from his insurance. His premiums will be going up a lot.
Here in the UK aluminium is okay so long as it's over 16mm² [i think that's 6 AWG your side of the pond].
The issue with aluminium isn't so much bi-metalic galvanic corrosion - a well made joint can manage this. The issue is that aluminium isn't anywhere near as ductile as copper and therefore is more likely to fracture. So fine for distribution but not acceptable for final circuits to domestic and commercial loads.
These melts that film and complain about everything,,, remember the guy who used to cycle around London filming people using their phone whilst driving then report them to the police,,,, got ran over 😱😂🤣
Is that the same one that used to stand at a traffic light (with his bike propped up) and stop cars trying to 'sneak through' ?
@7th.trumpet Not sure about that ,,, guy I mentioned was everywhere, made it his mission to film and report
@@7th.trumpet cyclingmikey and he's still doing it
Fake news. He hasn’t been run over. Don’t make up 💩 to back up your nonsense.
On the plus side the farmer has been arrested and the judge will force him to pay the £100,000+ worth of damage to properties and businesses. If he doesn't pay up he'll lose his farm and livelihood. Oh I just remembered. He'll lose his driving licence too. So no mare jolly joy rides for him. I wonder if the buses run near his farm?
Someone's pulling some strings to try and give farmers a bad name...........
But then I've always been a bit of a conspiracy realist, sorry, theorist 🧐
Yeah right. Sit this one out mate, go and watch GBN and yell at your telly.
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When did it become illegal to drive down the street ? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
He is sending a message, he doesn't want Keir Starmer in downing street.🤣
When the vehicle is causing property damage
@@connorwood9211 by that logic the local govenment should all also be convicted as theres clearly not enough drainage in the area they are all causing property damage.
@@connorwood9211 TO BE PROVEN
@@connorwood9211 HOW ABOUT THE INVIRONMENTAL AGENCIES. ARE YOU GOING TO MOAN ABOUT THEM . I DON'T THINK YOU WILL .
No farmers , no food , he must have been on his way back from London protests 😂
Farmer angry about tax on his £3 million fortune. (which Labour proposes to tax at LOWER rate than for anyone else ). Playing in his £200k brand new tax deductible tractor ... their accountants tell them to keep buying new ones as often as they can to dodge tax. Can't make farmers happy ... they grab fortunes from EU subsidies ..then vote against EU. They vote for Brexit and the disaster Tory aussie trade deal which shafts farmers. Now they want special treatment !!
(yes I know they work hard but so do lots of people especially near the bottom of the wage pile who don't get £3 million+ to give to their kids )
How did the camera man know the exact moment it was coming round the corner,and start moaning immediately. Obviously a psyop to make farmers look bad. We love the farmers,keep up your great work. 50,000 views,and 200 Likes,tells me a few folk are disliking this video. Lolz.
The farmer had admitted he did some thing stupid and has passed it to his insurance company.
When he passed and you saw his head side on looking at his ears, if you look closely, you see the chocolates for sale in the shop at the other side .
There is nothing like a drive through😊
What's the problem?
House next to house, lots of cars.......all is too crowded; this is not natural. We people should get closer to nature. Floods do not affect so much beings that live close to nature
Hate to tell you this. BUT within a 100 yards of this is a field with livestock. It is a rural town.
Well done farmer I would of done the same to save a child no matter what cost an damage, you people are gonna claim anyway from the flood stop complaining ffs and start apologising to the farmer
Probably on his phone, probably drunk. I see it every day.
In the mirror? Or your wife?
This clown hasn't done the farmers cause any good
If this changes your opinion then you must be pretty fickle.
that’s why the press are making this into a bigger thing than it is. the press works in coordination with the government.
He's no idiot
And these guys want a tax break
Don't be an idiot.
What was the idiot doing anyway?! He reminds me of "caravan enthusiasts" who cause trouble & damage for no benefit. I saw some "keys to a pie" on trail bikes just deliberately holding their bikes while spinning the rear wheel, spraying mud from a grassy area onto the road & pavement nearby...which made it slippy & difficult for old people, mums with prams et al who had to walk on the main road instead. They didn't gain anything apart from knowing that they've made some people's lives more difficult, possibly endangering them too & irritated people they don't even know. In fact, not only didn't they benefit at all from this but they must've made themselves & their bikes filthy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Farmers work farmers use tractors you are the idiot
That poor, poor farmer, in his outdated and antiquated tractor, which definitely doesn't cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, expressing his concern for all the local villagers in their time of hardship (like they do while 'looking after' the countryside).
And that's the sort of person I'm supposed to sympathise with as they continue to avoid paying tax?
Save it
Don’t worry , when all the land labour grabs , has HMSO housing on it that should cheer you up . Sounds like you voted Labour ,. And all the millions tax payers money Labour have been given to foreign Farmers . Make you feel better too .:
@@GrantCoppin-Brown Yeah, all those foreign farmers, coming over here and stealing all our farmland but at the same time being given billions of pounds in free money, beause that makes complete sense, in a non-fiction kind of way.
You get all that info from the Daily Mail did you? 😂😂
We have to pay those tools to get out of bed. And pay for their tractors.
One farmer and all of a sudden the hyena’s come out in packs. Just secretly loving it, to pile more misery on the community. Politics of envy never end well.