Lord above some people are just... unbelievable!

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There's an Apache MK1 final flypast today [yawn] which DP and DS (autistic, this comes under one of his special interests) have been banging on about for days. They made flasks of cocoa and set up deckchairs in one of our fields (we live on a farm) to sit and watch it. Anyway it was delayed by 45 mins so they came in to eat lunch and then went back out...to find two men sitting on the deckchairs eating sandwiches waiting for the flypast . There was a third man with a dog with them, who actually asked DP to put our dog on a lead because his dog is nervous of other dogs!!

Now, this was in our field which is private land. The field is visible from a footpath but the footpath just goes past the gate and doesn't enter the field. They just saw our deckchairs and though it looked like a nice place to go and sit.

DP said sorry but no, they'd have to take the dog out of the field if it wasn't ok with other dogs, and that he and DS wanted their deckchairs back. A bit of harrumphing and the men left but... WTF?!?

Wouldn’t trust myself to keep the shotgun pointed at the dog - it’s the people I have beef with, not the mutt!

Imagine the AIBU when I’ve chased someone off with the shotgun levelled at their PFB. And that’s before we consider any other consequences!

They sell it in every supermarket!

Same! "Just as DS sunk his teeth into a piece of his steak and kidney pie, they heard the roar of the Apache above. They quickly rushed outside, however all they could see was it getting smaller and smaller as it flew off into the distance" 😂

On a serious note OP - the cheeky sods! There are an awful lot of CFs around these days!

I know of somewhere which was a good photography spot for trainspotters, tolerated by the landowner - who wasn't so happy when he found a bunch of trainspotters had come equipped with saws and felled a group of young trees so they could get a better view.

Ha! That would have been a disaster beyond compare. They did not miss the flypast. Despite not being interested enough to watch it with them, I've now been shown videos of it from two different angles at least 5 times 🤭

"No problem Sir, there is an entrance fee of €50 each, a further €100 seating charge for the deck chairs each and €500 to tie up the dog. I'll know of a tenner if you want to stand or sit on the ground.

Would you like to pay by cash or instant credit transfer?"

Cheeky feckers.

There was one in my village Facebook group the other day complaining that they'd been asked to leave a privately owned field by the farmer. Seemed to think it was the farmer's responsibility to put signs up to explain everywhere where they're not allowed, in addition to the clearly signed public rights of way and associated footpaths. I may put a sign on my driveway yet to stop them using my property as a dog training area too.

I'd say that's unbelievable, but it's not, it's entirely in keeping with how people behave!!

We get similar situations all the time. We have a pond on our land that used to be used for a waterwheel attached to a derelict mill. It’s dangerous to swim there as water flows into it and out of it and there’s a lip under the bank where the water flows out of it. We have so many signs up people couldn’t miss them. Every year we find families set up with picnics, often people swimming in it having climbed fences to get into it. We put up a 6 foot chain link fence a few years ago and someone cut a hole in the fence. Unfortunately it can be seen from the road and we often see families trudging through the fields to get to it.

Don’t get me started about off-lead dogs! Although, DH strolling across a field with a gun normally makes them think twice.

Tourist season is upon us, let the games commence and let the hilarity begin when they think the stags are friendly. There’s nothing funnier than watching them trying to feed the deer, one idiot grabbed a stags antlers a month or so ago and it didn’t end well.

As for the motorhome wild camping tourists, you’d be disgusted where they empty their toilets and the rubbish they leave behind.

FourLeggedBuckers Totally agree the dogs aren't the problem !

I lived somewhere with private gardens for residents use only. In the summer every Tom,Dick and Harry would turn up! Used to drive us crazy especially when it was a bunch of teens messing about!

Absolutely nothing OP! Love a cup of cocoa....😊
Well done to your husband for being assertive enough to see the CF's off ~ like previous posters have said, I was afraid this story was going to end with your DH & DS missing the fly past.

Peter Mayle, who wrote 'A year in Provence', described coming home from the market or something to find four Brits in his sitting room, there to see what his house was like. He said they got very stroppy when asked to leave.

This really doesn't surprise me. We live in a tourist area with a single track lane running by our house. Lots of tourists walk up it. The view for the lane is lovely - out over the valley and on a clear day for miles either way. Our house is elevated from the road. People have absolutely no issue to come up the steps to our property, through our very clearly private gate and stand on our front patio to take photos of the view!

Their cheek astounds me. If I see them I go out and tell them to sod off. One once had the nerve to complain that our dog (who was in our fenced off and gated patio area) had almost knocked her over whilst she was trying to get her photo of the view. My next dog is going to be trained to bite rather than lick people to death!

The cheek of some people is astounding. We once had the women's cycling tour of GB come through our village. My front garden had no fence, the lawn just joined up to the path, and there were several people erected camping chairs on my front garden to sit and watch it. As others have experienced, they were so rude when asked to move.

Takes the cake

Cocoa? Are you living in an Enid Blyton novel!

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I wish

Did you not shout 'Get Orf My Land'?

How much of England's beauty is privately owned?

I missed it despite living right by the airfield they took off from and working from home today. Lots of neighbours posting views from the garden. I’m not that bothered but as I was here I would have liked to have peaked out the window.

I grew up on a farm and remember seeing a group of people having a picnic in a cornfield.

Was it Katie Hopkins?

How much of England's beauty is privately owned?

Depends if you are talking about farm land or people's houses and gardens. But all of England is pretty much owned by someone. A lot of it by foreign businesses. The two biggest owners are the Forestry Commission and the Ministry of Defense. People seem to think they can walk wherever they want - but that's not the case at all.

https://abcfinance.co.uk/blog/who-owns-the-uk/

People can be such twats. I once arrived in my field to find a group of about a dozen ramblers having a picnic. Private property, definitely not a picnic area, but ok. Busied myself poo picking and keeping an eye on things from a distance when one of the ramblers (who obviously hadn't seen me) walloped one of my horses who'd wandered over with one of those walking pole things. BIG mistake!

Only 8% of land in the UK is permitted for public use. I'm thinking that someone sat in your deckchair is a first world / diamond shoes are too tight problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/17/england-public-trespassing-reclaim-our-countryside?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other