News is just coming in of a worrying incident near Hawkley in Hampshire yesterday evening, current details are as follows:
A recreational 4x4 user was shot at by a farmer whilst (quite rightly) turning around in the farmyard after discovering the BOAT he intended to drive had a seasonal TRO on it.
Recently there has been an alarming increase in rural crime across the region, so this all very much sounds like a legitimate person being mistaken by the farmer for a thief.
Tensions could well be running high if the farmer in question has already had ‘unwelcome visitors’ yet it still doesn’t excuse his rather extreme actions.
We would all like to hope that this incident was a 'one off', some of you choose to greenlane at night, so you might wish to bear this incident in mind.