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Title: Am I missing something here?
Post by: Grumpmeister on January 25, 2008, 01:54:19 PM
I thought that this was a standard lousy farmer story until I saw the last line. Surely if he was banned from leeping livestock for life back in 1999 then he shouldnt have been able to keep sheep in the first place.  rubschin:

Darwin, you seem to be our resident agricultural expert. Any ideas?

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A Cornish farmer, once jailed for plunging an animal welfare officer into a slurry pit, has been jailed for six months for mistreating his animals.
Roger Baker, 63, from Ventongimps, near Truro, was convicted of two offences of cruelty to sheep in a case brought by Cornwall Trading Standards.

He was sentenced at Truro Magistrates Court on Friday.

Baker has numerous previous convictions on animal health issues over the past 30 years.

Both of the latest offences related to "unnecessary suffering of sheep which were not given prompt, effective treatment for conditions they were suffering with".

In 2004 he was jailed for two years for plunging an animal health inspector and a vet into a slurry pit on his land the previous year.

In 1999, he was jailed for five-and-a-half months for abusing dozens of animals and was banned for life from keeping livestock.
Title: Re: Am I missing something here?
Post by: Barman on January 25, 2008, 02:00:27 PM
‘Life’ doesn’t mean life any more in the justice system…

Hung him!  cussing:
Title: Re: Am I missing something here?
Post by: Grumpmeister on January 25, 2008, 02:06:13 PM
To be honest BM I'd be considering a more appropriate punishment considering his past actions.


Dump him in a slurry pit up to his ankles.......















.....Head first.    cussing:
Title: Re: Am I missing something here?
Post by: Barman on January 25, 2008, 02:11:12 PM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on January 25, 2008, 02:06:13 PM
To be honest BM I'd be considering a more appropriate punishment considering his past actions.


Dump him in a slurry pit up to his ankles.......

.....Head first.    cussing:

And then hanged him?  rubschin:
Title: Re: Am I missing something here?
Post by: Grumpmeister on January 25, 2008, 02:15:02 PM
Trust me, after being dumped head first into slurry he'd welcome being hanged, after all this is what he'd be suspended in in:

'A form of manure composed mainly of liquids. Slurry is collected and stored on many farms, especially when large numbers of animals are kept in factory units (see factory farming). When slurry tanks are accidentally or deliberately breached, large amounts can spill into rivers, killing fish and causing eutrophication. Some slurry is spread on fields as a fertilizer. '

 sick2:
Title: Re: Am I missing something here?
Post by: Snoopy on January 25, 2008, 02:36:27 PM
TBH I would have thought a "Ban for Life" would mean exactly that. No point in saying it otherwise.
Title: Re: Am I missing something here?
Post by: Grumpmeister on January 25, 2008, 02:37:42 PM
Thats what I figured Snoops, I was ondering if sheep came under a different category although I cant see it.