David's Digest

I am so angry I can hardly contain myself. I can only hope blogging about what has just happened relieves some of the stress I am feeling and stops me bursting.
I was driving a tractor and seedbed maker on one of our roadside fields when I noticed a pick-up truck stop in a gateway. I and my tractor were several hundred yards away so the occupants of the vehicle probably discounted any possibility that anyone would see them. As it was I was much too distant to read the registration number.
Anyway, the passenger got out of the pick-up and climbed onto the back. At which point the other occupant slowly drove down the lane. As he did so the one on the back began throwing lumps of what I later discovered were bits of broken concrete, probably the remains of a patio - onto the grass banks on either side of the lane. Altogether there were about twenty of these lumps. The whole episode took only a minute or so.
I headed across the field as fast as I could to try to stop the vehicle. But before I could get there, or even close enough to get the number, they saw me coming and shot away at speed. And I am left with yet another lot of other peoples rubbish to clear up.
It will have to wait until spring drilling is finished - we don't have the time or the manpower to do it earlier.
I am still seething that people, and they must be local, can behave in such an anti social, irresponsible and unenvironmental way. The whole situation is virtually out of control and if I did manage to catch them I would be tempted to take the law into my own hands rather than wait for anything official to happen. But the litter louts are usually clever enough not to get caught. Meanwhile I apologise for blogging on the same subject in such a short time. I will now go and sit in a dark room and try to calm down.