Posted on 08/10/2007 4:00:32 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German farmer angry with police for trying to confiscate his tractor wrecked three patrol cars and evaded capture for seven hours before an elite unit managed to arrest him, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
The farmer, 53, was pulled over by police for driving his tractor without a license, despite several previous warnings.
The officers called in three patrol cars for help before asking the farmer to get out of his vehicle.
He refused, and proceeded to ram the cars with his tractor, making full use of its attached muck spreader and hydraulic fork. Officers were only just able to scramble out of harm's way.
The farmer then drove into a forest, where he eluded a manhunt involving two helicopters and an armored car for seven hours.
He was finally found by an elite police team in a barn on his farm in Lauterbach, in central Germany.
"In the countryside we're used to people going at police with muck spreaders, but this was something else," a police spokesman said.
The farmer faces charges of assault and resisting police.
"I'm in an elite police unit that arrests farmers with manure spreaders."
Mucking about...
LMAO!! What's up with those Kraut farmers, anyway?
Sure, so elite that they lost a tractor with a manure spreader for 7 hours.
In my best cartoon voice, “Which way did he go? Which way did he go?”
Police should be thankful the farmer didn’t have a potato peeler or chicken plucker attached to the tractor.
Too funny, ROTFLMAO
Yea really!We hardly ever attack the police with a manure spreader in this neck of the woods.
Moral: Never bring a Passat to a Muck Spreader fight.
I’d rather use a combine myself. More maneuverable.
HUH?
My bet is the German bureaucrats were forcing him to buy a license plate for a tractor that rarely used the roads. He didn’t want to pay so the polizei were sent to confiscate the tractor. Which had a manure spreader attached that day
I want one for those threads where the sh!t flingers get out of control. I can bury ‘em up to their necks.
The ol’ “I’m sorry officer — I didn’t see you back there and I guess the PTO slipped on!” defense is what they’re talking about here.
He’s probably doing the same things he’s done all his life but the world has changed around him, requiring him to change, and he doesn’t like it.
“the farmer, 53, was pulled over for driving his tractor without a license.”
Ummm, how did they know he didn’t have a license before pulling him over?
The farmer was heard to exclaim, “Get a load of this....”
when they asked him for his license he said “that’s bulls#!t”
Must have been one of those Panzer KampfMuckspreader Wagens. At least a #IV model. The farmer was just practicing Muckkrieg.
“Muck Da Police” by KWA (Krauts With Attitude)
Futher mucker.
(looking around for a NYT reporter)
Nah,too hard to clean the concave and separator when you’re done.
This is nothing. German gangs are carrying sawed-off “street sweepers.”
Why is it that when you are “amuck” you seem to feel the need to run? You always hear of poeple “running amuck”, can you not “walk amuck” or “sit amuck”?
I always thought it was spelt “amok”.
Do you suppose that machine came from the Schmidt house?
That wouldn’t work as well unless the farmer here was using a mok spreader.
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