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15/08/2012
Glass Bottles Sprinkled Over Farmer's Field
A farmer's field was strewn with glass bottles "deliberately", the County Down Outlook has reported.
Gordon McBurney of Annalong suffered the attack on 12 acres of his sileage crop, and said that although he has walked through the fields picking up glass, about two acres of grass has been lost to the attack.
Mr McBurney said: "I had animals in one part of the field grazing and when I was in the field, I noticed bottles in it so that alerted me to look in the other fields. When I did, I saw that there was not only empty bottles lying all over the place, but there were bottles that were smashed all over the fields.
"It was like looking for a needle a haystack trying to pick them up.
Mr McBurney says he thinks there were around 200 bottles of beer in total thrown threw "here, there and everywhere".
He said: "There were four fields in total, three on the Grove Road up a lane and another on the Stewarts Road. The fields are not together, they are about a mile apart by road but as the crow flies they would be about 400 or 500 yards apart.
"It is not as if the bottles had just been thrown over the hedge - they were all over and right in the middle of a five acre field.
"No-one would have had any business to be driving up the lane. It is definitely deliberate as far as I can see."
Mr McBurney estimated that the glass attack has lost him £500.
(NE)
Gordon McBurney of Annalong suffered the attack on 12 acres of his sileage crop, and said that although he has walked through the fields picking up glass, about two acres of grass has been lost to the attack.
Mr McBurney said: "I had animals in one part of the field grazing and when I was in the field, I noticed bottles in it so that alerted me to look in the other fields. When I did, I saw that there was not only empty bottles lying all over the place, but there were bottles that were smashed all over the fields.
"It was like looking for a needle a haystack trying to pick them up.
Mr McBurney says he thinks there were around 200 bottles of beer in total thrown threw "here, there and everywhere".
He said: "There were four fields in total, three on the Grove Road up a lane and another on the Stewarts Road. The fields are not together, they are about a mile apart by road but as the crow flies they would be about 400 or 500 yards apart.
"It is not as if the bottles had just been thrown over the hedge - they were all over and right in the middle of a five acre field.
"No-one would have had any business to be driving up the lane. It is definitely deliberate as far as I can see."
Mr McBurney estimated that the glass attack has lost him £500.
(NE)
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