Farmer gets amazing revenge after fly-tipper dumped '2.7 tonnes of waste' on his land
They say revenge is a dish best served cold... and no one knows that better than this farmer who bided his time before dishing it up from the back of a dump truck to get his own back on a fly-tipper.
Stuart Baldwin had grown sick and tired of people using his land as a junkyard, after being targeted by dozens of litter louts. When someone ditched more than 400 tyres on his property, it was the straw that broke the camel's back for Stuart.
The 60-year-old, from Haydock, Merseyside, explained that he decided to turn detective and tracked down the fly-tipper after he caught them red-handed on CCTV footage.
The livestock farmer explained that he had reached his limit with litterbugs after 421 tyres turned up in August 2020, as he claimed he was a victim of illegal dumping about 25 times a year.
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And it doesn't take a genius to work out that's a lot of rubbish he's had to get rid of.
So, can you really blame him for getting a huge truck, loading the hundreds of tyres on it and driving to the culprit's house to dump them on his doorstep?
Stuart took an eye for an eye approach to dealing with the situation after finding out the fly-tipper's identity by hunting him down on Facebook.
After finding out the fella's home address, the farmer gave him three days to clean up his mess - but he didn't use the opportunity to put the issue right.
According to Stuart, this simply left him with no choice but to take matters into his own hands.
Filming himself in front of the heap of rubber on his farm, he said: "Somebody has put these tyres here overnight - luckily, we've found out who has forgotten them. So we're going to take them back to the person who put them here."
Needless to say, 421 tyres were returned to the rightful owner.
Comical footage shows how Stuart and his pals drive a dump truck to the alleged litterbug's home before depositing the rubbish right into his front garden.
Speaking of the reasoning behind his choice of revenge, the farmer told the Daily Mail: "It's tyres and rubbish, you get all sorts. I just thought 'I've had enough of this'. We put a camera up and he came back with some tyres and we just got him.
"He came down and he said he was going to move them so I gave him the benefit of the doubt and a couple of days breathing – but he never moved them.
"I thought he must have forgot so I took them back to remind him."
Fly-tippers can be slapped with a hefty fine and even a custodial sentence, so it's a dangerous game - and as Stuart said, taking your rubbish to a waste disposal centre doesn't cost anything.
He added: "Fly-tipping is horrendous – why should the farmer put up for it? We work the land and scumbags go and tip rubbish on it. I wouldn't mind, but you can take your rubbish to the tip for free.
"I can't see the logic in it, it's downright ignorant to be honest. People in the community have called me a legend and a hero. Hopefully people will think twice now about dumping on our land."
Olivia Burke