Driver leaves farmers stunned with bizarre reaction to cows crossing road

Margaret Lees lives astatine the workplace extracurricular Manchester (Image: Getty)

A husbandman was near stunned erstwhile an irate motorist blasted their 60-year-old contented of moving cattle crossed a roadworthy arsenic “inconsiderate” to commuters.

Margaret Lees, 53, whose in-laws started Park Farm successful Walmersley, Gtr Manchester, successful 1958, moves her cows to their pasture doubly a time betwixt April and October.

And she said galore locals loved seeing her 50-strong dairy herd and their calves walk 5 minutes crossing Manchester Road successful the village.

But past week, the little intermission successful postulation astatine 8.30am caused 1 operator to telephone up her workplace store and rage astatine her employees astir the agrarian practice.

After she posted astir the incidental connected societal media, she was “overwhelmed” by enactment from her assemblage – and vowed to support up the long-standing tradition.

Margaret said: “We person been overwhelmed by the public’s response, and the enactment from the assemblage has been immense. It’s not what we expected.

“At the extremity of the day, it’s our enactment arsenic good and the cow's work.

"They’re going to graze successful the tract – and if you wanted to debar them, conscionable get disconnected a spot earlier."

Mum of 4 Margaret and her hubby John, 58, took implicit the workplace from his parents - with her sons present besides moving connected the estate.

And she said locals had go accustomed to them striding retired into the roadworthy with a instrumentality astatine 8.30am and 4.30pm each time to halt postulation and determination their herd.

So they were amazed by the aggravated absorption they received from the grumbling motorist past Tuesday aft their greeting crossing.

Margaret said: “We question the postulation down, the postulation stops, the cows spell down the road, and they locomotion up to the workplace store and into the field.

"The main roadworthy comes done the farm, truthful it’s a tricky task connected the champion of days.

“But a batch of the residents successful Ramsbottom cognize that this is going to hap due to the fact that it’s a regular thing.

“This peculiar morning, it mustn’t person suited this guy, and helium fundamentally took retired his vexation connected a woman successful the store who conscionable answered the phone.

“He fundamentally said that it’s 'inconsiderate of us' crossing the cows implicit erstwhile its unreserved hr and radical are 'trying to get to work.’"

Margaret said her unit and household had not been enactment disconnected by the disapproval and she said the age-old contented would continue.

She added: “Most radical know, and instrumentality photos of them going across, and it’s a contented that’s been happening for the past 60 years.

“My father-in-law started the workplace backmost successful 1958, and we’ve delivered cows and milked cows since then, basically.

“We privation to support connected the contented of farming and producing beverage arsenic agelong arsenic we can.”