Irate driver leaves farmer stunned with bizarre reaction to cows crossing road

Margaret Lees moves her cows to their pasture doubly a day, each day, betwixt April and October and accidental locals bask the tradition

An irate motorist has blasted a farmer's 60-year-old contented of moving cattle crossed a roadworthy arsenic “inconsiderate” to commuters.

Stunned husbandman Margaret Lees, whose in-laws started Park Farm successful Walmersley, Greater Manchester, successful 1958, moves her cows to their pasture doubly a day, each day, betwixt April and October. And says galore locals emotion seeing her 50-strong dairy herd and their calves walk crossing a roadworthy successful the village.

But past week, the five-minute intermission successful postulation astatine 8.30am caused 1 operator to telephone up her workplace store and outcry astatine her employees. The 53 twelvemonth aged posted astir the incidental connected societal media but says she was “overwhelmed” by enactment from the assemblage and has vowed to proceed the long-held tradition.

Mum-of-four 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."

Along with hubby John, 58, she took implicit the workplace from his parents and present works the workplace with her sons. They accidental locals person 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. “ut 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."

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.”