Keep Out?

Another news item about cattle and walkers and footpaths. This is the case of the Sussex police inspector.

The compensation he gained in an out-of-court settlement was £10,000. I suppose that would not go far if his disablement was permanent. Even so a number of people in the Comments speak of the 'compensation culture' and others are dismissive in other ways. Some, though, mention dangerous incidents they have been involved in themselves.

Another aspect to this is the strong suspicion that certain farmers don’t like walkers going across ‘their’ land and discourage people by putting cattle in the field in question even though this would not be their first choice of grazing land. Difficult things to prove of course, but those of us who’ve walked in the country for many years have had little doubt that this happens sometimes even with bulls being used.