Earth First! Action Update
Archive of the Earth First! Action Update – the newsletter of the UK EF! network 1991-2012
EFAU 50 - August 1998Back to list of articles in this issue

Barn Bungle

Undercover cops who'd set up a secret camera in a Tayside farm's barn and parked up in their unmarked car, hoping to catch some of the Scottish folk who are decontaminating their country by removing genetics test crops, had to run for their lives when the car exhaust set the barn on fire. Both the barn and the car were destroyed, and the damage is estimated to be well into the thousands... a police spokesman is quoted as saying, "Everyone is laughing their socks off." Except the farmer, who may well have decided he's had enough of his test crop even before any activists turn up!