Video: Big Bo Peep has lost his sheep – and it’s the cyclist’s fault (+ swearing)

Rural police go native?..
pretty sure that neighbouring farmers would recognise anyone in their farming community...could be mean and suggest the violent response suggests the guy is already known but it's only a cyclist and nobody got hurt..take that away and reasonable for police to spend how long? Less than hour asking other local farmers to identify
...small world
...way forward? Presume have a Police and Crime Commisioner ...start there on the inadequate effort...looking forward to the farmer who failed to identify his employee/ relative/mate being prosecuted for perverting the course of justice ...here is hoping

He looks a bit older in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QENzkzKshpQ

...but he's definitely a farmer, and he has got form!

What I really don't understand is that the sheep seem to have been coming towards the rider and the dogs and quad bike riders have failed to get them to turn left into the farm. So very difficult to see how Neil is anything to do with it. And the reaction from the other party is at least threatening behaviour, and the police have a duty to do more than a perfunctory investigation. The gent appears to have lost control of more than just some sheep and might be dangerous in other circumstances.

As regards points of view, I welcome a challenge to my assumptions and notice that many long-term contributors to these threads are quite willing to say when they think a cyclist has got it wrong. I also know that in an analysis of dodgy cycling moments, some of my stupidities would look pretty bad - in particular I apologise to the Audi driver who must've had a bit of a fright when I emerged from a side road last Wednesday not having checked carefully enough that the road was clear.

Sometimes, perhaps not often enough, I've also seen people here apologise for having got things wrong, put points over-assertively, and so on. So it's not really a closed bubble outrage group for a corral of defensive folks, but more (usually) a place for mature conversations, the giving of help and some razor sharp wit. We'd probably benefit from some agreement to disagree on a few topics, but by and large we are ok.

SocratiCyclist, you do not seem to be persuading many here to change their opinions. This may stem from an apparent reluctance to see anything from any other than a "motorist good, cyclist bad" viewpoint. I wondered when you began posting if your user name indicated that you would use the Socratic Method to make your points. Perhaps it would be more effective if you did.

Does anyone believe that the farmer was telling the truth when they said that they didn't know the identityof Mr Quad Bike?

Neil, hope you're okay. What a complete cock womble. This is anti cycle hatred, there's no rational reason for that response. I believe this is one more example of a growing trend. A friend and I were out on a ride yesterday and ended up getting close passed, brake checked and threatened with violence for being 2 abreast (we weren't, not that that matters). This was by a gentleman with his wife and kids in the car. Apparently we were arrogant and needed to show respect. Sorry Neil, I've kind of hijacked your story, but my point is that a minority of drivers feel emboldened to make these kinds of threats, and carry them out. Lack of action by the police is shameful and will only exacerbate an existing problem.

If the Police Officer has said she's closing the investigation you should make an official complaint and keep doing so 'till they investigate properly.

I'm confused. I feel I have been watching a scene from The Day Today.

Since when do you have to know the name of someone for the police to continue an investigation.

Surely part of the investigation would be to try and find out the name?

Oddly the subtitles on the YouTube clip was set to Portugese and I couldn't seem to change it.  Made it even more surreal.

So its the cyclists fault that the sheep ran away before he even reached them? Hmm... Sheep that can see the future, eh? Bit scary.

I'm more and more coming round to Nick Freeman's identity tabard idea and making them mandatory for farmers.

Knowing this area because of cycle racing. Tour of the Res happens just down the road, that's right before Muggleswick parish hall. I'd suggest emailing them, they'll know who's working in the area. It isn't a highly populated place. Same with the church ministry. Good luck

 http://www.countydurhamfamilies.info/kb5/durham/fsd/organisation.page?id...
https://www.muggleswickparish.org.uk/contact-us/

So if he'd filmed a murder with a clear view of the murderer, the Police would instantly close the case due to the lack of a named suspect? 

Looks like the same guy who smashed a certain Bentley wing mirror.

All joking aside, this is getting ridiculous.  Not only do cyclists cause all the congestion and pollution, we frighten the sheep.  This has to stop, and we need the police and courts to step up their actions against people who attack us.

This must have been quite frightening Neil, and I'm glad you survived to tell the tale.  Perhaps you could have called the police once you'd ridden a few hundred metres down the road.

When will attacking a cyclist be recognised as a hate crime?!