A farmer has been left with a profanity-ridden letter and a damaged fence after investigating how his calves escaped the field.
Young farmer Richard Felce had noticed that his calves had left their field. Upon investigating, he came across a fence which had purposely been cut open.
Beside the fence lay a letter full of expletives, with one part saying: "Enjoy the chase you ****."
Mr Felce suspects that the fence had been purposely cut in the last 2 days, anytime from midday Monday (30 October) to Tuesday morning (31 October).
He said he has not had any trouble with any walkers who pass his field recently.
Regardless, he took to social media to show the letter, tweeting: "Ever wondered why farmers are perennially grumpy? Have a read of what I found when investigating how some calves got out this morning..."
Mr Felce told FarmingUK: "We can only assume it was someone who we have previously pointed out to them that they can only walk on the footpath in the neighbouring field, where we often have walkers. But from what we can recall we haven't had any nasty confrontation."
"In the letter he said that he had been given permission by the "old man who used to drive WHEAT" this is referring to my great Uncle who had the plates "WHEAT" on his land-rover.
"But I'm sure this is made up as we didn't own the field in question when my great uncle was still on the roads up this way and they don't even know his name.
"I expect they just cited his permission as he is a well known figure in the area, and I personally know the very few people he had ever give permission to and I'm sure its none of them."
Mr Felce then left a polite note in the place of where the unknown walker's note had been left.
"I personally feel it is a waste of time to contact the police as many people have been calling for, without a suspect there is nothing they can do and will only result in more of my time taken up on this issue with no favourable outcome."
Mr Felce said he is not shocked by the situation because as a farmer he is used to this "sort of behaviour".
"They don't usually leave such lovely notes," Mr Felce said, "which is why I thought it was worth sharing."
