A peeved picnicker jumped in front of a giant combine harvester in a potentially deadly protest after accusing the driver of ruining his family meal.
The angry protestor said their sandwiches were covered in dust by the huge vehicle.
Video online titled ‘Dusty Sandwich Man (Combine Harvester Protestor)’ shows the trespasser striding through wheat as the farm machinery approaches.
The clip, posted by Twitter user Berkshire Farm Girl, shows her and her mum racing to the scene in their pickup truck after reports of a man among the crops, before they spotted him with his arms folded in the path of the harvester as it hurtled towards him.
As they approach, the mum can be heard talking to a farm worker from her window as they desperately hunt him down.
She shouts: ‘Oh my God’ as a figure in a red T-shirt and shorts can be seen facing off against the combine, which can weigh up to 100 tonnes.
The mum says: ‘Hello, could you just come over a minute?’
When he ignores her, she goes over to speak to him.
He screams at her: ‘We are just having a family meal and he sprayed our table twice!.. I don’t care what your name is!’
Dubbed a ‘crazy man’ on the mum’s daughter’s social media feed, she said he stormed the field twice after his ‘sandwich was covered in dust’ during harvesting on Saturday.
The Berkshire-based farmer added: ‘Yesterday we had an angry member of the public jump out in front of the combine around the headland because his sandwich was covered in dust.’
It is not clear where the man was enjoying his picnic when his family apparently took a dusting.
Berkshire Farm Girl added: ‘He then came out again and stood in front of the combine. He was so lucky not to have been hit by a vehicle.
‘Thanks mum for de-escalation.’
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