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Toilet_sign.pngCyclist’s naked toilet stop in field drives Yorkshire farmer potty
A farmer in Yorkshire who found a naked cyclist defecating in his field says that riders tackling the route of the Tour de France should ensure they use proper toilets and not the countryside.
According to the Westmoreland Gazzette, when the farmer confronted the cyclist, who had stripped off his Lycra clothing prior to going about his business, the man promised to come back and clean up his mess, but has failed to do so.
The newspaper says that details of the incident, which happened in Wensleydale, were first revealed on Facebook by the farmer’s wife, who said:
This morning we watched a man on a cycle race come into our field, strip completely naked and use our field as a toilet. Leaving the evidence together with the paper!
Kids thought funny and can't wait to tell everyone at school tomorrow. My husband didn't find it quite as funny as it is in a field he is about to silage.
My husband went and spoke to the bloke and apparently he is coming back later to clean it up. We are very excited about the race but can the people using the route not spoil it and please find REAL toilets. Rant over.
The farmer subsequently said that he had seen something unusual in the field and used binoculars to get a better look.
"There was a man naked after taking his one-piece Lycra suit off squatting down and doing his business,” he recalled.
"I went down and had a word with him. First of all he denied it but I thought: 'You cheeky sod - we've just seen you'.
"He said he was going to come back and clean it up. I took a photo of him - he'd got dressed by then - and told him that I'll pass it to the police and let them sort it out if he doesn't come back.
"I think the chance of him coming back is pretty slim though," he added.
The farmer revealed that to add insult to injury, the spot the cyclist had chosen for his makeshift latrine was the very one from where he and his family planned to watch the Tour de France pass by. He said they would now find another vantage point.
It’s not the first toilet-themed controversy we’ve covered this year. In April, UK Cycling Events, which organises the Wiggle New Forest Spring Sportive and other events in the national park, said it would ban 18 riders from its events for breaking rules including urinating by the roadside rather than in the portable toilets it provides.
The previous month, five junior cyclists participating in a race in Belgium received fines for urinating on the Menin Gate in Ypres, a memorial to British, Irish and Commonwealth casualties of World War One.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Oh, I appreciate fully that there are far, far, worse facilities to use, however I doubt in a developing country you got to witness the utterly absurd image of Mr Ratty crawling over a shining white iPhone (or even some whining shite's iPhone) amongst all the jobby. It's more the juxtaposition of all the items that people nowadays hold so very dear like phones cash, drugs etc in a huge pit of effluent.
Go on, what had he dropped/lost?
A mate of mine fell in them at Glastonbury one year!
I have made contact to see if we can acquire the picture to shame the cyclist into an apology
That's effing disgusting - he should do what surfers do and soil his skinsuit.
Or carry a ziplock bag, especially if he took time to carry bog roll
When I go hill walking and end up staying out overnight I carry a zip lock bag with me and carry the stuff off the hills with me as you are meant to do. There are some popular routes around the country that have human waste left and it's totally gross.
Of course the easiest solution is to have a dump before you leave for your ride.
Just in case anyone now has a mental image of someone trying to poo into a sandwich bag, you can buy specific odour resistant and erm... absorbent bags for the purpose.
They tend to be popular with festival goers, which is easy to understand if you've ever seen the bogs at Glastonbury.
Yep, not always possible to avoid having to take a dump but it isn't that hard to be prepared as I was always taught in the scouts. He could've gone behind a bush and saved the farmer an unfortunate sight too. Farmer Giles has every right to be annoyed in this case.
Maybe he was called Ted and was just trying to sort out the drainage in the lower field?
I see an unfulfilled market for bungs ... preferably carbon for the serious cyclist.
Hang on... "together with the paper"!
You mean he planned ahead for this little accident?
Some people just don't get it. Obviously not a New Forest rider or road.cc user.
He was lucky he wasn't shot for 'scaring the sheep'.
well that's a little less silage required in that area of the field.
Silage is hay or some such moist fodder for cattle they store for winter.
I think you're confusing it with slurry. You don't feed cows poo.
Thanks for clearing that up. Cows shouldn't be eating poo
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