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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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It was OK for the nation's darling Paula Radcliffe to curl one off on live TV, what's wrong with a chap trying to do one in private?
If you spend your time outside then at some point you're likely to need to take a shit outside. The first rule in this situation is BE DISCREET!!! The secong rule is make sure you have something to wipe with. The third rule is BE DISCREET!!!
What a plonker.
And that goes for Paula Radcliffe as well.
Maybe once done, you could dangle the bag from the handlebars in full view until you find a bin?!
That's nothing, try using an old and not very long drop in a developing country where you can see the rat holes all around the entrance and when you look down, there's Mr Ratty twitching his shit covered whiskers.
A mate of mine fell in them at Glastonbury one year!
Whether you've been before you go out or not, the urge can come on quickly and then you've no choice. Public conveniences are not that easy to find in the middle of nowhere. I've had to go in many a bush over the years.
Well it seem perfectly acceptable to allow doggy to crap all over my front garden and leave it. Or to leave bags on hanging in trees or the new one around my place is to leave the bag on top of other people's wheelie bins, not inside but on top. Maybe this is just an extension of that "I'm all right Jack, sod the rest of you" mentality?
Couldn't agree more.
Especially as I recently spent a very unpleasant 15 minutes or so clearing dog shit from my mother in laws front garden.
I was tempted to put up a sign offering to go around the owners houses and taking a dump on their sofas. I came to the conclusion that the dog owners probably wouldn't notice.
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?
I take it that the farmer (like all good farmers) cleans the shite off the roads after his tractors and animals have made a mess of them.
Fairly sure they kill leftie badgers too.
One of the first drafts of Woodie Guthrie's guitar sticker?
How far was the offending turd from the nearest public convenience. Perhaps the phantom crapper was trying his best to reach them but couldn't hold it in and in his haste the field was the lesser of two evils.
I always carry tissues...
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