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Scots farmer saves home from floods after building wall of dung across front gate
Tommy Cannon, 38, concocted a rather unconventional plan after his home in Dumfries faced being flooded out.
A Scots farm worker who 'saved his house from flooding' by building a wall of animal dung across his driveway has been blasted for potentially contaminating local water.
Tommy Cannon decided to improvise when heavy rain caused a stream to burst its banks and send water gushing down his street near Dumfries last week.
The 38-year-old claims he couldn't drive to town for sandbags so at around midday he used manure from work to 'save his home from being flooded'.
A viral video shows a digger dropping piles of brown fertiliser across his driveway as he laughs and says 'you know you're a farmer when you're using dung as a flood defence'.
Many Facebook users praised his 'quick thinking' and said the act was a 'no-brainer' given that 'sometimes emergencies call for desperate measures'.
However other users said they were surprised environment chiefs haven't paid him a visit as they feared his ponging barricade could have contaminated local water.
One enraged farmer, known as Dan, branded him 'thick' and blamed actions like Tommy's for the 'red tape' around spreading manure on fields.
Tommy hit back joking 'if you had brains you'd be dangerous' before sharing a video of his flooded driveway, back garden and the fields behind to show how bad the situation had become.
He's since explained he 'did what he had to do' after his area faced four inches of rain in 12 hours and claims he cleaned everything up by 10.30am the next morning.
Tommy's video has earned more than 300 reactions and 50 comments in four days and the following day he posted a photo of his clear drive, which appears to mock his opponents' outrage.
The farmer declares the dung is back in storage and his drive has been washed before asking if there's anything else disgruntled farmer Dan would like him to do.
The Scottish Government's Water Environment Regulations prohibit fertiliser such as dung from being stored or applied to 'waterlogged' land.
Tommy said: "It was what I had to do to save my house. It was the only thing I had to block the road. It wasn't possible to get to town by the road so I couldn't get sandbags.
"A stream had burst its banks and it was coming down the road like a river. I was worried about my house getting flooded.
"It's stored in areas with proper drainage on the farm so it took us five minutes to get it. You can see from the picture from the next day that I cleaned everything up.
"We had a really heavy downpour and within an hour I could see water swelling up around my house and my garage started to flood. If I hadn't done this my house would definitely have flooded.
"I realise there's a lot of people who will say it's irresponsible, but with the amount of water going down the road it would have been well diluted and nobody would notice a thing."
Tommy says the rain died off throughout the day but the water continued to flow down his road until New Year's Eve morning when he cleaned up.
The agricultural contractor was pleased the majority of comments were supportive of his improvisation and brushed off Dan's criticism as 'his problem'.
His post simply reads 'drastic times call for drastic measures. It worked though'.
One commented: "Wow, needs must. I would rather have this on my driveway than the house flooded. No-brainer really. Good job."
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