Thread: 4wd to Forbes Hut - Clarence River

Originally Posted by oraki

@Sidney. All the time I’ve seen your handle pop up, it seems you’re anti rural, or just anti (insert appropriate issue)
I’ll take a page out of your book, and make a wild assumption and make it a fact. You were jilted at the alter by a rich farmers solo daughter and been anti farmer since.
We banged heads in the other pub many moons ago. You were spouting BS about a subject with quotes and your own opinion. I bantered for abit, and many times had quotes which totally contradicted your “facts”. Before I posted, I remembered a saying my late grandfather used to say, and then deleted the posts.

Never argue with idiots, they’ll only drag you down to their level.

When money changes hands for a service or any such thing, a contract is entered, and a whole new set of rules and regs come into play.
While the farmer may technically be in the right, if something happens, someone’s arse is going to get nailed. The crown have a much bigger piggy bank than the average person, so right or wrong they normally win.
The property we recently sold had a creek running through it. We had a number of people walking across private property and doing whatever they did in amongst the trees at all hours of the day and night. I asked Worksafe what are the consequences if something happened, even though they were trespassing. I was liable, so should put a big fence up to stop them. A word with my lawyer about it and he said off the record if I found anyone there dispose of the body or remove from property.
Another quote from my grandfather which is probably appropriate here as well.

When discussing something you’re not 100% sure about, it’s better to keep mouth shut, and be thought an idiot.
Rather than opening it and proving it beyond doubt.

The idiots are coming out...

The existence of a contract does not change the normal nature of work for a workplace farm or not. The normal nature of work for a farm is not to recieve income for grant permission to access.

I don't spend anytime in pubs mate, so never talked to you and unlikely to given I don't bother with idiots who can't read or understand...

Your advice was substandard, not comprehensive and no-one in this country has been prosecuted in this country for granting recreational access, fee or not.

Worksafe are the last people to ask for opinions, tantamount to asking police for their interpretation of firearms law.