DON’T YOU HATE when you’re just trying to round up your ewes and you get caught in a high-speed car chase? Same.

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The Farmer’s Journal reports that on Valentine’s Day, Larry Fay from Drumconrath, Co Meath was bringing in his ewes for feeding, parking his tractor and trailer in the middle of a quiet road for convenience.

Suddenly, he saw a van speeding up the road with a squad car on its heels – unable to pass Fay’s tractor and trailer, the driver of the van was forced to stop and make a run for it.

However, Fay told the Farmer’s Journal that the runaway driver couldn’t hack the Irish countryside:

He ran through the sheep, jumped out of the pen and ran off up the hill. It’s a fairly steep hill and he wasn’t the fittest so he wasn’t going anywhere fast.

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He then pretty much convinced the man to give up the ghost:

The guards were shouting at him to give up, that they knew who he was. I said to him that he may get it over with that day.

Amazing. The Gardaí took the man away, and thanked Fay for helping out – but he wasn’t best pleased about the turn of events.

“I was trying to save time by parking on the road but I ended up being there for hours,” he said.

Embrace your hero status, Mr Fay.

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