Pixeing & a game of chicken at t’peat works

On Sun­day the 12th August, about 15 peo­ple vis­it­ed the peat works unan­nounced, find­ing it almost desert­ed and wan­der­ing around for about 15 min­utes before find­ing any work­ers.

Dur­ing this time, all the keys from the key safe and igni­tion keys for most of the machines dis­ap­peared and end­ed up at the bot­tom of drains and the engine of one of the two peat-mov­ing trains got sand in the petrol tank.

After com­ing across work­ers and real­is­ing the police had been called, we decid­ed to head off across the moor in an attempt to get away.

How­ev­er the police used their heli­copter to try and head us off, bring­ing it about 6 feet off the ground in front of us and engag­ing in a game of chick­en. How­ev­er we pressed on regard­less and the police chick­ened out first, but not before police on foot had caught up with some of the group and escort­ed them off site after tak­ing anoth­er set of details. They then set off with the heli­copter and dogs to find the rest of the group who man­aged to hide and escape from the moors with­out being spot­ted.