Yahoo News 6,000 'maniac' farmers descend on Blackpool and spend £60,000 on kebabs
Over 6,000 'maniac' young farmers sporting mullets descended on Blackpool over the weekend, turning the town into 'chaos'.
Despite covering club floors in sawdust and spending £60,000 on kebabs during their spree, the police had no issue with their antics. The British seaside resort was swamped with more than 6,000 'maniac' young farmers sporting mullets as clubs prepared for the onslaught by covering their floors in sawdust.
The influx of farmers brought chaos and £60,000 to spend on kebabs, but the police stated they had no issue with their antics. The DIY Young Farmers AGM (Annual General Meeting) took over the British seaside resort, letting their questionable hairstyles down and replacing combine harvesters with good craic, the Daily Star reports.
The three-day spree saw farmers from all over the country, even flying in from Ireland, descend on the seaside resort town to enjoy performances from rapping farmer Dpart, YouTuber chats and DJ sets from Ultrabeat. The festivities began at 11am and did not stop until the following morning.
Sam Hargreaves, from Preston, one of the organisers and founder of Tweedl, decided to capture the 'off their head' farmers on camera. The antics have catapulted the event to viral fame.
"Put it this way, if you're Blackpool you would have known they were there," Sam told the Star. "They're lunatics, they're off their head. They're covered in sawdust. There's a video currently going viral of the floor in the nightclub and everyone is thinking it's mud on the floor. But, it's not. All of our venues out of their choice put sawdust down on the floor, which I know sounds barbaric."
"Every morning they put a dusting of sawdust on the floor just to soak up any spillages it's not mud just to set the record straight. A lot of people were saying its cow muck, it's really not."
One video managed to rack up an impressive 1.2million views on TikTok, garnering a lot of attention thanks to an exotic array of mullets on show.
If their appearance didn't raise eyebrows then the raucous behaviour of the young farmers certainly did, with the comments section full of claims the young farmers are badly behaved. The National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs cancelled their annual AGM in 2018 due to previous bad behaviour but Sam insisted that the young farmers were not out to cause chaos.
He added: "Every hotel is booked up, you can't get a taxi and we know there's a takeaway that took £60,000 in kebabs and pizza over the weekend. A ridiculous amount of money is brought into the economy, and they do recognise that. They're crazy people but they're there to have a laugh we have meetings with the councils, meetings with the police and the managers with each place we work with."
"On Sunday night we spoke to the police and we said are you happy and they said 'absolutely, they're maniacs but they're here to have fun not here to cause trouble' and that's the reality of it."
Despite the criticism online for their boozy antics, Sam explained that the annual gathering serves an important purpose.
"Farmers just generally spend a lot of their time on their own whether that be sat on a tractor or out on the farm. So massive gatherings of farmers don't happen, so for us to be able to do that and be a part of it, I feel very special."
