I live next to Glastonbury and it’s utter HELL – everyone gets free tickets except me… now I’m getting my revenge
A BELEAGUERED farmer has slammed Glastonbury Festival after suffering “three weeks of hell”.
Paul Chant, 61, was left so furious over the site a mile-and-a-half away from his home at Piltown Farm he erected a terrifying scene to shock the thousands of motorists passing by this week.
Photographs show the pretend corpse, made out to look like a police officer, posed slumped over a barrel with a bloody axe next to it.
A banner Paul hung up next to the scene reads “Pedo drugs fest”.
Paul told The Sun: “Glastonbury Festival has destroyed this community. It’s been ripped apart. We wanted to have our say. We’re shut up. We can’t say a thing.”
Some 200,000 festival goers clogged up roads as they made their way to Worthy Farm this week.
Drivers stuck in the slow-moving queues of traffic on the A361 stared in disbelief at the creation, which displayed a bloodied police officer’s hat in front of a banner saying ‘PIG COW KILLER’.
Mr Chant said he had battled against the police and other authorities over Glastonbury and various other issues.
He told how his macabre scene referenced cops attempts to stop a cow on the loose in Feltham, Surrey, earlier this month by ramming it with their car.
A patrol vehicle purposely drove at the 10-month old cow, named Beau Lucy.
The tactics in stopping the cow were described by Home Secretary James Cleverly as “heavy handed”.
Surrey Police said they could only stop her by using a police car.
Mr Chant said this year’s protest outside his farm was just the latest in a series he had made in recent years, after he fell out with festival founder Michael Eavis about eight years ago.
With cars crawling past his farm and helicopters flying overhead, as the festival began to get into full swing, he said: “This year has been terrible. The last three weeks have been hell. The pollution is just phenomenal.”
He claimed fumes from generators at the festival site had been blown his way by the wind and made it difficult to breathe at times.
Mr Chant, who keeps mostly sheep and horses on his land, said festival-related road closures made it impossible to reach his animals.
He also claimed people he believed were connected to the world famous event had been running across fields on his farm over the last three years.
He slammed Worthy Farm for allowing animals displaced by the festival to graze on his land.
And he was left fuming when he missed out on free tickets offered to locals, despite others getting them.
He said the event had split the community.
“It’s destroyed it and ripped it apart,” he said. “It was about love, peeve and helping the community. Now it just takes. There’s too much greed going on.”
He’s not the only local with an axe to grind.
This year has been terrible. The last three weeks have been hell. The pollution is just phenomenal
Paul Chant
Melanie Peck, who lives around 10 miles from the festival site in Keinton Mandeville, was locked in by heavy traffic.
She said: “We couldn’t get out of the roads to places like Bath and Wells. We live on a local road.”
Temperatures soared as thousands queued up to enter the festival site on Wednesday.
Ollie Howarth, 30, at the front of the Glasto queue, said: “We got the 4am coach from Bristol to be here.”
Motorists headed to the festival were warned to ignore their sat-navs and follow official signs to Glastonbury Festival to prevent gridlocked roads.
A spokesperson for RAC Breakdown said: “It’s far better to follow the official directional signs to get to the right car park.
“You don’t want to end up at the wrong entrance – this creates more delays for everyone and is a sure-fire way of arriving at anything but the ‘Speed of Sound’.”
The Sun has approached Glastonbury Festival for comment.
