Mr. Bove was a little-known farmer and union official until last August, when he and the nine other men took a tractor, pick axes and power saws to the local McDonald's.
Elsewhere looters drove tractors, pick- up trucks and trailers, and even a large bus, up to a villa belonging to Tariq Aziz, Saddam's deputy prime minister, stealing everything from paintings to curtains, and even stripping the electrical wires from the main switchboard.
Details 11 December, adults £15 (0844 939 0015; boxoffice.yorkminster.org) At Fillingham Christmas Trees, eight miles north of Lincoln, take a ride around the plantation on a tractor and pick your own tree, which will then be harvested for you to take home whenever you wish.
A farmer whose arm was torn off in a tractor accident in Harrison picked up the limb, climbed back on the tractor and headed home to get help.
Tractor-trailer trucks were picked up like toys and hurled hundreds of yards.
Some years ago, a young tractor-trailer driver, new in his job, picked up a load in Minnesota bound for New York City.
He moved to Indianola, picked cotton and worked as a tractor driver on another large farm.
Some live so far away that they stay at the foundation and go home every three weeks; others are picked up daily by the school tractor in the village of Comandancia Frías or in the nearby hills.
But even there, grapes are picked by hand, with only small tractors to help out in the vineyard.
A tractor crawled through the 10-foot space between the picked rows.
