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October 7, 2012 ·
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"I get to sit and read for a lot of the time but whenever I see the partridges, I have to get up and scare them off," he says. "I ring a cowbell and I've even played the accordion, but the ukulele doesn't seem to have any effect on them."
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Graduate finds work as human scarecrow
By T.K. RandallOctober 7, 2012 ·
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Jamie Fox has been supplementing his income by sitting in a field and acting as a human scarecrow.
The bizarre occupation came about after all conventional methods for preventing birds from spoiling crops of oilseed rape in a Norfolk field proved ineffective. The 22-year-old is tasked with wearing a bright orange coat and sitting in the field come rain or shine while sounding a cowbell and playing the accordion. He earns approximately £250 a week for his efforts."I get to sit and read for a lot of the time but whenever I see the partridges, I have to get up and scare them off," he says. "I ring a cowbell and I've even played the accordion, but the ukulele doesn't seem to have any effect on them."
It sounds like the ideal job - the chance to sit down, read a book and perhaps idly strum a ukulele. But Bangor University graduate Jamie Fox has to do it in all weathers, as a human scarecrow in a field in Norfolk.
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