Bavaria: corn on the cob prepared with nails

Arnstorf (dpa / lby) - Unknown people have spiked several corn cobs with rusty nails in a field in Lower Bavaria. A 38-year-old farmer from Arnstorf (Rottal-Inn district) noticed this during the harvest when the metal detector in his corn chopper struck, the police said on Saturday. The machine sorted out the prepared pistons. However, the harvesting process had to be interrupted each time, resulting in a crop failure. If nails had gotten into the corn chopper in the incident on Friday, four-digit damage could have occurred, according to the police. She is now investigating property damage and coercion.