Stalker was amused by this snippet from the world of the picker, even if it isn’t a mushroom picker:
-- Prejudice and exploitation aren't the only dangers migrant workers should be warned about before they trade Eastern Europe for somewhere like East Anglia. This week Bogdan Morosan, a Romanian farm worker was struck by lightning as he picked courgettes in a field. He told the Spalding Guardian: "I was holding the knife in my right hand, but my left thumb touched the blade as the lightning struck and pain shot up my arm."
Most of us would consider being struck by lightning a good enough reason to take the rest of the day off. But not Bogdan. "It was not that bad," he says, "and I was able to continue work later in the morning."
Bogdan is a bit of a hero and with that first name he must have some Irish ancestry too.
