THESE three students took over the role of Worzel Gummidge to scare the birds away.
John Quarry, Sara Bennet and Adam Cole trudged around James Best’s cherry orchards at Grove Farm, Harwell, in 1984 shouting, shooting guns, waving football rattles and blaring car horns.
Mr Best paid them £100 a week to protect his crop.
He said: “There’s not a lot of job satisfaction.
“In fact, it can be extremely monotonous. But they are ideal.
“The birds soon get used to the hi-tech scarers. You can’t beat a human being.”