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The phone at the Bogle birdseed farm in Hamilton, Ont., rang through to voicemail on Tuesday. It had been about 72 hours since the Crazy Day, as Brad Bogle was now calling it.

“Please be advised,” the voice on the answering machine said, “we are closed and will never open again for sunflower pictures.”

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Brad Bogle, who runs the birdseed farm with his mom and dad, spent much of Tuesday guarding the entrance to their laneway, shooing people away, stopping them from pulling into his farm or parking on the side of the busy road that runs past their sunflower patch. Some did not take it so well.

“I’m getting the finger quite often,” Bogle, 36, said. “I’m getting people yelling at me. I’m getting people telling me, ‘I drove two hours, three hours, I deserve to get my picture taken.'”

Bogle’s neighbours laid out tires on their front lawns, or old stacks of wood, anything to deter the unwelcome visitors from parking on their properties. The problem, for this stretch of Safari Road, is Bogle’s sunflowers are in bloom and people are coming from all over for a photo with them.