I've had hunters pull up to the opening of my driveway, shoot at some animal, then rush away at high speed, while I yelled at them to stop immediately. In VT it is illegal to shoot at any animal from a vehicle, moving or not. I happened to be on the roof of my house at the time about 500' up my drive when it happened.
I also had a hunter appear from the woods behind my house, claiming he was lost. I asked if he had not seen any of the property line posted signs. He said he hadn't and asked how to get to somewhere, I had no idea of where he was referring to. I was nice as I could be under the circumstances - he had a gun, I didn't. I asked that he unload it while he spoke with me. I asked him to exit my property and never set foot on it again or I would press trespassing charges. My land is properly posted, and surrounded by hundreds of acres behind and along my three side, other than the road front I mentioned earlier.
I have a large pond in front of my house close to the road. There is a 70' long stockade fence to give some privacy from the road to the pond. One day, at the early part of fishing season some guy was down on my property side of the fence, FISHING my pond, which at the time was stocked with rainbow trout. I called to him, he beat a line to his car and booked. Another time my next door neighbor, a woman, was swimming in the pond, early in the morning. I went to say hello, and she said she had been swimming in it for years before I owned the property. I told her no problem, but was surprised she didn't at least ask permission. I also caught her husband, a few years later stealing creyfish from the pond to stock their pond with?! He seemed to think it was his right. My neighbor across the road got all bent out of shape because I put up the fence and his dad told me that people around here don't fence their ponds/property. He was from Mass. We moved here in 1986. The son, who now lives across the road part time, still asks me about if we can work out something about the fence. I told him it is in fact my property and I can't believe he still has a bug up his butt about a fence on my side of the road. He had offered to help pay for the cost of trees to block the road instead of the fence. I told him again it would cost thousands of dollars to do the tree thing, and I don't want them dying from road salt the town puts down.
I really can't believe how insane people are and how they think it's their right to tell me, not even ask me what to do with MY property.
My wife just added that she went to drive out of our driveway. which has a wide 50' apron to the road, and she could not get by a parked car that had 3-4 people sleeping in it. She asked what they were doing, they said they had gotten lost and figured they'd sleep there overnight. They asked if they could continue to stay there and she told them to scram.
We share the same feelings and story.
