Why people tresspass

[funwithahoe]

hey wait a minute aint that like a right to be married.. enjoyment of the spouse's company in a location of your choice???

:laughing:

J

Yeah but I don't think these people were married - At least not to each other!

 

[nap61]

As was said, each state has diiferent laws. In Louisiana, a few years ago, the trespassing law was changed. Now, your land does not have to be posted. If you do not own the land or have permission from the owner to be there, YOU ARE TRESPASSING - PERIOD. If it is not yours, DO NOT ENTER.
Also, if a stream/bayou is navagable (you can float a boat) it is not private and the water bottom is state property. The reparian landowner can not stop you from fishing in the stream. But, you can't use or dock, or trespass on his property.

Norm

 

[dmccarty]

... We bought some peace of mind by adding an umbrella liability policy to our insurance. I think 2m cost us less than $200 per year and covers several properties we have.

A person did not yield at an intersection and hit us a while back. We went back and revisited our insurance. We had great insurance for US if WE were not at fault. The accident could have been much worse. If we had been at fault and the accident had been worse we could have lost everything.

We have an umbrella policy like yours. Cost is about the same as well. Covers me working on the tractor if I am mowing our common road and something bad happens. Just as long as I am not taking money for the work.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

I think a few of these:
ATAFA.com: Airsoft M18A1 Claymore Mine

and a couple of good signs...

maybe hook up a motion detector up to it...

I can't believe they have stuff like this! I know about Airsoft but I did not know they were making Claymores, mines and grenades! What fun we could have had with this stuff as kids!

:laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[Richard]

About 10 years ago when I lived in the city I came home from dinner with my wife and found an unfamiliar car parked in my driveway. At that time of year there was a street festival nearby and it wasn't uncommon to have cars parked on both sides of the street (illegally) or to have the driveway blocked partially. I usually just dealt with the inconvenience every year but to have someone actually park in my driveway was a bit much.

So my wife went in the house and I proceeded to get my tools from the garage and removed the wheels from the car. I was careful to not damage the wheels and the car was placed gently on blocks. I was simply going to leave the wheels stacked in front of the car with the lugnuts in neat piles of five. Just sending a message (what type of message and what I hoped to accomplish I have no idea.......just spite I suppose).

Just as I put my jack and pneumatic ratchet away and am going into the house I hear someone yelling from the end of my driveway......it's one of my best friends (and his wife) who had decided to park his new car in my driveway to go to the festival. Good times, good times.......:thumbsup:

You did tell him that you knew it was him and were simply, as a favor, rotating his tires during their initial 100 mile break in?

 

[RadarTech]

I can't believe they have stuff like this! I know about Airsoft but I did not know they were making Claymores, mines and grenades! What fun we could have had with this stuff as kids!

:laughing:

Later,
Dan

Of course I can't speak for you but I am still a kid
Albeit a big one but still a kid

 

[Jim Thompson]

Of course I can't speak for you but I am still a kid
Albeit a big one but still a kid

Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional!

Jim

 

[brin]

Jim ---You think like I do on this...I ditto it..." Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional! "

 

[dmccarty]

Of course I can't speak for you but I am still a kid
Albeit a big one but still a kid

Oh I am still a big kid. I refuse to grow up. Going to Disney World in less that 60 days. But who is counting! :thumbsup:

But I am not sure the other "adults" in the neighborhood would find it fun if I started setting up Claymore and land mines. :laughing: Some of them are kinda uptight. Course an Airsoft Claymore going off on 'em might loosen them up a bit.....

:thumbsup:

On the other hand I know the deputy who patrols our neighborhood. I want to stay on his good side.

Deputy Jon, "Dan, do you know anything about an Airsoft Claymore that was set up down by the road?" Dan replied, "I SWEAR it was to scare off the deer!"

Later,
Dan

 

[RadarTech]

Oh I am still a big kid. I refuse to grow up. Going to Disney World in less that 60 days. But who is counting! :thumbsup:

But I am not sure the other "adults" in the neighborhood would find it fun if I started setting up Claymore and land mines. :laughing: Some of them are kinda uptight. Course an Airsoft Claymore going off on 'em might loosen them up a bit.....

:thumbsup:

On the other hand I know the deputy who patrols our neighborhood. I want to stay on his good side.

Deputy Jon, "Dan, do you know anything about an Airsoft Claymore that was set up down by the road?" Dan replied, "I SWEAR it was to scare off the deer!"

Later,
Dan

Not deer... that mean dog...
Ya know the one that chases me?
I set up an ambush! :thumbsup::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[dingo983]

Get into beekeeping and set them up near your property lines. Most people think they will be swarmed like in the movies and tend to stay clear of them.

 

[Kal130]

All I can say is this. If you think you have it bad, wait till the Amish move in.

 

[Ford tractor]

This is just a rant. I'll be putting up small billboards for the long weekends next summer as well as video taping trespassers.

This may not work in Canada, but put up prominent signs that list civil fees for fishing ($1000), trespass ($1000), etc etc etc.

A cheap 100 dollar game cam will get you the proof if you want to take them to small claims and cash in.

 

[zimbo]

The next guy you catch fishing, just walk over to his tackle box and open it up. Tell him you're looking for anything you can use in there because you like "just fishing" too. Tell him since he is using your land it is only fair that you can use his tackle.

This is the best idea Ive heard for ages!

As a youngster I lived on a farm in Zimbabwe, we built a beautiful small hotel overlooking a plain which was very popular. For security the property had a 15 strand electric fence. One weekend a bunch of kids cut the fence, and drove their dirt bikes around the plain chasing the game. I asked them nicely to leave, and got a few four letter words in reply, so I went and got my brand new .303, I found them lighting a fire by the dam, so I put a shot through the engine of the nicest bike, they swore more so I did the same to the next one. Eventually they decided I was nuts and ran.
When the parents came to fetch the bikes they found them on the scrap heap!
Zimbabwe used to have very interesting trespassing laws - If your land has game , "poachers" can be shot on sight! It was years before anyone tried that one again, and Ive also mellowed out alot, all I want is for people to ask nicely.

 

[beppington]

As a youngster I lived on a farm in Zimbabwe, we built a beautiful small hotel overlooking a plain which was very popular. For security the property had a 15 strand electric fence. One weekend a bunch of kids cut the fence, and drove their dirt bikes around the plain chasing the game. I asked them nicely to leave, and got a few four letter words in reply, so I went and got my brand new .303, I found them lighting a fire by the dam, so I put a shot through the engine of the nicest bike, they swore more so I did the same to the next one. Eventually they decided I was nuts and ran.
When the parents came to fetch the bikes they found them on the scrap heap!
Zimbabwe used to have very interesting trespassing laws - If your land has game , "poachers" can be shot on sight! It was years before anyone tried that one again, and Ive also mellowed out alot, all I want is for people to ask nicely.

... & not cut the fence, & not chase the game, & not curse at you, etc etc etc.

 

[blumenfeld pagan]

Put up a large sign that reads "Trespassers WILL be VIOLATED" LOL Make em' think twice :thumbsup:

 

[Tig]

I came across this old thread that I started and wanted to share a karma themed update on the people who inspired the original rant.
The "chronic" trespass violators were a group of about a dozen who showed up most long weekends. I'd have to address them in my yard repeatedly over the course of the weekend.
My last encounter with these people was the one I described as the guy who told me; "I just want to look around." The extended talk that I had with him was actually a nose to nose with me doing all the talking. I really hate to be like that, but at that point in the weekend hearing what he "wanted" pushed my button pretty hard so I set my tools down and I came down off my ladder to better explain what I wanted.
That talk actually ended my problem with the chronics. None of them have set foot in my yard since.
I had instructed papa chronic to take my message back to his entire group. Seems that he did that and more. The next week another neighbour (Ms Ambivalent) came over to vouch for those "really nice harmless people" (the chronics). Nice, I guess I'm the bad guy for getting to the point where I was less than pleasant with one of them.
Fast forward to the Saturday night on first long weekend of 2011. The "chronic" men were partying while the women and kids tried to sleep in the cars. Well, Ms Ambivalent asked them several times to turn the music down and they made a game out of smiling nodding, waiting for her to go back to bed and then turning the music up louder and laughing. Ms Ambivalent called the police, because they were "disrespectful" people.
So, after years of being a nuisance, the chronics finally gave me something to smile about. I haven't seen them since.

 

[jimmyj]

I came across this old thread that I started and wanted to share a karma themed update on the people who inspired the original rant.
The "chronic" trespass violators were a group of about a dozen who showed up most long weekends. I'd have to address them in my yard repeatedly over the course of the weekend.
My last encounter with these people was the one I described as the guy who told me; "I just want to look around." The extended talk that I had with him was actually a nose to nose with me doing all the talking. I really hate to be like that, but at that point in the weekend hearing what he "wanted" pushed my button pretty hard so I set my tools down and I came down off my ladder to better explain what I wanted.
That talk actually ended my problem with the chronics. None of them have set foot in my yard since.
I had instructed papa chronic to take my message back to his entire group. Seems that he did that and more. The next week another neighbour (Ms Ambivalent) came over to vouch for those "really nice harmless people" (the chronics). Nice, I guess I'm the bad guy for getting to the point where I was less than pleasant with one of them.
Fast forward to the Saturday night on first long weekend of 2011. The "chronic" men were partying while the women and kids tried to sleep in the cars. Well, Ms Ambivalent asked them several times to turn the music down and they made a game out of smiling nodding, waiting for her to go back to bed and then turning the music up louder and laughing. Ms Ambivalent called the police, because they were "disrespectful" people.
So, after years of being a nuisance, the chronics finally gave me something to smile about. I haven't seen them since.

Megafantastic story! You should write a book.

 

[jinman]

That's a good "not in my back yard" (NIMBY) story. The Chronics went from harmless, to disrespectful, to a nuisance the closer they got to Ms Ambivalent. What do you want to bet that she still considers you to be Mr Intolerant? I'm glad the Chronics are gettin' their 'come-up-ances.'