Posted by EX 450 Owner on October 18, 2011 at 07:26:06 from (50.96.216.197):
Since I don’t want to hijack the deer hunting thread and my rant is not about hunters exclusively but about people in general I decided to start a new thread.
Until a few years ago I lived on a few acres that bordered a game preserve area of a state park.
The thing that always puzzled me is out in the rural area people would violate your property rights in ways that they would never consider doing in a town or city.
Some of the things that I experienced were………
Driving across my Hay fields “I was just trying to find a way back to the river”.
Riding dirt bikes and 4 wheelers on the property.
Dumping Cats and Dogs that ended up at my house and we either had to end up as caregivers or haul them to the humane society.
Littering or even worse dumping garbage in the ditches.
Leaving feces and toilet paper lying around.
Setting up deer stands without permission.
Dressing out deer and leaving the remains laying on my property.
Cutting down trees “we wanted a real Christmas tree, and way back here we didn’t think anyone would mind”.
Stealing from some old parts tractors and machinery parked in a row of trees out of sight of the house. (caught a couple of teenagers, one night that had hooked a complete pickup to their dads tractor and were going to steal the whole pickup they “thought it was just junk and no one wanted it”).
One of my favorite true stories is that back in the mid 1950’s a painting contractor dumped a pickup load of empty paint cans in a ditch in the edge of a pasture where my uncle kept his cattle, the cans had the shipping labels with the contractors address in a nearby town. My uncle loaded up the cans in his pickup and the next Sunday afternoon he went to town and backed the pickup onto the contractors nice manicured front lawn and returned all of the paint can to the rightful owner, he said the Living room curtains were pulled back a little ways and someone peeked out but no one came out to confront him, end of story.
In the 30 some years that I lived next to the state park land, there were hundreds of thousands of people within a 35 mile radius that did not violate my property rights but there were about 100 people that did exhibit total disregard for property rights.
Based on the deer hunter thread, I would guess some here are going to say, I am lying, and if they are true these things shouldn’t have been a problem because people had a right to do whatever they wanted to on my property, and anyway the majority of the people did not violate anything.
All of the incidents are true, and since the property was bought and paid for by me and I believe I had the exclusive right to deny or permit the who could use the property and for what purposes, I do not believe that anyone had a right to be there without asking permission and if that makes me a “stingy Land owner” well I can live with that.
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