Trespassing signs, etiquette, good & bad neighbors

[Industrial Toys]

The latest greatest snowmobiles just seem all about noise. Most irritating! Like the organ donor kid on his crotch rocket, at the light, working the throttle.

The ATV/UTV club comes by here once a while. You think you were being invaded by a tank battalion. I bet the members get a real kick out of the noise they all make combined.

 

[Oaktree]

We have problems with snowmobilers and atv'ers. It's the same guys, they just trade one form of racket for the other, depending on the time of year.

There should be a bounty on them. Shoot them, skin them out, and nail their hides to the barn door as a warning to others. They rip up and down our property line, right along "the trail" (that they illegally put in). But they also rip up and down our driveway, through our yard, chase our livestock, tresspass in the field behind our house, rip all the "no tresspassing" signs down, pulled down a section of fence blocking off one field, rip past our house on both the trail side and on our private property side late at night, with open exhaust 2 stroke "race" snowmobiles (aka LOUD).

Wow, nothing like that around here. I've seen a few landowners where the trail passes thru a field who post "stay on trail or stay home" signs, and for the most part everyone is well behaved.
There are no ATV trails in my town that I know of, though as I mentioned upthread some towns further north that do have ATV trails seem to be quite divided on them, largely due to the noise, dust and general rowdiness. If an ATV club wanted to use my property as a trail I would decline.

 

[rademamj]

After I purchased my 27 acre property, which is pretty isolated, I put up two security gates, 10' high and all new fences and have posted/trespassing signs. Still several groups have deliberately penetrated the property for either sales or personal curiosity. I am friendly with the neighbors, but they are unreliable and untrustworthy. I carry a firearm in the tractor, cuz my wife does not want me to become a crime stastic.

 

[STERLING351]

I am one of those who loves my privacy. I have a shared driveway with a neighbor who I like, our drive way about half a mile long then splits to my gate and his. My house is in the center of my property surrounded by liveoaks and mesquite trees. No random stranger who needs medical attention will show up at my door, anyone who is uninvited and shows up at my place is not greeted nicely (this has yet to actually happen). When I bought my land I did not just open my neighbors gate and go say hello, I saw him driving one day and flagged him down on my Polaris to introduce myself and exchange numbers. When ever i have needed to contact another neighbor who's number I don't have, he gives my number to them too see if they would like to speak to me. I really like they guy and the others in my area because we all respect privacy. He will always call before he wants to come over and talk to me or even see if one of his cattle is mixed in with my herd.

I am one of those who believes the No Trespassing sign has no grey area. If you were not invited over then you need to F-Off.

 

[paulfun9]

Have to agree with you. My little 20 acres is a "honey hole" for the things. Stories of people selling them for $30-50 a pound. But there has been a drastic reduction in morels over the last two years. Locals think the decline of ash trees is tied to it.

Good news for me...I burn downed ash if it is free, and less incentive for the mushroomers to make the trip. But it is sad to see ash trees being decimated. Keep wondering what species is going to get hit next.

I simply take the mushrooms they picked! They are mine and they have not and will not ever leave my property with them. If they happen to have some mixed in with the ones picked from someplace else unless they can show me a receipt they are forefitting them also!

Haven稚 had a mushroom picker since I started this policy!

 

[Diggin It]

I'm non-violent, but in regards to some of the signs posted clearly tongue in cheek , I remember seeing this one in stores:

'Trespassers will be shot on sight.
Survivors will be shot again'


Reminded me of an old joke:

Two guys are out hunting. One gets shot.

Other guy calls 911: 'Hey, we're out hunting and my buddy got shot. I think he's dead'
Operator: 'Are you sure he's dead?'
Other guy: 'Hang on, I'll check'
Footsteps going away
BANG
Footsteps coming back.
Other guy: 'Yup, he's dead.'

 

[shooterdon]

I'm non-violent, but in regards to some of the signs posted clearly tongue in cheek , I remember seeing this one in stores:

'Trespassers will be shot on sight.
Survivors will be shot again'


Reminded me of an old joke:

Two guys are out hunting. One gets shot.

Other guy calls 911: 'Hey, we're out hunting and my buddy got shot. I think he's dead'
Operator: 'Are you sure he's dead?'
Other guy: 'Hang on, I'll check'
Footsteps going away
BANG
Footsteps coming back.
Other guy: 'Yup, he's dead.'

There are stories of a guy getting "accidently" shot during deer season who had messed around with someone's wife. It supposedly happened a long time ago before the requirement to wear orange came into effect. Much easier to "accidently" shooting someone wearing a brown jacket than someone in fluorescent orange.

 

[CobyRupert]

Reminded me of an old joke:

Two guys are out hunting. One gets shot.

Other guy calls 911: 'Hey, we're out hunting and my buddy got shot. I think he's dead'
Operator: 'Are you sure he's dead?'
Other guy: 'Hang on, I'll check'
Footsteps going away
BANG
Footsteps coming back.
Other guy: 'Yup, he's dead.'

Reminds me of the old joke:

Two guys walking, one gets bitten by a rattlesnake.
2nd guy calls a doctor.
Doctor says "You need to suck the poison out right away or your friend is going to die."
First guy asks his friend: "Dang, this snake bit me right on the pecker. What did the doctor say?"
2nd guy: "Sorry bud, but Doc says you're going to die!"

 

[MH8675309]

Sounds like some of these people should go back to the city where people don't neighbor as much or help when there's a need. I own property too but dont feel a need to have a militant attitude about people coming up the driveway

 

[FTG-05]

There are stories of a guy getting "accidently" shot during deer season who had messed around with someone's wife. It supposedly happened a long time ago before the requirement to wear orange came into effect. Much easier to "accidently" shooting someone wearing a brown jacket than someone in fluorescent orange.

I used to teach Hunter Safety Classes in WA back in the 80's.

One class we had was with the local Game Warden. He told us that during the previous year (1988?) there were four accidental shooting fatalities during deer hunting season. But he said they highly suspect one fatality was actually a murder.

FIL and SIL, both live in the Seattle area. Both were hunting about 250 miles from home at the same time. However, they weren't hunting together nor did they travel together. One just "coincidentally" ended up within a couple hundred yards of the other and then "accidentally" shot the other. He said they couldn't prove it, so apparently someone got away with murder.