How to stop cars from turning around in my driveway

   / How to stop cars from turning around in my driveway #241  
As it should be. Why would anyone in their right mind trespass on prison or military installations?

A better question is why are there fences around Cemeteries? People are just dying to get in.
 
   / How to stop cars from turning around in my driveway #242  
We used to have folks get off the highway and come down the gravel county road and pull into shop driveway to "turn around".. Pa noticed that they paused by gas barrel for 10 minutes and then left.. seems some of them were used to filling their cars up from our farm gas tank. Pa got tired of it and switched the gas and diesel labels (made sure the bulk supplier knew) and that ended the gas theft.. there was one car that Pa caught in front of the fuel tanks and he claimed he was just turning around and had done nothing wrong.. Pa followed him and within a few miles, the car was on the side of the road.. all done. Pa offered to go back to the house and call the state patrol for help, but the guys declined..

We had trespassers on our farm during hunting season (posted no trespassing). Some of them said they had been hunting there for years, they had permission from land owner (which they did not since we were the land owners). Sheriff wouldn't even come, but I still told them I had already called the sheriff and already recorded their license number from their car/truck. Many were from the west side of Washington and hunted wherever they felt like over here on the east side... they did not understand private property rights at all.
 
   / How to stop cars from turning around in my driveway #243  
Maybe:

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That particular vehicle would never do it again and the burned out hulk might be an effective deterrent.
 
   / How to stop cars from turning around in my driveway #244  
1,seems some of them were used to filling their cars up from our farm gas tank. Pa got tired of it and switched the gas and diesel labels (made sure the bulk supplier knew) and that ended the gas theft...

2, Many were from the west side of Washington and hunted wherever they felt like over here on the east side... they did not understand private property rights at all.

1. That is a classic ! Good for him :cool2:

2. Even here on the West side of the state if you have a decent amount of property city folk treat it like it is public. :mur:
 
   / How to stop cars from turning around in my driveway #245  
My wife is an awesome navigator who has transitioned from the good old street atlas to using the maps app on the phone. The apps like Google Maps or Waze alert to accidents ahead, construction slowdowns, closed roads, etc. Having a second property 7 hours away means occasionally I have to make the trip solo and the apps have been a godsend.

I suspect the op will always have problems with turn arounds baring some sort of gate installed. First of all his property is on the outside of the road curve which makes it perfect for pulling out of with just slight turn of the head left or right to view traffic. The second thing is the road coming down the hill points straight into his property, (an out of control car would almost plow into the spot where the pic was taken). I read that Chinese necromancy advises to not build your home one the outside curve of a river as it can endanger your home in floods, and that this advice has been updated to interpret roads as being the similar to a river. So a necromancer would probably advise the op to plant a row of trees or tall fence or berm so that people coming down the hill would not be able to see the driveway, thereby diverting their energy past the property.
 
   / How to stop cars from turning around in my driveway #246  
Very seldom i go someplace where I need a map anymore, but if i do i use google maps. You just cant beat it.

I dont normally use the navigate feature, i look at the map and determine my own route.

Mainly i use it for traffic, and on long trips to see where cops are, even though i tend to drive the limit.

Im surprised at the number of people that are techphobia.

Not sure why i wrote this in this thread, someone must have mentioned maps..

But if i need to turn around, i look for the most inviting driveway to turn in.
 
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   / How to stop cars from turning around in my driveway #247  
We had trespassers on our farm during hunting season (posted no trespassing). Some of them said they had been hunting there for years, they had permission from land owner (which they did not since we were the land owners).

... they did not understand private property rights at all.

Due to the road that dead ends on the back side of our property I had motorcycles and occasionally a cur drive through my entire yard, motorcycles/dirtbikes were frequent (kids) until I put a fence up as the boulders didn't work for the bikes. Now I get constant foot traffic that ignore the signs and my confrontations ( there has been a few hands on ) which wasn't pretty. So, since there are career trespassers I changed up the game plan yesterday, and threw up some hog wire and chicken wire fencing on T-posts in their usual paths... They cant see the fencing at night and will confuse the **** out of them. Since all the police need here is a clear face picture to arrest I relocated the cameras to get nice pictures as well. Since they will have to stop and try to figure out what is going on after ignoring several signs in each direction ( No Trespassing, Private Property, Camera in Use..ect.. ) they are "Warned" before they enter as the police say that I am properly posted, when I confront them and they ignore me and press on they are now Criminally Trespassing. Since this has been going on for over a year now the police are treating it as a priority and will arrest all from this point on.
The first pic shows where they cut through just past the bridge (stomping down flowers and bushes, which is hog wired now ) there is a sensor that alerts us when anyone crosses the bridge so we always know when they are trespassing.
the second pic shows the chicken wire on the back side where they weasel around the picket fence at the end of the dead end road or cut through the neighbors yard as well , they have to cross a drainage ditch going to the creek on the side there... just amazing how much effort these punks will put into trespassing.. well welcome to all the poison Ivy and poison oak back there and not to mention the snakes.
 

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   / How to stop cars from turning around in my driveway #248  
Due to the road that dead ends on the back side of our property I had motorcycles and occasionally a cur drive through my entire yard, motorcycles/dirtbikes were frequent (kids) until I put a fence up as the boulders didn't work for the bikes. Now I get constant foot traffic that ignore the signs and my confrontations ( there has been a few hands on ) which wasn't pretty. So, since there are career trespassers I changed up the game plan yesterday, and threw up some hog wire and chicken wire fencing on T-posts in their usual paths... They cant see the fencing at night and will confuse the **** out of them. Since all the police need here is a clear face picture to arrest I relocated the cameras to get nice pictures as well. Since they will have to stop and try to figure out what is going on after ignoring several signs in each direction ( No Trespassing, Private Property, Camera in Use..ect.. ) they are "Warned" before they enter as the police say that I am properly posted, when I confront them and they ignore me and press on they are now Criminally Trespassing. Since this has been going on for over a year now the police are treating it as a priority and will arrest all from this point on.
The first pic shows where they cut through just past the bridge (stomping down flowers and bushes, which is hog wired now ) there is a sensor that alerts us when anyone crosses the bridge so we always know when they are trespassing.
the second pic shows the chicken wire on the back side where they weasel around the picket fence at the end of the dead end road or cut through the neighbors yard as well , they have to cross a drainage ditch going to the creek on the side there... just amazing how much effort these punks will put into trespassing.. well welcome to all the poison Ivy and poison oak back there and not to mention the snakes.

I really wish you luck.

Be prepared for retaliation once someone gets charged. These kinds of jerks have no sense of responsibility.
 
   / How to stop cars from turning around in my driveway #249  
GPS is for dummies that can't read maps.

But now if you read a map the LEOs will ticket U for 'distracted driving' while following factory a installed GPS is OK.
Also looking at a passenger held GPS or Cellphone is also 'distracted' driving.

Funny that a pilot can manage 2-4 navigation devices, a complete instrument panel and monitor/talk on 2-3 radios all while watching out for airborne traffic.
 
   / How to stop cars from turning around in my driveway #250  
Funny that a pilot can manage 2-4 navigation devices, a complete instrument panel and monitor/talk on 2-3 radios all while watching out for airborne traffic.

If I were getting paid what a pilot got paid I may learn to read a little more than the speedometer too :D
 

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