Trespassers

[Joel/ak]

We actually caught a homeless guy making camp. Actually my wife did, she confronted the guy and he was belligerent with her until she let our German shepherd out of the truck. He became very compliant. Our pup wanted his carcass. That was the last of that guy.

 

[bdhsfz6]

We actually caught a homeless guy making camp. Actually my wife did, she confronted the guy and he was belligerent with her until she let our German shepherd out of the truck. He became very compliant. Our pup wanted his carcass. That was the last of that guy.

How long did it take the dog to finish him off?

 

[dmccarty]

We have had ATVs trespass as well. I was in the garden one day and heard engines getting closer. Sure enough two idiots had come down a property line that intersects ours, went right past a no trespass sign that they could not avoid seeing, and drove onto our land. We had a talk.

Pretty sure I know where these idiots lived and thankfully they moved. I think they were the same morons dumping trash and letting their dogs run free. Someone, and I think it was them, dumped some very nice, heavy, large capacity shop jacks that were broken. How they broke those shop jacks is a mystery. They just dumped them on the side of a private road. Another time, they drove down a property line and dumped plastic garden trash.

There is a garbage collection center that is open to county residents with no entry charge. Back then, you did not even have to have a decal. The collection center is near the only local grocery stores so these morons spent more time illegally dumping their trash than it would have taken them to dispose of the garbage legally.

MORONS.

 

[Bullwinkle123]

Vermont laws favor people trespassing, i.e. many Vermonters feel it's their god given right to trespass where they please for any purpose. The law requires signs posted every 400 feet, signed and dated annually. If you've got any real acreage, especially forested, it's pretty much impossible to meet the requirements. Plus the hunters just pull the signs down while putting up trail cams on your property.

I've managed to avoid escalations so far. I've used my grapple to place large boulders in the areas they like to park, which has helped a lot. Prior to that they would just move my junk as they pleased to park. (I'd put things like large drain pipes and such across parking areas, they'd just move them). If somebody wants to use my land, they can bloody well pay a percentage of my taxes for the privilege. Failing that, they're not welcome.

[Update: corrected distance between signs requirement]

 

[sandman2234]

I had planted about 100 blueberry bushes and was enjoying the berries a few years later. One day, I came out and someone had run over the 6 foot tall plants, and destroyed them! I followed the tracks back to my neighbors place and called him. Apparently his kids (grown adults) had brought their friends and atv's and went riding. He had given them my cell # and told them to get permission. They didn't...
He chewed them out for 15 mins so loud I could hear him at my house. He offered to make them pay, or better yet make them buy full grown bushes and replant them, but I told him not to worry about it. (He is too good of a neighbor!!)
David from jax

 

[MossRoad]

I had planted about 100 blueberry bushes and was enjoying the berries a few years later. One day, I came out and someone had run over the 6 foot tall plants, and destroyed them! I followed the tracks back to my neighbors place and called him. Apparently his kids (grown adults) had brought their friends and atv's and went riding. He had given them my cell # and told them to get permission. They didn't...
He chewed them out for 15 mins so loud I could hear him at my house. He offered to make them pay, or better yet make them buy full grown bushes and replant them, but I told him not to worry about it. (He is too good of a neighbor!!)
David from jax

That reminded me of our place. We had some reforestation done and were still battling dirt bike and ATV riders and someone took an ATV and instead of running BETWEEN the rows of planted trees, ran OVER the rows of planted trees because there were two clear paths on each side of the planted trees due to side spraying. GRRRR!!!!

 

[Jstpssng]

When I was in HS and for a few years afterwards my father had a perpetual war with kids on dirt bikes... they loved to run down through the hay field 3 abreast, just about the time he was thinking about hooking up the mowing machine. They thought it was great fun to run over his "No Trespassing" signs. He complained to the local PD repeatedly and even gave them the names, but all they could tell him was that unless they saw it happen there was nothing rthey could do. He finally had enough and told the officer that there were a lot of woodchucks around and it wasn't his fault if a kid got in the way when he was shooting. The dirt bikes stopped immediately. It's unfortunate that it came to that and now he probably would have been looking at jail time; but he did what he had to do.

A few years later I was visiting when I heard voices out in the field. Looking out, I saw 2 people coming down through the field on a 3 wheeler. As I watched they veered over, making it a point to run over a row of Christmas trees which had been planted a few years earlier. I started walking down to intercept them but they saw me coming and took off as soon as they hit the tar.

 

[ponytug]

I don't understand the lack of respect for other people, and their property.

 

[Eagle223usa]

I don't understand the lack of respect for other people, and their property.

It seems to be the new normal, sadly. The world is being repopulated with unraised children.

 

[MossRoad]

I don't understand the lack of respect for other people, and their property.

Every time you see someone toss a cigarette butt out a car window, or the cellophane wrapper from a pack of smokes, you can start there. No respect for public places, let alone private property.