Trespassers

[cqaigy2]

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.

That's something irksome out west in the summer time, people throwing or tapping their cigarettes' ash out the window.

 

[John_Mc]

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.

That's been going on for generations. One of my brothers favorite responses when he was behind someone at a stop light who did that was to pick up the butts, knock on their window, and when they rolled down the window to see what he wanted, he would toss the butts inside and say, "here. I think you dropped these."

 

[Jstpssng]

That's something irksome out west in the summer time, people throwing or tapping their cigarettes' ash out the window.

I remember going for a ride one spring day 50+ years ago with 6 of us in the back seats of the station wagon while my mother, father and one of his friends sat in the front. After watching his friend toss a cigarette out the window I looked back before we got out of sight, then said
“There’s a lot of smoke in the road back there.”

My father’s friend said “I just threw a cigarette out.”

That was my point. I can’t imagine that a fire started that quickly yet have always wondered.

 

[tradosaurus]

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

They should have definitely paid something. Otherwise the adult miscreants won't learn.

 

[IndyJay]

They should have definitely paid something. Otherwise the adult miscreants won't learn.

Absolutely, a "learning opportunity " was lost here.

 

[ponytug]

That's been going on for generations. One of my brothers favorite responses when he was behind someone at a stop light who did that was to pick up the butts, knock on their window, and when they rolled down the window to see what he wanted, he would toss the butts inside and say, "here. I think you dropped these."

I remember going for a ride one spring day 50+ years ago with 6 of us in the back seats of the station wagon while my mother, father and one of his friends sat in the front. After watching his friend toss a cigarette out the window I looked back before we got out of sight, then said
“There’s a lot of smoke in the road back there.”

My father’s friend said “I just threw a cigarette out.”

That was my point. I can’t imagine that a fire started that quickly yet have always wondered.

I once saw someone drop a lit cigarette at a (red) stop light. The guy behind him leapt out and tossed the cigarette back into the smoker's car. I seem to recall a certain amount of chaos in the smoker's car...

 

[John_Mc]

I once saw someone drop a lit cigarette at a (red) stop light. The guy behind him leapt out and tossed the cigarette back into the smoker's car. I seem to recall a certain amount of chaos in the smoker's car...

Exactly what my brother was doing. Nothing like a ruined seat cover to teach someone the error of their ways

 

[Jstpssng]

I once saw someone drop a lit cigarette at a (red) stop light. The guy behind him leapt out and tossed the cigarette back into the smoker's car. I seem to recall a certain amount of chaos in the smoker's car...

When I was pumping gas after HS I watched a woman toss a cigarette out her window as I was filling her tank. I called her out on it but it was obvious she didn't care.

 

[ponytug]

When I was pumping gas after HS I watched a woman toss a cigarette out her window as I was filling her tank. I called her out on it but it was obvious she didn't care.

That's just crazy dangerous...

 

[Jstpssng]

That's just crazy dangerous...

There was another occasion when one of our regulars was smoking a cigarette while I filled his tank, and tended to other customers. The nozzle didn't kick off and when his tank filled, started spewing gas all over the ground. He yelled to me, and later admitted that he was reaching over to shut it off when he realized that it wasn't the smartest thing to do.

I also got second degree burns that year when somebody opened their radiator cap just as I was walking past, spewing the cap and antifreeze all over the yard... and my face.
I'll bet that you didn't know that pumping gas could be so dangerous!

 

[oosik]

Last week I though I had caught some trespassers. I'm down the driveway to check on the mail. Near the very end - a large white truck is parked in the driveway and I can hear chainsaws running.

It's the electric utility guys. They are in checking on the power lines. Felling a few trees that could fall on their power lines. Always glad to see those fellows out on the job.

 

[MossRoad]

That's been going on for generations. One of my brothers favorite responses when he was behind someone at a stop light who did that was to pick up the butts, knock on their window, and when they rolled down the window to see what he wanted, he would toss the butts inside and say, "here. I think you dropped these."

Been tempted many times, but it's a good way to get punched. Better to immediately lay on horn and don't let up for a few blocks.

 

[MossRoad]

I remember going for a ride one spring day 50+ years ago with 6 of us in the back seats of the station wagon while my mother, father and one of his friends sat in the front. After watching his friend toss a cigarette out the window I looked back before we got out of sight, then said
“There’s a lot of smoke in the road back there.”

My father’s friend said “I just threw a cigarette out.”

That was my point. I can’t imagine that a fire started that quickly yet have always wondered.

We had a VW bus back in 60s and 70s. I was always sitting in the way back on the left. There was a little wing window back there and I'd stick my face in it like a dog on a car ride. My oldest sister was sitting just in front of me behind the driver. She also had a little wing widow. She lit a cigarette with a match, shook the match out, and then tossed it out her wing window. It came back in though my wing window and landed in my eye, still burning hot. Took several days to clear up the injury.

 

[MossRoad]

Exactly what my brother was doing. Nothing like a ruined seat cover to teach someone the error of their ways

Reminds me of getting into a stoner's car and seeing all the little pinhole burn marks in the seats from the seeds popping.

 

[NoTrespassing]

Last week I though I had caught some trespassers. I'm down the driveway to check on the mail. Near the very end - a large white truck is parked in the driveway and I can hear chainsaws running.

It's the electric utility guys. They are in checking on the power lines. Felling a few trees that could fall on their power lines. Always glad to see those fellows out on the job.

Powerline tree trimmers are a problem for us. They have to trim trees on our private drive with a boom truck and there's no way to get out of the property when they're doing it. I'm sure they feel the same about us when we want out. It takes a while for them to get down and move the truck to let us out or in the property. There have been a few times when we were almost late to work or to pick up/drop off our kid for school. I wish they'd trim the trees back farther so they didn't have to trim every year. We've learned that if we hear them trimming to leave about 15 minutes early.

 

[kenmbz]

Powerline tree trimmers are a problem for us. They have to trim trees on our private drive with a boom truck and there's no way to get out of the property when they're doing it. I'm sure they feel the same about us when we want out. It takes a while for them to get down and move the truck to let us out or in the property. There have been a few times when we were almost late to work or to pick up/drop off our kid for school. I wish they'd trim the trees back farther so they didn't have to trim every year. We've learned that if we hear them trimming to leave about 15 minutes early.

Our town has let many trees trim themselves. Since we have a lot of dead ash, they take out power.
Wouldn't mind them showing up and blocking our road.
Why would they need to be showing up so often? I guess they are on the clock

 

[NoTrespassing]

Our town has let many trees trim themselves. Since we have a lot of dead ash, they take out power.
Wouldn't mind them showing up and blocking our road.
Why would they need to be showing up so often? I guess they are on the clock

Yea, they are contracted by the power company. If they trim them back too far there won't be any work the next year.

 

[bdhsfz6]

Years ago, I subdivided off a 2 acre parcel and sold it to the daughter of a good friend & neighbor. She built a nice little house on the lot and kept the place looking neat. The idea was, she would be nearby to care for her ailing father.

Well, she married an idiot who totally ignores the property line. Every year, he mows an extra tractor width onto my land. Now his "yard" is 50' beyond the property line into my pasture. He even stacks his firewood there!

My neighbor friend is 86 and not in good health. I want to put up a fence on the property line but I don't want to risk causing family problems which he doesn't need right now. The pasture is fallow and I have no plans to do anything with it in the near future. My wife and I feel the best thing to do is not say anything and just wait.

My neighbor is a real nice guy and I don't know what he did to deserve this jerk for a son in law.

 

[tradosaurus]

Years ago, I subdivided off a 2 acre parcel and sold it to the daughter of a good friend & neighbor. She built a nice little house on the lot and kept the place looking neat. The idea was, she would be nearby to care for her ailing father.

Well, she married an idiot who totally ignores the property line. Every year, he mows an extra tractor width onto my land. Now his "yard" is 50' beyond the property line into my pasture. He even stacks his firewood there!

My neighbor friend is 86 and not in good health. I want to put up a fence on the property line but I don't want to risk causing family problems which he doesn't need right now. The pasture is fallow and I have no plans to do anything with it in the near future. My wife and I feel the best thing to do is not say anything and just wait.

My neighbor is a real nice guy and I don't know what he did to deserve this jerk for a son in law.

Lesson learned. You can't predict the spouse of a good friends daughter.
That and lease the land and don't sell it.

Personally I would talk to the idiot and inform him of the property line. If he neglects your advice then pursue another route.

 

[lman]

Thank goodness I don't recall ever having to ride with somebody smoking. Won't happen in any of my vehicles.