bunyip
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THE bottom one is most definitely not UK
"An Englishman's home is his castle"
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Fri, February 4, 2022, 8:35 AM
Robert Hooper used a forklift to remove the Vauxhall Corsa from his land - Crown Prosecution Service/PA Wire
A farmer who wrecked a car parked on his land with a tractor has been cleared of criminal damage after he successfully used the 400-year-old legal principle that “an Englishman’s home is his castle”.
Farmer who flipped car cleared of criminal damage because ‘Englishman’s home is his castle’
A farmer who wrecked a car parked on his land with a tractor has been cleared of criminal damage after he successfully used the 400-year-old legal principle that “an Englishman’s home is his castle”.www.yahoo.com
ponytug
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Germany; the Biergarten, the source of the parking issue, is visible in the background on some of the shots.
Erik M
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I know a farmer who dropped a large pine tree onto an SUV that didn’t respect the no trespass/no hunting signs on his land. The farmer charged the vehicle owner to remove the tree as well. No legal issues as well within his rights.
I can understand how people would see others parking in his field and expect that it was OK... that was a LOT of cars. Just like seeing a pile of trash and thinking it's the town dump, or some rendition thereof.
It still makes for a good video... Was that an old Massey he was plowing with?
It still makes for a good video... Was that an old Massey he was plowing with?
Sawyer Rob
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I know a farmer who's dad owned land on both sides of some railroad tracks. He passed away and left the land to his son who farmed with him, but by this time the train was long gone and the tracks were taken out. They had always drove across the tracks and farmed both sides, and continued to do so after the tracks were removed.
Then one day the RR grade was turned into a bike path and got paved, and the farmer was notified that he could NO LONGER cross there, because his heavy equipment would ruin the pavement, and he would have to take the road to get to his fields. That would be a 7 mile trip and the farmer figured pizz on the bike path and continued to cross, cracking the pavement with his articulated tractor.
First the police was called, then the DNR ect.. but the farmer wouldn't budge and the fight was on. The yuppie bikers wanted that path fixed (at the farmers expense) and the farmer fell back on the fact that he and his dad had ALWAYS crossed there long before it was a bike path!
One day as the farmer was crossing the grade, the chisel plow "happened" to go down and all of the remaining pavement was tore out! The farmers answer now changed to, there is no pavement there, so I don't see a problem. lol
To this day many years later, those poor bikers have to get off their bikes and push them across that spot, and you know that I feel really bad for them!! lol lol
SR
Then one day the RR grade was turned into a bike path and got paved, and the farmer was notified that he could NO LONGER cross there, because his heavy equipment would ruin the pavement, and he would have to take the road to get to his fields. That would be a 7 mile trip and the farmer figured pizz on the bike path and continued to cross, cracking the pavement with his articulated tractor.
First the police was called, then the DNR ect.. but the farmer wouldn't budge and the fight was on. The yuppie bikers wanted that path fixed (at the farmers expense) and the farmer fell back on the fact that he and his dad had ALWAYS crossed there long before it was a bike path!
One day as the farmer was crossing the grade, the chisel plow "happened" to go down and all of the remaining pavement was tore out! The farmers answer now changed to, there is no pavement there, so I don't see a problem. lol
To this day many years later, those poor bikers have to get off their bikes and push them across that spot, and you know that I feel really bad for them!! lol lol
SR
All that those rails to trails paths do is create access for people to sneak onto private property.
OK, maybe they do serve other purposes yet that doesn't make me statement any less accurate.
Couldn't you say the same thing about roads? Lol. I've been to towns in West Virginia that seem like they survive the summers based on rails for trails tourist traffic.
EddieWalker
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I looked at buying a house once that was next to "open space" but while looking at the house, I saw that the trail through the open space was next the backyard of the house. It was non stop people using that trail while I was there. I hated it, you have more privacy in a city on a tiny lot then living next to a public trail!!!
mapper
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Old RR ROW being converted to trails can get quite interesting. My parents property near Bellingham had an old Interurban railway ROW across it. It was found in the deed that when it was no longer used as a railway the ROW would revert to the surrounding property owners, the local power company that had run the RR would retain a utility easement. My mom filed the appropriate paper work and the easement was vacated. It was a fairly large bit of land, the easment was 100 feet wide! A few years later the county decided to put in a path on the old RR grade.
That's when they ran into the brick wall that was my mother, she refused to give them free access across her land, and was not settling for a token payment.
This situation went on for a year or two with the county refusing to budge as well. It finally came to a head after Mom had my BIL put a gate across the grade. The grade at that point was a half bench cut into a sandstone cliff, >100% slope on the uphill side and a 15-20' cut sandstone retaining wall downhill.
The county had to go to court to condemn the property by eminent domain. The judge set the price at $40k, the width of the easment at 12 ft, and absolutely no motorized vehicle allowed.
Mom graciously had the gate (8' tall made with 1/4" steel plate) removed.
The county assigned a motorcycle deputy to patrol the trail, as soon as Mom noticed him riding the trail across her place she contacted the county and put a stop to that as well, he had to walk or ride a bicycle after that.
This happened in the 80s the length of the ROW across the property was about 400'. There were a couple of neighboring parcels that followed my Mom's lead as well.
That's when they ran into the brick wall that was my mother, she refused to give them free access across her land, and was not settling for a token payment.
This situation went on for a year or two with the county refusing to budge as well. It finally came to a head after Mom had my BIL put a gate across the grade. The grade at that point was a half bench cut into a sandstone cliff, >100% slope on the uphill side and a 15-20' cut sandstone retaining wall downhill.
The county had to go to court to condemn the property by eminent domain. The judge set the price at $40k, the width of the easment at 12 ft, and absolutely no motorized vehicle allowed.
Mom graciously had the gate (8' tall made with 1/4" steel plate) removed.
The county assigned a motorcycle deputy to patrol the trail, as soon as Mom noticed him riding the trail across her place she contacted the county and put a stop to that as well, he had to walk or ride a bicycle after that.
This happened in the 80s the length of the ROW across the property was about 400'. There were a couple of neighboring parcels that followed my Mom's lead as well.
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