any auggestions on how to stop this?

[RollingsFarms]

I own a little under 700 acres of land. about 430 is around my house and then I own a couple other small peices of property on the other side of town. I'm having trouble with people dumping their trash on my land. not much makes me mad, but this absolutley makes my blood boil!!! it seems to go in spurts. it's happened 4 times so far this year. last year only once, the year before that about three times. i'm sick of it!!! there's a public dirt road that runs through the middle of the property that's owned by the county. i've written numerous times to them, and even offered to buy the road from them to no avail. the road is nothing more then a short cut to avoid going through town. it stays pretty busy for a dirt road. i've called the police several times and theyve sent out officers to dig through the trash in the hopes of finding a name or address, but haven't ever had any luck. not once. it's mostly household garbage and crap that people throw away when they clean out their garage or attic. stuff you can't trace back to anyone in other words. it's almost as if they plan it that way and seperate their garbage. i never find ANYTHING that could give me a lead. what do they do with the trash that has their name on it i wonder? i bet they take that to the dump. the real thing that makes me angry is there's a recycling place not 2 miles from my house......two miles! why must they dump their junk on MY property instead of going the two miles to dump their trash? i've never been lucky to catch anyone either. does this happen to anyone else on a regular basis, or even sometimes? did you have any luck stopping it, or at least limiting it? if i ever find one address, name, picture...ANYTHING, someone is going to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and i will see to it that they pay one hefty fine! even if the address, name, or pic i find isn't the person who dumped it, can they still be tied to the trash?

 

[woodchuckie]

I have the same problem and haven't found the answer yet. It takes a special type of person to do that and I hope I never have to associate with that type.

 

[RollingsFarms]

happened to a friend of mine who owns some land. he got lucky because in the trash they dumped, they found tons of receipts and traced it back to a gas station in town. turns out they have some guy take off their trash and he got lazy and decided to dump the trash on my friends land. they got a pretty good sized fine layed on them, the guy got fired, and they had to pay to have the trash cleaned up. wish i had that kind of luck!

 

[sandman2234]

Wife called me about somebody dumping on our deadend road. Police came out and rummaged thru, and found a box with a tag for a special order toilet. Tracked it down to a well to do homeowner who had just paid to have bathroom redone. He gave up the plumbing company, who had no record of the job. description of the plumber told the boss who was doing side work in the companies vehicle. He was called in from a job to explain. Seems his roommate allowed a friend to use the trailer the evening before but since it was loaded with trash he was supposed to dispose of it. The plumber cleaned up the mess and probably chewed out the offender, along with the roommate. I got to enjoy watching them clean it up. David from jax

 

[catskinner]

Buy a hunting trail cam or just make some fake ones, put a sign up saying your on tape, it really worked well here.

 

[Mousefield]

Many years ago the company I worked for had a dumpster that someone loaded with their house trash. I went through it and found their address. Put it all in the company van and dumped it in their driveway. Ya, I was somewhat Pi&*ed off. Never heard any feed back. Ha Ha. :laughing:

 

[Sigarms]

Game camera?

 

[Mike Costello]

Years ago, a guy at my shop refused to pay the tire disposal fee of $1.25/tire, and took back his old tires. He said he would throw them in the dumpster where he lived. I advised him not to do it because the fines were pretty hefty. He did it anyway, was busted by another resident at his complex, and wound up paying $500.00X4= $2000.00.

 

[Hawghauler]

I have never heard of a fine too large for a litterer. Caning would be fine too.

 

[radioman]

in reality, video cameras is your best bet. I wouldnt advertise that you have one up and watching them. let the camera do its job and see if there is more then one culprit and then report it to police and let them deal with it. Once the word spreads you have a camera out there, swap out your real camera with dummies and THEN post signs that they are being watched. Chances are your dummies will get damaged/missing, but no more litter.

 

[RollingsFarms]

the problem with the camera idea is that the dirt road is a mile long, so the places they've dumped trash always changes. it's never in the same spot, they just seem to drive through, dump the trash on the edge of my land and drive off. it's very easy to get away with it because this crime doesn't take but 30 seconds to commit and there's no one around to catch you. what i have done is when i've seen a truck go by my house with junk or trash in the bed, i've always followed them if i was outside and happened to see them.

 

[polo1665]

the problem with the camera idea is that the dirt road is a mile long, so the places they've dumped trash always changes. it's never in the same spot, they just seem to drive through, dump the trash on the edge of my land and drive off. it's very easy to get away with it because this crime doesn't take but 30 seconds to commit and there's no one around to catch you. what i have done is when i've seen a truck go by my house with junk or trash in the bed, i've always followed them if i was outside and happened to see them.

How about one camera at one end of the road and one camera at the other end. You might get a shot of a loaded vehicle entering the road and another shot of that same vehicle exiting empty. You might also notice an unusual amount of time a vehicle has spent on the roadway. Just a thought.
I hate the pigs that do these types of things. It would be nice to identify the vehicle and take all the garbage and dump it at their place.
People are pigs......oops wrong thread

Mark

 

[Richard]

How about one camera at one end of the road and one camera at the other end. You might get a shot of a loaded vehicle entering the road and another shot of that same vehicle exiting empty.

That would be my idea as well.

My wifes family farm, where I live, butts up to another farm and this guy has cows. I've come to understand from this forum that cow's and litter don't mix well because the cows will try to eat things laying on the ground?

Regardless... I personally witnessed our neighbor tossing some trash and beer cans (2) out his window (to his defense, it was not a bag of trash, but a handful) onto the main road which also has his cows on one side of it.

It infuriated me. Several weeks later, he was on our road so I flagged him down. I basically said that there are people out here who do not appreciate him tossing his trash out his vehicle window. After all, it was our 'neighborhood' as well.

His response?

1. What (the ***k is your name?)
2. Where (the ***k do you live?)
3. How much land do YOU own?

"Well, "I" (Mr. Important) own 300 acres... so don't ***k with me boy"

Then he drove off.

Being rather mild manored, I must say for perhaps the 3rd time in my 50 years, I honestly wanted to pull someone out of their vehicle and beat the tar out of them.

What gets me is, it's HIS neighborhood and HIS cow's that I'm also trying to keep in good condition.

idiot.

 

[smstonypoint]

For those of you old enough to remember (and not so old that you can't remember), this is a clear-cut case for Officer Obie from Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant."

Steve

 

[schmism]

The road may be a mile long, but there still has to be a start point to were they enter your property.... Even if you caught every car plate that went by in the past week, you know what day(s) the trash showed up on so by useing the time stamps you can narrow down which cars/trucks were in the area the day the trash was dumped.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

For those of you old enough to remember (and not so old that you can't remember), this is a clear-cut case for Officer Obie from Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant."

Steve

Officer Obie died a few yrs ago.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Obanhein

 

[smstonypoint]

Officer Obie died a few yrs ago.

Oh no. I'm sorry to hear that.

Steve

 

[rekees4300]

. i've written numerous times to them, and even offered to buy the road from them to no avail.

Why wont the county sell the road to you? That seems to be the root problem because you aren't going to stop people from dumping as long as it's a public road. All you are going to do is stress yourself into a heart attack over something you can't control. In the mean time I'd just push the trash off your property onto the shoulder of the road. If the county wants to own the road then let them clean it up.

 

[Chilly807]

I had the same problem years ago. Found a name on a pill bottle, made a nice quiet phone call and suggested they come pick up their garbage before I returned it to them. I guess I made an impression on them, it was gone the next day.

It won't work with everybody, unfortunately.

Sean

 

[piller]

Many years ago the company I worked for had a dumpster that someone loaded with their house trash. I went through it and found their address. Put it all in the company van and dumped it in their driveway. Ya, I was somewhat Pi&*ed off. Never heard any feed back. Ha Ha. :laughing:

Similar story. My parents owned a restaurant when i was growing up, we had a dumpster, clearly labeled not for public use. Occasionally though people would fill up our dumpster and we would have to call the trash company and pay extra for unscheduled trash removal service. One time when this happened we went through the trash, all the identifying information had been painstakingly removed however there were a couple of labels where we could make out the name of a nearby street . Contained in the trash also were several amateur radio morse code cards.

So, we loaded up the trash and drove up and down the street and found that there was exactly one home on the street with a ham radio antenna. We dumped the trash in their front yard. As a finishing touch my father, who had been a radio operator in the war, left the people a note written in morse code asking them to please refrain from using our dumpster in the future. Never heard a word or had a problem after that.