Do you know what the purple paint law is?

[Jstpssng]

Those clever little signs are cute, but I will never understand what gives somebody the right to kill another for walking where you shouldn't. Around here it's because they are engaged in making Meth or some other illegal activity. Years ago on a timber cruise in New Hampshire I was walking down a boundary line at the end of a long hot day. There was a house with the owners working outside so I put my dog on their leash, hailed them, then walked down and asked for permission to walk down their driveway. Based on comments here, apparently I'm lucky I didn't get shot for walking on their side of the line.

 

[LD48750]

I would like to know how some of these people carry all the written permissions every time they step off the land they rent (through property taxes) from the government?
Do they look up ownership of EVERY foot of land they travel on to anyplace they go?

 

[Frankenkubota]

In scotland people have access to the beaches, regardless who owns the property.

I found this out while playing Muirfield golf club in Scotland, said to be the most exclusive blah blah blah

while we were playing, a family walked across our fairway, headed for the beach, loaded for a pick nic.

we waited.....now, if i had a gun with me.......

 

[MoKelly]

In scotland people have access to the beaches, regardless who owns the property.

I found this out while playing Muirfield golf club in Scotland, said to be the most exclusive blah blah blah

while we were playing, a family walked across our fairway, headed for the beach, loaded for a pick nic.

we waited.....now, if i had a gun with me.......

In Florida we need to wait for alligators to cross the fairways before we play through!

MoKelly

 

[cqaigy2]

Had you read my entire post rather than tken it out of context; you would know what I meant.

I am allowed access to private property; we have several million acres where we are allowed to recreate. If I go to another state I don't expect it to be the same way; I would have to get to know the laws and customs first.
Yet many people here seem to think that just because things should be the same way everywhere, that they are in their little corner of the world.

I don't understand why so many posters feel they have the right to tell somebody else that they can't allow people access to their land.
You don't own it; it's none of your business what they allow, any more than I have the right to tell you that you need to allow somebody else on yours.

I have a feeling that Washington state is the Main of the west. We have ocean and land, and aren't too uptight people being in or on it, as long as they are being polite.

 

[Sigarms]

Moral of this story: I don't know. It just seems like people are OK as long as you give them what they want.

At the end of the day, if the land you use is not your own or is not available for the public to use, you should have no expectations of being given rights to use that land, nor should you be disappointed if someone who owns the land says "no".

 

[Sigarms]

Those clever little signs are cute, but I will never understand what gives somebody the right to kill another for walking where you shouldn't.

You don't have the right to kill someone for just "walking on your land" in the United States.

 

[MoKelly]

At the end of the day, if the land you use is not your own or is not available for the public to use, you should have no expectations of being given rights to use that land, nor should you be disappointed if someone who owns the land says "no".

Simply said and 1000 times correct.

MoKelly

 

[tracracer8867]

I was born and raised in SW PA. I now live in SC. We have the purple paint in some areas here and it supposedly works well. I have never been involved in a trespassing case here though. We did have a problem in PA with trespassers until we caught and prosecuted a couple. We got the State Police involved, the people were warned, by those SP, and we caught them again. Then it became criminal trespass and they were fined $750 each with the warning that the next occurrence would entail jail time. I called a friend here that does have posts painted around his property and he claims that it stopped all the "good" neighbors from sneaking onto his land. Now he is fighting jack-lighters in his back pastures.

 

[Jstpssng]

At the end of the day, if the land you use is not your own or is not available for the public to use, you should have no expectations of being given rights to use that land, nor should you be disappointed if someone who owns the land says "no".

I haven't seen anybody argue otherwise. OTOH there seem to be an awful lot of posters taking umbrage with the fact that some do allow respectful access. It's not illegal, trespassing, or an entitlement, as many have implied. Nor is it a right. Being allowed to access somebody else's land is a privilege, and something which I appreciate.