Exactly. But since animals don’t run on my property, I’m not using it as an enclosure.
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Thanks, that made way more sense. I don’t think here I can fence the property line itself.
what an obnoxious situation, good lord!
@TheJenners : I have to tell you that I got a good laugh out of your story about coming home to a bull in your front yard.
Every time I think about this, I keep laughing. I know it was probably not funny to you, but thank you for brightening my day with this story! I can just imagine driving up to my house (my neighbors have livestock), and seeing a bull. The bull then looks over at me, like “Hey.” Umm, yeah… Wow!
Again, sorry to have your life flipped around by these ignorant and incapable people, but thank you for giving me a bit of a funny story.
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An update: they appear to no longer have cows. Not my intent but I guess it works for everyone?
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People are just stupid. We live along a river and have fenced the property. I still get people tresspassing that figure out that the foot or so that is outside the fence isn’t ours. Yes, we sold that 1/4 mile long one foot wide section to another idiot.
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Depending on your state/ country, the public has a right to use the navigable waters and banks. It may NOT be trespass in the US of A.
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@hosspuller , which can be a good thing or a bad thing. I don’t mind a momentary trespass or someone who needs to get seek refuge from a storm. It’s the folks who seem to feel they can camp on our land, have a party on our land, and every other excuse we’ve encountered. I’ve been called mean, rude, crazy and some other delightful terms. My questions to the trespassers: Do you own it? How would you feel if I showed up in your back yard and (fill in the blank).
We own river front property…near a public boat landing. When we bought it, at closing the previous owner threw his hands up in the air and said with arms raised in the air " I no longer own the rope swing." He was not a resident on the property and trespassing was rampant, especially when the weather was warm. Teenagers loved to park at the boat landing, walk several hundred yards and enjoy the day. We tried no trespassing signs. They would get ripped down. We tried fencing off the path at multiple locations along the path. We would find the barbed wire cut. Only a couple of issues…1. they left their trash! 2. if they got hurt jumping from the rope swing, liability could be an issue. We tried for several years to keep the rope out of the tree. WE.COUD.NOT.KEEP.UP. Down one day, and it would seem it would be up again the next. We called our friend that has a tree service company and had him cut the tree down. It took a few years, but the trespassing has greatly diminished.
We have a pavilion with a fire pit near the river bank. I will see evidence that folks have used it. I don’t terribly mind that they are using our firewood. And it seems most of those that do use it, take their trash with them. It’s the ones that leave behind the trash that is upsetting. More upsetting is that they can’t even seem to be bothered to put the beer bottles in the large barrel that is chained to the pavilion. Everything had to be locked into place because we had others that thought the beach chairs, hammock, smudge pots, cooler and anything else that wasn’t to heavy was fair game.
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Oh, Yes! The joys of living near a tourist area. Most people are respectful. Too many people are not. I used to live above Santa Monica beach. My driveway was treated like a public parking lot. Now I live below a ski resort adjacent to the National Forest. Snow players block roads, frolic in front yards, light BBQ’s in your front yard, trample your flower beds under the snow, fling diapers and trash anywhere and everywhere. The only hope is that the truly stupid like to sled out onto a frozen lake… the ice inevitably cracks … and voila. - natural selection.
I’m all for public access to these natural resources. I’ll support it every time. I just wish some of those visitors had more respect. I know this thread is about the actions of neighbors. Thanks for the opening for a vent.
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A friend has about 20 acres in Florida in the country, and there’s a natural pond way back in the woods, and to get to it you have to go right past his house. They have Private Drive, No Trespassing, and everything has Posted signs too. Constantly they have people drive right by their house in ATVs, or multiple cars, to have a party on their private, posted property, and the calls to the sheriff were getting people gone, but they came back, sometimes on the same day.
The one thing that worked was when the same group (they recognized the weekend neighbors cars from up the road, and they’re constant trespassers) went right by the house, the sheriff’s department was busy with something else, so my friend and a few neighbors drove down to the pond, with shot guns in full view, and told the people to get out, stay out, and told them trespassing would result in bad things happening, to them, and their vehicles. My friend pointed out that he knows where they live, and how often their property is vacant, and suggested that he would have a big BBQ on their front lawn, and trash it the way they’ve trashed his property. That worked, but it’s sad you have to get ugly with people to keep your property clean, and nice.
It sucks that trespassers have the right to sue after ignoring trespassing signs too.
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JanM - Well, that’s one way of fixing it. For the almost iced over lake I mentioned - I suggested we put up signs that say:
“Caution - Do Not Feed the Alligators!!” Your friend with the pond in the FL could try that too.
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All in all, I prefer animal trespassers to human, but “neither” should be a valid option as well!!
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We might be getting there now… He got out of the Navy (got out, not retired) several months ago and I’m not sure he’s found a job yet or not. But that means no free health insurance, no steady income or BAH (housing allowance for you non-military folks), no base access for cheaper groceries etc. They have in the past month been trying to sell almost all farm equipment, all their pigs, chickens, ducks, turkeys, the sheep they just got last year, the alpacas, etc.
Also, one of them is out on the tractor nearly every night between midnight and 3am, driving around to the back of the property. No clue what that’s about, it’s been happening for a while. The temptation to get a ghillie suit and crawl over is a strong one.
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Possibly growing some of those money-making plants that grow like weeds…
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:lol::lol::lol:
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Now you have to go find out what they are doing from midnight to 3! Inquiring minds want to know!
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Nothing good happens between midnight and 3.
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I’m not sure. Not enough room or power to where they are going to grow more than personal use weed, and ditto power needed for, erm, stronger stuff. It’s just so WEIRD.
Is there a creek or something back there they could be dumping things into? They might figure that a buyer won’t go back there until after they buy.
I am from the land of mobile meth labs and grow plots in corn fields, among other interesting places. I am always amazed at what people do.
Could they be burying things- like dead animals?
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I wonder about the dead animal thing, too 
Or…have they had trash pickup? Have you noticed? They might just be burying garbage, if they were too cheap to pay for the garbage guys.
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