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I find nudity encourages them to move along. JK :)[/QUOTE]
Awesome responses 
Thanks for lessening the paranoia - who am I kidding, I slow to look at horses too…
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It might be the tax appraisal people checking out your property and the improvements.
I was just talking to DH about this as we walked our property. We have a very pretty bank barn set down a long tree lined drive. You can’t actually see the house from the road so I don’t mind the occasional photographer. We also have an alarm system and dogs! I did get a chuckle a few years ago when a neighbor was selling their home and a picture of our property was included in the sales ad!
[QUOTE=jdobbs64;8765330]
I find nudity encourages them to move along. JK :)[/QUOTE]
Unless that causes them to slow down more or stop…
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Unless it becomes notably suspicious, like the same vehicle multiple times a day, I wouldn’t worry. DH and I routinely slow down or loop around to drive past something again for a look.
I worry more about the door-to-door people that are trying to case your property. There have been some aggressive sales people here, and I really doubted that they were really selling anything, but were casing properties, and checking out security at your place.
I always thought the moving slowly drivers were lost, or looking at real estate (there are a lot of sale and rent properties here), or someone visiting friends. I live in a newer suburb in the country, and there are always new houses going up, and a sales center down the street.
Well placed game camera is never a bad idea…
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A couple weeks ago a lady stopped in the middle of the rode and was yelling out the car window–we thought our dog was on the road and she was yelling at us. I started walking over to her, and heard her better, she was yelling, “Horses! Run across the field horses! Horses run!”, I got close enough she noticed me and peeled out, tires squealing. Of course, the horses just stood blinking at her… :lol:[/QUOTE]
That’s hilarious. Although, I can’t blame her. When I first open my pasture for summer turnout, my horses blast out like they are running the Kentucky derby. Even I enjoy watching that for a few weeks - not surprising that anyone driving by would want to make them do it again. 
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Unless that causes them to slow down more or stop…[/QUOTE]
But if you’re also yodeling, running and waving a pitchfork they tend to speed up. ???
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“OMIGOD HORSES DID YOU SEEEEEE THERE ARE HORSES RIGHT THERE BY THE ROAD STOP THE CAR EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”
…and that’s me with no shortage of horses in my life. (It’s worse with horse-obsessed teenagers.) I especially do this in places where there mostly aren’t horses, and then find one. (If anybody knows the Boston area, there are a couple of horses that live right on MA-38 in Woburn, just inside I-95. After putting up with driving through Woburn they always make me smile.)
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the buffalo and the donkey on our property brings gawkers. The up side is that everybody knows who we are in the area, so I imagine its more protective, in a way.
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Maybe your property is on the foreclosure auction list? By accident, of course? :winkgrin:
Just kidding !!! 
Probably just enjoying your lovely horses and lovely place. It’s a good thing to slow down and enjoy, sometimes.
Or … the CIA thinks you have a message drop area for sinister foreign spies.
Or the sheriff has investigators looking for signs of a meth lab.
Or an editor is thinking of using Your Property for a feature on Gorgeous Farms with Horses.
Or maybe your horses are smiling and winking at passersby when you aren’t looking …
You could have some fun with this! Every time someone slows down, think of a new creative reason why. You could even work your good or bad day’s events into it.
OP, What are they taking pictures with?
A cell phone, wouldn’t worry me. A telephoto lens would.
Do you have drapes on your windows?
Around here folk plant tall hedges along the roads to screen their property. Partly to deter Looky Lou’s, but mostly to save the fences. Cars tend to go in the direction the driver looks.
We have a gelding that thinks he’s a stallion. He makes the cars with children speed up when passing our farm.
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If it’s Pokemon, maybe more signs are in order:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/453798188/pikachu-no-pokemons-here-sign-pokemon-go?ref=market
https://www.etsy.com/listing/466700613/pokemon-are-for-paying-customers-only?ref=market
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That’s hilarious. Although, I can’t blame her. When I first open my pasture for summer turnout, my horses blast out like they are running the Kentucky derby. Even I enjoy watching that for a few weeks - not surprising that anyone driving by would want to make them do it again. ;)[/QUOTE]
Honestly, I would have chased them around for her–I love to watch them go too! I get people slowing down to watch when I’m out there with a camera and a whip trying to get the mare and baby to play for sales pics… It’s not the most effective b/c they they normally go straight away from me and I only get butt pics.
Our little herd is pretty active and always looking for an excuse to run
I slow down and gawk if there are goaties outside or pretty flowers. I don’t think I look terribly creepy (middle-aged, driving boring car) but I will say I am hyper-aware of cars on my own road driving “too slowly”. It’s a fine line between appreciating scenery vs. creeping folks out!
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OP, What are they taking pictures with?
A cell phone, wouldn’t worry me. A telephoto lens would. [/QUOTE]
Eh. Road my horses are on is a hotspot for bird watchers and their huge telephoto lenses. One gentleman had no luck with getting the birds he wanted… I saw him standing by the horse fence and went to say hi. He asked for permission to photograph the horses and I said “sure!” Couple weeks later he delivered some lovely prints of my horses taken with that fancy camera.
In the summer I can’t think of a time where there hasn’t been at least one car driving slowly or stopping near the farm to check what birds/wildlife are out and about! Some days there is a half dozen cars parked on the side of a road and twice as many people with cameras!
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Blame Pokémon ;)[/QUOTE]
You can check if it’s Pokemon!
Though I’ve found most rural areas don’t have many, they do pop up now and then (yes yes I’ve joined the craze. I’m on mat leave, might as well have a little fun when out walking with a sleeping little one I need her stroller).
Go to this site, search to your area, and it will show all Pokemon available in your area in real time.
We live on a busy highway but our driveway is on a side road and we get a lot of slow drive by’s when we have the longhorn cows and young calves turned out in the front pasture (with pretty black 4 rail Centaur flex fence). People will even get out of their cars to take pictures of them. I don’t think anything about it because they aren’t coming onto our property, and we have a security camera on the driveway. Only one way on or off the farm.
