Yes, probably nothing to be paranoid about but just take note as you never know, sometimes they are casing the joint. Ask me how I know:(
Live down a dirt road that runs through a cornfield, several houses back our lane, people who come to visit others love to slow down and look, especially when you have a breed that people don’t usually get to see up close.
I live at a crossroad, not usually very busy, but a respectable amount of coming & going.
Most don’t even slow down, but I do see the occasional car crawl past my pastures.
I assume they are horse-watching & maybe because only my top rail is highly visible (next 3 lines are coated tensile) they are thinking horses are loose or barely contained?
Anyone casing the place will be sorely disappointed - even my flatscreen TV is almost 10yrs old.
Nothing much worth stealing :no:
In your case it could be neighbors you have yet to meet checking out the Newbs.
When my barn/arena were still in the framing stage I had a car stop & ask which way the finished buildings would be oriented.
I told them North/South and that made them happy as they explained East/West would block their view.
They turned out to live about 1/4 mile down the road and the only “View” they would have had is as they drove by.
So glad I could accommodate them & not have to rebuild… :rolleyes:
I have a neighbor that just moved into the house north of us. He must have had some family or friends over one night. A Suburban filled with kids stopped by the edge of my pasture, and I could hear the little kids squealing about the horses.
Sometimes, when we have cool animals like horses around all the time, I think we forget how awesome they are to people who don’t get to see them regularly.
This is why my four-year old niece thinks that I have “the best farm”–because I have two horses. I giggle at the thought of my three-acre wooded property being labeled a farm.
I often cruise slowly past a property that I think is pretty or has horses. I guess I’m a Sunday afternoon driver during the week.
When I was a child, the Sunday afternoon drivers used to come out to our area to look at the flowers, camellias in the winter, azaleas in the spring, on the roadsides of everyone’s yards. They got bonus points when I’d have my horses out running around and playing. People would stop and watch me and my dogs and horses playing.
Fast forward to a few years ago when I’d find some people stopping on the side of the barn where I boarded to watch my horses playing. I do not immediately suspect anyone with children or adult females to have nefarious intent. I think they just wish they were having as much fun as I’ve had with my horses all my life.
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two to six unsolicited offers a month … just turned down the postman this afternoon[/QUOTE]
… LMAO… I guess I have a dirty mind.
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Unless that causes them to slow down more or stop…[/QUOTE]
You haven’t seen the naked I’m sporting LOL!
Anybody who wants to “case” my place can do it from the privacy of their own phone via Google Earth. It’ll happily show 'em where to get in, but also the size of the dog who’s likely to bite 'em on the way. :winkgrin:
Given that my place qualifies as a “scenic overlook” in this part of the world, I put up with a lot of the slow-roll. Ditto people who think it’s fine to park in my driveway and unload their extended brood. I hold my tongue unless they actively let their kids climb the stone wall with the hundred-pound rolling rocks to take “selfies.”
HOWever, should I ever find that my place harbors a “Pokemon,” let alone anyone over the age of 10 playing that ridiculous game, I’m going full-Grandma Clampett on 'em. Some of you will have to Google ancient TV to find out what that means . . . :lol:
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I am guilty of driving slowly past horse properties… I like to look. Nothing nefarious, no Pokemon involved… I just love checking out properties. I never pull into a driveway or anything - I just cruise on by![/QUOTE]
Me too. We are looking for property and sometimes when I see a nice layout, barn, out building, fencing ect, I snap a pic so I can plan my own farm. Entrances and landscaping also get pics but from the road.
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HOWever, should I ever find that my place harbors a “Pokemon,” let alone anyone over the age of 10 playing that ridiculous game, I’m going full-Grandma Clampett on 'em. Some of you will have to Google ancient TV to find out what that means . . . :lol:[/QUOTE]
“Barricade the doors!”:lol:
One of my favorite episodes.
I don’t know, can horse owners/riders really judge Pokemon players?
I mean our idea of fun is to send ourselves half broke attempting to ride/care for a very fragile half ton prey animal which may or may not throw us at the ground (with varying degrees of injury resulting) depending on its frame of mind on any given day. If we can convince said beast to do as we’d like and keep it from harming/killing its self along the way, we haul it to events where we spend days and hundreds or thousands of dollars to compete for a shiny piece of satin or plastic and bragging rights or approval from people who are just as mad as we are.
I love my horses and can’t imagine life without them but I also don’t see the point in bagging other peoples (harmless) hobbies. I shudder to think what the price of hay would be like if everyone was into horses.
I am laughing so hard at this… thank you for making my night better.
This so perfectly describes my life, and also why all of my non horse friends/coworkers are so confused by my life choices!
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I don’t know, can horse owners/riders really judge Pokemon players?
I mean our idea of fun is to send ourselves half broke attempting to ride/care for a very fragile half ton prey animal which may or may not throw us at the ground (with varying degrees of injury resulting) depending on its frame of mind on any given day. If we can convince said beast to do as we’d like and keep it from harming/killing its self along the way, we haul it to events where we spend days and hundreds or thousands of dollars to compete for a shiny piece of satin or plastic and bragging rights or approval from people who are just as mad as we are. [/QUOTE]
Actually just looked like a cell phone snap - no telephoto (sp) lens or then I would step up my game 
Great hearing from everyone, very entertaining!
I am around horses 6 days a week for 3 hours a day and I still get excited and slow down when I pass farms and see horses in the paddock. I may or may not squeal depending on how cute they are :winkgrin:
I live in rural Canada so this may not be helpful to the OP.
When people drive by here slowly- pretty sure they are just looking at the horses or the beautiful belted Galloways across the road.
maybe also have a horse loving kid in the car
This is actually a good question:
IF you found out that your property DID harbor a “Pokemon,” and it was becoming an attractive nuisance, IS there a protocol to follow for contacting whatever company created this madness and asking them to program it elsewhere? If anyone can uncover such, please post!
I’ve read places like the Holocaust Memorial and the Ground Zero Memorial in NYC have already been having this problem!
[QUOTE=Russinka;8767438]
I don’t know, can horse owners/riders really judge Pokemon players?
I mean our idea of fun is to send ourselves half broke attempting to ride/care for a very fragile half ton prey animal which may or may not throw us at the ground (with varying degrees of injury resulting) depending on its frame of mind on any given day. If we can convince said beast to do as we’d like and keep it from harming/killing its self along the way, we haul it to events where we spend days and hundreds or thousands of dollars to compete for a shiny piece of satin or plastic and bragging rights or approval from people who are just as mad as we are.
I love my horses and can’t imagine life without them but I also don’t see the point in bagging other peoples (harmless) hobbies. I shudder to think what the price of hay would be like if everyone was into horses.[/QUOTE]
Best description ever. And made me think about online games in a whole new light!
Love this thread.
I live in a major metropolitan area. There is a property with a small herd that’s on a route I travel in a residential area at least twice a month. You bet your bippy I slow down every time I see them out! I’ve stopped for cell phone photos a couple of times. One of them wandered over to say Hi one day and it made me soooooooooo happy!
[QUOTE=Lady Eboshi;8770373]
This is actually a good question:
IF you found out that your property DID harbor a “Pokemon,” and it was becoming an attractive nuisance, IS there a protocol to follow for contacting whatever company created this madness and asking them to program it elsewhere? If anyone can uncover such, please post!
I’ve read places like the Holocaust Memorial and the Ground Zero Memorial in NYC have already been having this problem![/QUOTE]
Your property does not just harbor a Pokemon! They spawn in “random” locations for roughly 12 minute time frames. There is not just one pokemon living on your property, waiting for people to come and catch it. And if your property is a spawning location (which I would assume NOT since it is based on the “popularity” of the area and since I’m assuming your property is not a hotbed of cell phone activity), they still spawn only occasionally. My house is a location where spawning occurs but it is very infrequent and like I said, lasts for 12 minutes. Popular places like restaurants and grocery stores are going to have a lot of 12 minute spawns. Your house is likely (if at ALL! Like I said, my house is a infrequent spawning location. Literally NO WHERE ELSE on my block has pokemon. Nowhere.) to have maybe one 12 minute spawn a day.
Your property does not “harbor a pokemon” (I’m probably going to start using that quote though, I really like it :D). No where does. The pokemon don’t just live there indefinitely.
And yes, you can contact Niantic to get a stop removed (the pokemon spawn based on cell phone activity, so I’m not certain on if they remove those or not). They just sent out an update a couple days ago and had already removed a ton of stops.
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