Trespassing?

[abifae]

Where are you gd? Colorado is still sympathetic to house owners who shoot invadors. You still get charged but it gets very publicised and usually let off.

 

[~gd]

Where are you gd? Colorado is still sympathetic to house owners who shoot invadors. You still get charged but it gets very publicised and usually let off.

North Carolina They arrest people and posting bail can be a big hassle, also arrests go on your police record, not only convictions.
I know one poor soul who is as honest as the day is long BUT his girlfriend has claimed he is a drug dealer on 4 different occasions he was raided and of course they found nothing but if you are a officer that doesn't know 'the rest of the story" you think he was just lucky or smart. He has been pulled over on the road many times for minor or made up reasons. He won't give permission to search his truck, he just tells the office to bring out daisy (name of our drug dog) but be sure she gets a treat when she doesn't find anything. He has become friendly with the dog much to the dismay of our K9 cops. Here if someone charges a crime they have to take it as real until investigation shows it is not.and they rarely get in the face of the one that made the false charges (I think you will find most places work that way)

 

[Wifezilla]

Only a few get charged abi...usually in the People's Republic of Boulder. In El Paso county, vermin is vermin

 

[Bimpnottin]

Our boxer lets us know when someone shows up. She won't hurt a fly, okay, she nipped the neighbor boy when he poked her with a stick, but honestly has a tough bark. So, we don't have much problems with the door to door stuff now. My biggest problem is our nosy neighbor lady. Before we got the dog and about a year after we moved in here, she just waltzed into the porch and into the kitchen. It's not like there was only the one door, she had to go through the screen door, door, and then the kitchen door. Her answer to just WALKING into my house, was the people who used to live here let her! Ok, seriously, I know that we bought the house from an old couple in their almost 90s and she probably did look in on them, but hey, we were 27 and obviously not senile and in need of her help.

And then, my Brother-in-law and my husband are military, and both have shooting awards, so they are target practicing with their pistols in our shooting area - totally safe and into a berm, so there wouldn't have been any stray shots going anywhere. Neither one of them is hunters, so we honestly didn't know it was gun deer season. She marches over and into the house again, and tells us we're going to kill someone. She really didn't like it when I told her to sit down and that I would call the sheriff and she could explain it to him when he got there, because there is no law about target shooting during deer season. She was just ticked that we might scare off the deer. Loved the look on her face when my 6'3" built BIL came in and apologized to her and asked he could escort her off the property.

We haven't been too friendly since then. It's been 12 years (ok, I hold a grudge ) but I'd rather have the friendly church people than my nosy neighbor, ANY day!

 

[tinkarooni]

Oh boy we are so so sick of trespassers. We live on 10 acres about 1200 feet off the road. We are in the middle of the Marcellus Shale gas drilling, not a good situation at all, if we had ever known 8 years ago what was coming we would not be here.

Anyway they are constantly coming up to our house trying to get us to sign legal documents, they want easements, the right to enter our property to survey or do seismic testing. That's no big deal they say, the explosives are very small....no I'm not kidding. One day we actualy found that a section in our woods had been cleared and they had run all sorts of electrical wires through. We have called the police on more than one occasion and have made it clear the next person who comes onto our property wil be very sorry. We also got a Komondor puppy and are training her to protect the kids from all trespassers. Komondors are known for pinning down strangers until help arrives. So they won't actually eat them, just frighten them a bit.

 

[tinkarooni]

Oh I just remembered a funny one too. We bought our ten acres from a 100 acre parcel that was subdivided. It just happens that the farm driveway was on our lot so we continued it, put a lot of $$$ into it and it is now our driveway. Well one of the big selling points of these lots was the view, at the top of our driveway. As everyone moved in they had to install their own drive.

Well when we were building our house 8 years ago the woman who bought the lot next to us decided to sell her lot, she had not installed a driveway. One day I was leaving and met her at the bottom of the drive. She had brought two cars of people to see her property for sale and asked me to please get off the driveway so she could get by. WHAT?? I told her very nicely to get out and not come back. She was so mad I even pulled closed the old farm gate, on my property and locked it with a padlock I had in my car so she couldn't get up.

Wait it gets better, a week later her realtor installed a for sale sign, 1000 feet off the road up my driveway in my yard. In order to entice people to see the view they purposely put the sign up there so that unsuspecting buyers thought they could drive up. We called the realtor and nicely told them to move their sign, I had knocked it down so folks didn't see it and come up. Two days later the sign was up in the same place again,
This time I took the sign down, dragged it into the woods on her property, called the realtor and told him I had burned it. He went nuts threatening to sue me for damage to his business property and that it cost $100.00 blah blah blah, I told him if it was so valuable he shouldn't have left it in my yard...again. She sold and the lot remains empty but the new owner is nice, I should tell him about the sign....I know it's still out there.

 

[Buster]

I now have 4 LGDs on my entirely fenced in property. The only thing I worry about trespassers now is whether they will be seriously injured.

 

[~gd]

Oh boy we are so so sick of trespassers. We live on 10 acres about 1200 feet off the road. We are in the middle of the Marcellus Shale gas drilling, not a good situation at all, if we had ever known 8 years ago what was coming we would not be here.

Anyway they are constantly coming up to our house trying to get us to sign legal documents, they want easements, the right to enter our property to survey or do seismic testing. That's no big deal they say, the explosives are very small....no I'm not kidding. One day we actualy found that a section in our woods had been cleared and they had run all sorts of electrical wires through. We have called the police on more than one occasion and have made it clear the next person who comes onto our property wil be very sorry. We also got a Komondor puppy and are training her to protect the kids from all trespassers. Komondors are known for pinning down strangers until help arrives. So they won't actually eat them, just frighten them a bit.

Do you own the mineral rights? That can make a huge difference.
When I brought my little farmette and asked the lawyer about the mineral rights he thought I was nuts. I pointed out that there was coal down there for sure since it came up with the well boring and that there was a old closed copper,silver,gold mine within a 1/4 mile of my place. He wanted extra to do the research until I pointed out that he advertised a title search for $100 and told him that a title included mineral rights ( It is nice to know a little law )
Turns out the mineral rights were owned by a Coal Company that went out of business in 1941 now they realize there is gas in that formation ( the same gas that exploded in the coal mine and put them out of business along with 43 miners and 55 mules ) But I don't own the mineral rights.

 

[gettinaclue]

Not to many trespassers out my way, but I do get them. I've had a meat guy and a meat lady show up. They were nice and respectful and left when asked politely to do so.

I've also had a church lady show up. I was clearing a flower bed a few years ago and a big ol' van pulled up in my drive way and a young lady got out - maybe 16 or 17? I told her I was already a member of a church, but thanks for stopping by and I hoped she enjoyed the beautiful day. She walked back to the van and they backed out of the driveway. The van paused and the driver waived before they went around the curve. I think it was her dad driving?

We also have a fairly good portion of our land that's wooded and a stream/creek runs down the bottom of the hill out back. All of us neighbors keep a walking path kept up to enjoy (our properties adjoin and the walking path is pretty long). But I can't really say I consider them trespassers. More like sharing land between neighbors for mutual enjoyment.

I did have a problem with one of my neighbors giving permission to one of their friends to camp on our land. The had talked to us about the campsite (they had it there before we bought the property when it was still just woods). We told them it was fine for it to be there, just to let us know when it was going to be used. Well, apparently they forgot or whatever and hubby and I didn't know they were there and we...uh...had a romantic moment outside...and think they may have seen us (how they kept from screaming I dont know). They haven't been back since and the campsite is now overgrown

The only thing that really ticks me off is the deer hunters. I mention them specifically since I've never gotten any other kind LOL They track the deer through my yard and never ask. My land is posted very clearly. I'll just look up from doing something in the yard, and some strange man is lurking on my property line with a gun and my kids in the yard (happened more than once). I told one to put the word out that if I ever caught another one, I was going to put a bullet in his a** with a quickness.

Last year, I didn't see a single hunter.

 

[Icu4dzs]

We have a sign posted at my farm that reads " This farm is protected by Smith and Wesson and G*d. If you come here uninvited, you may meet them all.".

It seems to get the point across quite well.

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