It’s out of line.
Could have scared the hell out of the 73 year old guy and given him a heart attack.
Doesn’t sound like he intended any trouble.
“The easy way is always mined.”
Well, if that trespasser had been seriously injured, a lawsuit would have certainly followed. And then the trespasser would have ended up owning that land.
That’s the way US civil courts work.
The sound of the explosion and getting covered with paint could have givien the old guy a heart attack
A nice big sign saying PRIVATE PROPERTY would have been good.
If he was warned, he deserves it -BUT- imagine if the old guy had croaked... the owner might be facing manslaughter charges. Would you want to risk that?
Well, the hunter had his priorities right...took care of his weapon right away, then on to his skin, etc.
Would have been better in color.
Trespassers are the most selfish bunch you’ll ever come across when hunting.
He deserved it IMHO if he’d been warned before.
That’s great! What about a modified version for protecting political signs?
Might be able to get sponsorship $ from Depends.
How long was the landowner there in that house? Did the hunter have permission from a previous owner? Did this owner change his mind? I think more information is needed.
I can understand the frustration of the landowner. I grew up on a small farm in New England and we had a huge problem with trespassers. I caught one woman in our vegetable garden picking “wild tomatoes”. We had to keep the livestock in the barn during deer season after someone shot our horse while it was in a pasture within 50 yards of the house. I confronted a group of a dozen hunters once who were hunting together on our property and they told me to go to hell. They had hunted our land for 20 years and weren’t going to change. We even had a couple of cases were people cleared off the timber on part of our farm and started building a cabin. Some people have no respect for other people’s property.
What’s the consensus here?
I am looking at buying 100 acres of cheap land on a remote hillside, maybe build a small cabin on it or something in the future.
Do I allow hunters on it? Personally, I don’t mind hunters or hikers passing through, as long as they aren’t destructive, leaving garbage or stealing timber. What if they injure themselves while on it?
I’d like to hook one of those up to my Trump sign(s). I’ve lost 3 so far. And 2 others vandalized twice at my business.
The following year I went back with a couple of friends. The road in looked the same as when I went with my Dad. That night a game warden came to camp and said the neighbor had called to have us arrested for trespassing. The owner of the property we were hunting on had died and it was now owned by his family. The neighbor claimed that the easement agreement was now null and void. I claimed we were victims of circumstance, as the neighbor did not place any signs on the gate. It took the game warden over an hour to convince the neighbor not to press charges.
Remember the story few years back of the guy getting tired of ‘poachers’ etc breaking into his cabin and stealing his food and generally tearing it up.
He rigged a shotgun at the doorway that was triggered unless opened a certain way.
The trespasser made ONE more trip.
The property owner is probably still in jail BUT I think the prevailing attitude at the time was the dude had no business in his ‘house’.
I believe that action was the start of the attitude of shooting someone in your driveway while stealing your car or some other piece of property or equipment was all of a sudden frowned upon.
Doesn’t matter that the car is/was your only way to get to work and support your family, that was your ‘problem’.
Sliding down that razor blade of life
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