Watch as a trespassing hunter encounters an improvised booby trap. The property owner rigged up a tripwire attached to a paint bomb. Once triggered the paint sprays all over the trespasser. Posted on 10/28/2016 8:21:32 AM PDT by w1n1
Watch as a trespassing hunter encounters an improvised booby trap. The property owner rigged up a tripwire attached to a paint bomb. Once triggered the paint sprays all over the trespasser.
Leroy Ogin (trespasser), 73, told Deer and Deer Hunting that he had traveled that same path for over 60+ years to his hunting spot, which was an old logging road. He did not intend on hunting on the property.
He claimed to have never had an issue with the landowner, and was never asked to refrain from traveling through what he acknowledged was private property.
Trespassing charges for Ogin have been documented by the state, and will most likely be dismissed after a six month holding period with no further incidents.
The landowner, 53-year-old Michael Condoluci, was also contacted by D&DH, and via email contradicted Ogin's claim. "Just have to say he was warned about trespassing before," he told D&DH.
Interestingly enough, Condoluci was also infracted for criminal mischief and criminal harassment, according to D&DH and the district court office in Luzerne County. His charges will also be dropped after six months, as long as no other charges are given.
What do you think? Is this an effective method in thwarting folks from coming onto private property, or is it out of line? See the trespassing video here.
The one’s that irritate me are those that ride on motorized vehicles on gaming land after I walked in several miles up hill.
I hate that F’n song.
I would think that 99.9% of the land east of the Mississippi is owned by someone.
Assume no one allows you to trespass.
Always ask.
I also let my neighbors know when I am working near the boundaries. Lots of folks target practice around here, and I’d rather not get shot accidently (or on purpose, for that matter!).
It’s Hippy mentality wrapped up in a nutshell.
Is your real name Trump?
Opening of hunting season for at least the 1st 2 weeks can be extremely sketchy. The woods are full of morons who shoot at noise, movement, can't tell a cow from an elk etc.
When I was growing up the local paper always had hunters being hauled out of the woods shot either by other hunters, or themselves and sometimes ended up dead.
I remember one story where a hunter was on horseback and was shot by another hunter who fired at the noise and movement of the horse in the bush. The round hit the rider in the leg went through, shattered the stock of a rifle in a scabbard and killed the horse. The horse fell over pinning the rider as the elated hunter charged out of the bush to tag his “elk”. The horse rider was not amused and neither were the authorities.
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.
The hunter (I hunt too) KNEW he was trespassing. If you want to hunt or cross through private property, you get permission each time. He’s wrong for assuming he had permission forever.
"Trespassers will be shot on sight".
Its funny
I got a Trump hat last Christmas and had an urge to build a wall, so I did, a 3ft high about 400ft long along my property line with a trouble property that draws dirt bikes and morons.
It worked, I plan on buying more block next year, but it is expensive, but worth it.
Idiots buy their boys dirt bikes and think its a babysitter, they live on half or quarter acre lots but think their brat and his dirt bike can go on anyone’s property.
Here’s another song you’ll hate.
As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said “No Trespassing.”
But on the other side it didn’t say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.
This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
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
By law in Ohio the property owner must sign and you must have it on your person to legally hunt, else it is poaching... not against the landowner, though it would still be trespass, but against the state because you didn’t follow the requirements.
Now...I wouldn’t be calling the DNR to my property by any means, but I would require a quidproquo of signatures with those around me who wanted to work my land and make sure the proper sigs and liability waivers were signed. Would also ask they let me know when they will be there so as not to get shot at.
“Trespass is against the law. Something I thought this site was in favor of, law and order”
I have a problem with the hypocrites who post their own land and then hunt on everyone else’s land.
There was a hunting club on the mountain near us that was owned by a group from the city. They posted their land and blocked entry into the land behind theirs. Funny thing, their cabin burnt down and the fire spread into their woods and ruined their hunting. I don’t know who did it, but it’s a rough neighborhood.... Hillbillies stick together, especially when an outsider arrives.
I’ve posted my land, but left anyone who asked hunt. It was my way of knowing who was there in case anything was damaged or missing. Darn, snowmobilers, 4 wheelers and motocross bikers can do a lot of damage to a field of crops, especially a wheat field. If your dog takes off after a person and they are injured, even though they are on your land destroying your crops, you are liable.
My neighbor paid a big claim when the dog merely chased the motorcycle and the boy flipped it losing an eye in the accident. The dog never touched him or the bike, just chased the boy and he tried to take off real fast.
I'd make it a felony to hunt while drunk, and a misdemeanor to possess alcohol while hunting. That would cut down on a lot of the problems.
Want to hunt? Hunt. Want to get drunk? Leave the rifles at home.
“What’s the consensus here?”
I’m with you dude. Only thing don’t want on my property is ATV’s those things are destructive as hell. Otherwise I might be the one out hunting so don’t shoot me.
and setting up a potentially dangerous response is lawful? Your statement contradicts itself. not unless you approve of picking on a 73 year old. that’s not my style.
I agree while “Buck fever” runs high I am certain alcohol figures in a lot of hunting “Accidents”
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That posting may have been inadequate. In many states, the exact wordage in the statute must be used, for example, “POSTED-No TRESPASSING”. :-)
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