My wife and I were a bit concerned about something like this when we left our home for five weeks. But our place is a bit out of the way.
If it happened to me, the solution is simple. I walk in with m semi-auto shotgun and ask them to leave. If they refuse, they get shot dead. All of them. I’m quite serious here. It is raw justice. It’s not vengeance. It is not anger. It is literally protecting my family from an real, active physical threat.
And if they agree to leave, they leave IMMEDIATELY, and I will put things in the yard they can take with them that are not mine. Cops are not necessary for this sort of thing. I can handle it myself. I’ve also not seen a cop near my house in a decade except for when my neighbor’s cows broke through the fence into my yard.
Cops are more for urban environments and to clean up the mess afterward.
Hopefully, it wont be the same guys: "One of those workers stopped by the home and found 12 guns, bulletproof vests ..." :-)
I grew up on acreage and we had a bunch of cows; they all had big horns. The property behind us was developed and kept growing and growing. The fences were not in that great of condition to begin with but the kids and others kept messing them up even worse. Our cows began getting adventurous after they discovered that the fruit trees, flowers, gardens and lawns in the yards of the new arrivals were tastier than what we fed them and what was in our fields. Since they had horns the new arrivals thought they were all dangerous bulls and were terrified of them. The bulls we had were too lazy to go on adventures with the cows unless one of them was in heat.
From the time I was a little kid I had to go round the cows up and try to fix the fence where they had gotten through. The police or the humane society would occasionally show up but they had absolutely no idea how to chase cows back to where they belonged. So they would let the little kid with a big stick and a bucket of grain chase them back home. One time I was chasing the cows out of someone's yard and apologizing. And they said, "Don't worry about it. The realtor told us there would be visiting cows; we think that they are great." That was the only time that happened, I learned a lot of bad words from the neighbors as a child.
**I’ve also not seen a cop near my house in a decade except for when my neighbor’s cows broke through the fence into my yard.**
Well, that’s on you. You probably enticed them with a lush green lawn. If you had a yard full of thistles they wouldn’t have been interested. But you no doubt received free fertilizer from the cows, so I call it a fair trade.
>> f it happened to me, the solution is simple. I walk in with m semi
>> shotgun and ask them to leave. If they refuse, they get shot dead. All of them.
Now by telegraphing your intent on the web you may be left fighting a 1st degree murder charge regardless of what the circumstances really were. Just saying.
The homeowner lives overseas, but a few people living locally help maintain the home with routine checkups. One of those workers stopped by the home and found 12 guns, bulletproof vests, more than 15,000 fentanyl pills, heroin, meth, and more than $40,000 in cash.