What? Are you there near your sidewalk ready to pounce upon anybody walking their dog who may take one step off the sidewalk toward your house?
Trespassing on property doesn't apply to mere boundary crossing; rather it applies to either specific intent to commit a crime or obvious potential intent to commit a crime (like theft, robbery, violence).
Otherwise, put up high walls & barbed wire if you don't want strangers ringing your doorbells or package delivery men coming to your door or school kids taking a step or two on your lawn.
“What? Are you there near your sidewalk ready to pounce upon anybody walking their dog who may take one step off the sidewalk toward your house?”
“Trespassing on property doesn’t apply to mere boundary crossing; rather it applies to either specific intent to commit a crime or obvious potential intent to commit a crime (like theft, robbery, violence).”
“Otherwise, put up high walls & barbed wire if you don’t want strangers ringing your doorbells or package delivery men coming to your door or school kids taking a step or two on your lawn.”
Wow! You made an awful lot of assumptions from a simple statement I made.
Let me try to rephrase it for you so that there can be no mistake:
If some pseudo-reporter/shark/barracuda has his foot on my threshold and I do not want his foot to be there or if I do not want him there.....he might lose his foot or more. Is that better? ;-)
In addition, I live in Texas. Apparently you do not live in Texas and are not familiar with Texas law. Texas law says that if you are on my property, you belong to me! That is why we can shoot someone who is running away from the house but still on the property.
I do not have a sidewalk. None of the people on this block have a sidewalk on this side of the street.