View for sale: $30,000 New owner of a lake fences it off when homeowners wouldn't pay.

St. Petersburg Times ^ | May 14, 2002 | ROBERT FARLEY

[tacticalogic]

"This is the kind of stupid-libertarian-trick behavior that generates new laws restricting the use of private property."

It results in new laws restricting the use of private property because of the socialist nature of the system. He will not face the consequences of his actions. Those consequences will be allocated to all, and that failure is not due to the libertarianism of the individual, but rather the socialism of the system.

[Protagoras]

and judge should find some way to discourage it

And I heard you the first time palo, and I asked you what you would suggest the judge do. If you don't want to answer I understand, it's always a harder question to suggest what should be done than point out that you disagree with something. It's not personal, it's just that it's an important question.

[Stone Mountain]

Speaking of bad neighbors...

[Sloth]

Nor do you have a right to prevent me from enjoying my privacy by defeating my privacy fence legally erected on my property.

Nonsense. You have every right to *pursue* your privacy by whatever structures you desire (the extreme example would be totally enclosing your property in an opaque structure). But you are not guaranteed *success* in achieving privacy. I have just as much right to build stuff totally on my land to defeat your privacy fence, as you have a right to build it in the first place.

[Labyrinthos]

A manmade lake is not a "natural resource".

I don't recall a reference in the article to a "manmade lake."

[ET(end tyranny)]

Don't play games. I'm saying that you have no right to violate my privacy. You seem to think otherwise. Proceed with caution.

I'm not playing games. You may have the right to build a fence, but I have the right to build a deck. Your right does NOT negate mine.

[Protagoras]

I would fight the misuse of this law, not its existence.

Me too, I was addressing the fact that you hadn't heard of any cases of abuse. I know lots of them. Quite a few from personal experience.

They chill your blood unless you are already understanding that all laws will be misused sooner or later. It's human nature. It's one reason we need fewer laws and better enforcement of the ones which violate rights.

[bvw]

Strawmen do fare better than children in playing around concertina wire. The point is clear ... there are always reasonable limits to use. You can put up a fence -- but not one that blocks the water to the farm downstream. And you can't use concertina wire at ground level for your fence next to a playground. Simple, eh?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Don't play games. I'm saying that you have no right to violate my privacy. You seem to think otherwise. Proceed with caution.

What if one of the homeowners decided to construct a man-made hill in his or her own backyard, well back from the fence, adhering to all local codes and ordinances, etc., that enabled them to see the lake? Would you take issue with that?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LOL!! We're thinking alike. I posted the "Redneck neighbor" LINK a bit back in the thread!!

[bvw]

I won't be the one to stand by while my neighbor's ox is gored, and here there is a ox that has been gored -- by a fence post and the fence between posts.

[Roscoe]

It results in new laws restricting the use of private property because of the socialist nature of the system.

Nonsense.

[justshutupandtakeit]

If the neighbors want to stop this guy dead in his tracks just get the wetlands gestapo on his case. He won't even be able to take a p..s in the lake much less build around it. Did he have a permit for the fence?

We typically see scum like this in action in this area when a news article describes them as buying to homes out from under some senile old coots to evict them and take their property for pennies on the dollar. No damage inflicted on such people as this "capitalist" is too great for me. Any wagers that this guy is a RAT and a big contributor to the RAT party?

[bvw]

Now I've lied?