Re: OT: anybody been busted for trespassing

Posted by paul on October 25, 2003 at 14:27:12 from (66.60.197.118):

In Reply to: OT: anybody been busted for trespassing posted by KURT (mi) on October 25, 2003 at 11:59:15:

Tresspassing is tresspassing.

I put up barbed wire fencing around my cornfields & run cows in them. Perhaps no-tresspassing signs are for _your_ saftey, not a stupid old mean land owner you don't like? Or do you want your head cut off with the wire?

Maybe your ATV scares my cattle?

Maybe my insurance company requires it, because of the unreasonable liability laws we have in this country - if you get hurt in any way, you can sue the landowner & rake in 100,s of thousands of bucks - doesn't really matter what you were doing there.

Maybe with everyone so far away, they've had trouble with vandalism and are just sick of the way they are treated by 'the public'?

Maybe they have some special wildlife or crop situations where these ATV's riding all over their property is ruining something of value to them. Strip or zone tillage and cover crops have become very specialized, you could be costing them 10 bu an acre corn by wrecking their fall work. A few ruts from an ATV trail can start quite a whashout, or compact the soil so crops don't grow, or make a jolt on every round with the tractor.

And even if that valuable is 'only' peace & quiet & peace of mind. It has value to them, and you should be respectful of their rights. If you want to race your ATV around, buy yourself a 100 acres and put up 'no planting' signs and have your fun. No one will mind.

Guess I have a little trouble with the exact wording of your question. Don't know how you meant it, but sounds like you feel you are a god & should have the right to ride your butt anywhere you want, no one should be able to stop you?

There has been a wave of vandals, meth dealers, and theives, not to mention the beer parties & general littering and fence cutting by people the past decade. The problem has multiplied several fold. One of the contributing factors is ATV's and the go-anywhere access it has given bad people who do these things. How is a landowner supposed to select the good from the bad? Gotta keep everyone out, to protect what is yours these days. And NO, it's not just bare cropland. It's liability, it's seedbed protection, it's the enviornmental requirements these days.

Probably reading your message wrong, I'm having a very bad week, but just strikes me as you having the problem, not the rest of the world.

If you owned something of value, you would understand.

--->Paul

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