Posted by Chris Lube Lublin on Monday, November 15, 2004 at 2:54AM :
In Reply to: Nosey strangers posted by RDavis on Saturday, November 13, 2004 at 11:25PM :
really, the only trespassing I have ever had to deal with, are hunters who 'wander in' from the property behind mine. I did have a guy drive into my place and just head on back one day. I seen him just mosey on back like he owned the place, and I jumped in my truck with a shotgun and drove on back, and and he stopped and got out, and was getting his hunting gear out. I shut my truck off, hand my shotgun with me, and started walking twords him. he probably thought I was somebody else back there hunting. I asked him who he was, and where he was from. He told me...then I 'cordially' said, You need to jump in your truck and go back to 'the city' where you came from, 'cause there aint no public hunting back here. He started getting lippy with me and told me that 'so-and-so'told him it was a public hunting acess. I racked a shell into the shotgun, and told him unless he wanted his truck to look like swiss cheese on wheels, he'd better leave. He jumped in his truck, turned it around, flipped me off, and left, I jumped in mine, and chased him off my land, onto the gravel road and about 2 miles down pavement, then turned around and went home. That was the worst one. Most of the time, hunters just wander in from other folks places, and I ask them to leave, they apologize and go.
Last year, my neighbors place burned down, and I kept having problems with news reporters for a week after parking and taking pictures of their place on my land. They'd sneak in thru my pines by the road, and setup and take pics etc. You could get a good angle shot from my side. I had to chase a bunch of them off. On one of the news reports, they really made rude remarks about 'the man who owns the land next door' chasing them off (as in me :) Oh well. I wrote a nice letter to the TV station, and got an apology from them.
I have had a few problems with parts coming up missing from a few trucks over the years also.
By Cookeville-Baxter era of Tennessee, there is a house up on a hill, with a windy driveway going down, with a gate up, and on that gate is wrote "if you get shot, its not my fault" That sign has been up there as long as I can remember.
I try to be nice to everyone, but I tend to get sorta beligerent when people think they can just march on my land without my wanting them to, like they own it, and then get lippy with me when I tell 'em to leave.
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