I guess some background... I'm a deputy sheriff to fund my hunting and fishing....where I work you have to be a landowner or their designee to file a trespassing complaint. If you file a complaint and the landowner doesn't want any action taken there isn't much any law enforcement officer would be able to do. Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
The solution to your problem consists of this...... Climb up in a tree on a heavily traveled 4wheeler trail and hang something odd in a spot where it just catches your eye long enough to distract you then string up a really tight strand of barb wire across the trail. When the first drunk idiot comes through he gets a serious wake up call. Then the second drunk idiot has to drive the first drunk idiot to the emergency room. Then there's 2 drunk idiots in the hospital trying to explain why the mess happened. Plus why the are drunk riding 4 wheelers. Then they slowly spread the word and they dissipate from the property because obviosly nobody wants to mess with mcgiver!!!! Ur welcome
00svtlightning Thank you for your input. Both of my parents are law enforcement and they told me the same thing. I haven't had the opportunity to talk to the landowner yet, but hope to this weekend. Unfortunately I don't think he is going to want to do anything about it. I guess I will just have to ride it out
I'm a little late updating this, but last week, the trespassers called the sheriffs department on me... Like I previously stated in this thread, I've had a problem with people riding four wheeler's on my property and I had a few encounters where I asked a few of them to stop or I would contact the local law enforcement agency. Well, early last week when I was leaving the property, I have to pass a few houses and one of the guys was sitting on the porch, he yelled at me to stop, so I did and he asked me what the **** my problem was..I told him that I have asked numerous times for everyone to quit riding four wheeler's through the property. Things got heated very quick and his ignorant and uneducated response was that they have been riding, hunting and playing in those woods for years (which still doesn't make it right or legal). Long story short, after a good 15-20 mins of arguing, I told him to have a good night and I left. Returning the next day to put the finishing touches on my food plot, I hear someone yelling. I ignored it and finished up what I was doing but tried to walk out and around from where it was coming from just so no one would see me carrying any tools and go looking around for what I was working on. From 150 yards, I saw that it was two Sheriff's deputies; I hollered at them so we could have a chat. Another long story short, one of the deputies is good friends with the some of the guys that have been riding four wheeler's through there (seems like some home cooking...I mean what are the chances that a call was really made to the Sheriffs dept. and their friend got the call rather than calling his cell?) and he even slipped up and said that he sometimes does. He threatened to charge me with trespassing, even though I have written permission, threatened to charge me with larceny (to take, steal or carry away) for taking 2 tree stands off of trees and putting them on the ground beside it with a note saying "this is private property and I want these stands gone", and even that I was trespassing while driving on the dirt road to get to my property...my only access point...surely they have to allow a way to get to my property. I was pissed at this point because both of my parents have been law enforcement for 20+ years each and we have touched on laws and court cases from time to time and I knew these two officers were abusing their power...I told him that right is right and wrong is wrong, I'm not the one that he needs to be talking to and that he is picking sides. Needless to say, he got pissed, realized he was wrong and started back tracking. They finally left...dad and I will be meeting with a long time friend of his who just so happens the Major of the department one day this week. Sorry so lengthy
We have already talked about this phil, I just hope your dad can really have some good input to that deputies supervisor or major. Keep in touch
Boy, just when you thought things were going to go your way. Small time bull crap that's what this is. Hopefully someone higher up can set the record straight.
I am the property manager of my hunt clubs leases so I basically look over the land, plant the food plots, check game cameras, etc. throughout the year. We have had serious problems with people trespassing and it is always going to be ignorant people that are going to do it. The hardest people to stop are the people that think they are in the right because they grew up riding fourwheelers, hunting and fishing the land so they automatically assuming they have sole and moral rights to the land. You must have the land posted properly for any legal steps to be taken. The land owner is the one that has to get involved for any charges to be brought about. Most people that are going to trespass ignore posted signs, so something I start doing is putting signs up to all the entrances and on the paths of the property that state, "Smile you're on Camera" or "This property is under Camera Surveillance". That seemed to help a lot. The game wardens around here are a lot more cooperative than the ones you speak of, the ones around here jump to an opportunity to write a ticket.
I just saw your latest post with your recent encounters. It is like that around here too with law enforcement. I'm from a small county and I know all the of the sheriffs department from deputies to the sheriff. If I'm not kin to one of them, I am friends with them, know them by first name and I play golf with the sheriff. Its how a small area works everybody knows everybody. I am assuming you are probably considered an "outsider" by these locals both police and trespassers. I was born and raised in this area that I hunt and we have people that come from Richmond, VA Beach and other areas in VA that are long ways away that hunt around our property. Long story short, none of the locals care for them, the locals feel as if they are intruding on us and they should stay away and go else where. That being said if we call the law on them they will be written a summons but if they call the law on us if we were in the wrong, it would be more of a warning and nothing would come of it. I know it's not fair but that's how justice is still happening in these small areas. I seriously hope everything goes well for you in this situation and everything is done fairly.