Trespassing Signs/Problem Neighbors

[Don McCombs]

In addition to good fences... Good trail cameras. No deniability.

[Greenthumbfarms]

Very few people have any respect for other peoples property anymore. Nor do they teach their children to have any respect. I find this to be particularly true of those who own four-wheelers and snowmobiles. Apparently, they feel that the purchase price of such things, includes the right to use them wherever and whenever they please.

About a week ago I was taking the duals off one of our tractors in the driveway when some snowmobiles flew past alongside the road in the ditch. They can ride there and I won't say a thing. I went in the shed with the forklift to drop a tire and heard them coming through again, louder and closer. Then one starts running wide open. Apparently they rode up to my shed to see about riding on the farm and the snowmobile dropped the drive chain in my driveway.
Now here comes the whole pack tearing around my yard to come help him
One finds me inside and tells me it broke down, they are going for their truck and trailer. I had to look at him and say he has an hour to come get it or I'll move it wherever I see fit. I have no trespassing signs at all the driveways and they still rode around my lot.

The sled was gone within the hour...

[Eugene]

Yesterday, dozer finished clearing the south and part of the west fence line on the acreage. Today I walked the fence line in the mud observing the needed fence repairs.

Round about route back to the tractor I found a fresh empty bottle of peach whisky and the cap in the middle of the pasture/grass area. Line of trees and brush between the fence line and bottle. Hundred yards from the dozer tracks so not the dozer operator. 1/3'd of a mile from the gravel road so not road trash. Not a family member. No tractor or vehicle tracks so not the people who run cattle on the acreage. Thinking horses and the neighbors with horses.

[Don McCombs]

Is littering illegal in MO? Bottle likely has fingerprints on it.

[Eugene]

Is littering illegal in MO? Bottle likely has fingerprints on it.

Most like my fingerprints after carrying the bottle the 1/4 mile back to the tractor and trailer.

[Nelson 634]

Game cameras!

[SamsFarm]

Thinking horses and the neighbors with horses.

I have some older retired neighbors with horses, and when I bought my place they asked to be able to ride once in a while. I said ok and for years they would ride once in a while and it was just fine. Always when it was dry out!

But.....

One spring a some years ago I went for a nice walk, but what I found was not too nice! It was a wet time, and my neighbors with the horses decided to ride (more than usual too), and really tore up my trails, so much so, that I had to walk around all the mud! (I hate mud!)

I was fuming!!! So mad that I went up and sat in a bench swing for about a hour to calm down before going to confront them!

When I went over, she invited me in, but I stayed outside and politely told her how shocked (and disappointed) I was of what they did and told them to not come back!

What really surprised me is how she was sluring her words and was clearly drunk!

Bottle likely has fingerprints on it.

Thats funny, around my neck of the woods they dont bother to check finger prints for a break in and theft of around $8000 of tools.

The bad part is there was clearly a perfect hand print in the dust on the hood of my truck!

Well..... I better quit talking before I get in trouble!

[Eugene]

About a week ago the neighbors were with their kids, picking up the kids after school. I ask if they were the people who had been sleding on my property. The mother said that they did it. I politely ask them not to be on the property again. Another neighbor, elderly widow, was talking twith the group at the time.

Today, the elderly widow was alone, walking with two wild geese on her son's property, adjacent to my gravel lane. Told the elderly widow that she had free access to the acreage. The elderly widow goes for walks and picks up fossels, pretty rocks, arrow heads.

The two wild geese were following her around like puppys. She started to drive to town and the geese were flying right along side the car. She turned around and went back home because she didn't want to get the geese killed. During the conversation she said that she was going to town to buy feed for the geese.

[indy61]

I remember when the DNR were reintroducing geese many years ago.
They are nothing but a nuisance now.

[SamsFarm]

I remember when the DNR were reintroducing geese many years ago.
They are nothing but a nuisance now.

A friend and myself call them sky carp! Tried eating them years ago, Nasty! He tried a few more times before giving up!