The nerve of some people...

[WeaverRose]

I was driving near my cousin's place (it has no house anymore, it was our grandparents' farm) as I check on it occasionally. What do I see but a gal on a four-wheeler pulling a wagonette, go flying across the blacktop right past the NO TRESSPASSING sign and down the lane of my cousins' property, past the house site, past the pole barn, out into the field. Curious as to whether it was cousin's wife, who I hadn't visited with for awhile, I drove down the lane too. This gal was parked out by the creek throwing junk out into the creek from the bank, like she owned the place, which of course she doesn't, since I called the cousin and they were home (20 miles away). So I watched for a bit, then backed out and drove out the lane, she followed me and went along down the blacktop the way she came, then circled through another abandoned farmhouse yard up the road (this one belongs to a friend of mine, her parents' place, empty for years) and started back my direction. After calling cousin on the cell phone, he was amazed as well, I thought, why not see what I can find out. So I stopped as she drove past, she stopped, and I asked if there was anything for sale around those parts (she doesn't know I live in the area, my plates are still from the old county). No, nothing, she says. Do you live around here, I asked. Yeah, right there, nodding to the neighboring drug/crack house. That answered a lot of questioins. But if she's dumping meth-making stuff on my cousin's property that burns both of us, what nerve. Big as life, no shame about just treating two other places like she owns them! I'm steamed, probably because we've lost hens and lambs when we were not home, and it just gripes me that people have no regard for anyone else's property. OK rant off. I feel better now.
Have you had a similar situation? And what did you do?

[Old Vet]

Originally Posted by WeaverRose

I was driving near my cousin's place (it has no house anymore, it was our grandparents' farm) as I check on it occasionally. What do I see but a gal on a four-wheeler pulling a wagonette, go flying across the blacktop right past the NO TRESSPASSING sign and down the lane of my cousins' property, past the house site, past the pole barn, out into the field. Curious as to whether it was cousin's wife, who I hadn't visited with for awhile, I drove down the lane too. This gal was parked out by the creek throwing junk out into the creek from the bank, like she owned the place, which of course she doesn't, since I called the cousin and they were home (20 miles away). So I watched for a bit, then backed out and drove out the lane, she followed me and went along down the blacktop the way she came, then circled through another abandoned farmhouse yard up the road (this one belongs to a friend of mine, her parents' place, empty for years) and started back my direction. After calling cousin on the cell phone, he was amazed as well, I thought, why not see what I can find out. So I stopped as she drove past, she stopped, and I asked if there was anything for sale around those parts (she doesn't know I live in the area, my plates are still from the old county). No, nothing, she says. Do you live around here, I asked. Yeah, right there, nodding to the neighboring drug/crack house. That answered a lot of questioins. But if she's dumping meth-making stuff on my cousin's property that burns both of us, what nerve. Big as life, no shame about just treating two other places like she owns them! I'm steamed, probably because we've lost hens and lambs when we were not home, and it just gripes me that people have no regard for anyone else's property. OK rant off. I feel better now.
Have you had a similar situation? And what did you do?

Call the Sheriff and have him do an investigation and get rid of them. It takes time and you will have to live with them for a little while but eventually they will go to prison.

[THETOOLMAN]

call the state police
and what is a wagonette?

[Tiempo]

Call the police ASAP.

If you can help bust a meth house, that can only be a good thing.

[WeaverRose]

He's been busted numerous times; his dad has $$$$ and gets him out, or they turn him loose because he's so sick from meth/drinking that they don't want him to die in jail, at least not their jail. Kind of ludicrous. I do think a call to the SP would be in order, but I don't own the property so cousin will have to make that call. Sure wish the drug king and his woman would just go away, it would be such a nice area without that influence. Plus everyone is scared to go near that road since he's so unstable - no one wants to get shot at. I took a chance going down the lane after the woman, she could have been packing heat. Actually, now that I think of it, it was durn stupid on my part.

[DC_Hound]

Wow, in DC the DEA would have moved in to confiscate all their property immediately - vehicles, land, contents. Wonder if your state DEA would respond to a call? You can report anonymously . . .

[MaineFarmMom]

The call doesn't have to come from the land owner. You can make the call, give them the information and let DEA, the state police or the Sheriff's dept make the decision on investigating.

[ceresone]

After my Mom died, a pickup pulled up behind her house, hooked a chain to a 8' magnolia tree, and pulled it up--loaded it and left. Sis called the law, he looked at the hole and said "Well, you supposed he knew it belonged to somebody?" Sis just said, well he knew it didnt belong to him, didnt he?
I went by his place--the tree had died!
Law isnt all it should be.

[tab]

If it had been me, I wouldn't have contained myself. I have confronted many trespassers through the years, they KNOW they are trespassing and may get blustery but usually they don't, especially when confronted with a very steamed (sometimes controlled) owner!! You had been in contact with the landowner so you had the knowledge to say the person had no right to be where they were. What did they dump? Did you take pictures of it? I always get plates or some kind of ID and make sure the person sees me doing it with my cell phone in my hand. I usually ask for a name. For all they know, I could be a gun carrying nutcase . I have had good sucess with the one person I did turn into the law. I had details and names and an arrest was made, they probably hate me to this day but I haven't had them shooting from the road into my fields again!

[WeaverRose]

I probably should call the ISP, after going over to take photos of what all she dumped. Plus it burns me that she rode through my friend's mom's yard as if that was hers too.
Her live-in's father farms the cousin's ground, so cousin thinks they probably think they own it. But they know they don't. Next time I go over there I need to load up ol' Duke (the stranger-hating, growling, sometimes biting stray dog that lives at our house). Duke is a good boy but really hates others, it comes in handy sometimes. Plus the fact that he's not really mine, a gift of the road, so if he accidentally got loose.....perhaps a deterrant. He lives to chase wheeled vehicles and their owners in a really good impression of a rabid dog (had his shots, he's just acting).