Snoopers/Snooping

We live off a gravel road without much "drive by" traffic. In addition we have a long road for a driveway so fortunately we don't have snoopers.

We DO have a few trespassers around the wooded back acres. They are usually the sons or relatives of people who border our property and like to hop over the fence shooting a deer. It annoys me and it hinders us from our nature walks during hunting season but I kinda just "accept" it as a locational hazard and make sure the kids have on their bright orange if they are out in the woods.

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Would that be the catching of an endangered species? or the endangerment of a human (with a snake?).

I have a first cousin who put a rattler in his truck toolbox... too many tools went missing... after the snake... none...

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On the public road, there are only three houses (mine and two neighbors), but we still get a lot of through traffic going out of their way to use it. We also get a lot of trash thrown out too. The driveway is a little over 600 feet long, and you can't see the house from the road. Can't say that I've ever had a snooper, but as noted above, I get some "visiting" hunters from time to time. I try to make sure everyone knows where everyone else is to help avoid any accidents in deer season.

One other side note on the through traffic: I lost about 6 mailboxes over a two year period to vandals. I had a friend make me one out of 1/4" steel plate about a year ago with a plan to install it once the current box was "trashed". Wouldn't you know it, the vandalism stopped! The new box is sitting next to the garage, but it does make a nice bird perch.

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I'm not sure if it's illegal or not.

I believe in Arizona, if you have a hunting license, you can collect reptiles as long as they're not protected.

I have no idea what the status would be on a copperhead, or what Utah's laws are. Someone who lives there might be able to elaborate.

As far as snoopers go -- I know every car that "should" be on my road. One time, a strange car pulled into my neighbor's house at about two AM and I knew that they were out of the country. I lit it up with a spotlight just as another neighbor, who was a cop and who had also woken up when a strange car drove by when no cars should be driving by, pulled up behind the car in his squad car and then flipped on the lights.

Turned out to be the out-of-town neighbor's teenage son. He was just coming home from an away game for his school sports team.

I figure if it had been a thief, they would have wet themselves.

-- Leva

I've seen some very attractive roadside mailboxes built out of brick and mortar. My father, after having lost yet another mailbox to someone playing box baseball (kids, usually drunk, riding in rural neighborhoods and trying to hit each mailbox as they race by) put up another standard mailbox on a pole. However, he made a nice concrete stand, which was just high enough to scrape an oil pan if someone was foolish enough to get that close to it. The stand was about a foot deep and a foot wide, I believe. He lost that ONE mailbox, and after that, nobody hit his mailbox again. Funny how word gets around.

Same here. Neighbor told me I'm known as "Sheriff Paula" in the neighborhood. Works for me. Folks don't mess with us now that word is out that I will NOT hesitate to confront you, call the sheriff's dept. and give them license plate numbers.

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Just exactly how would it be a feloney?

Baseball bats ? Sometimes the ones that get me are the ones who are stupid or drunk and decide to drive a few feet to the right and just take them out with big truck. Seen that a few times, the whole street.

Never got round to it but one of these days I am going to take a scrap piece of 4in pipe and set it into the ground with concrete at the base and INSIDE, just like the propane tank "guards". I can then take some 1x4's or something thinner and box it so it looks like a regular wood post.

Won't be too difficult to find the car when the ambulance lights wake me up.

Rich

Sounds like a wonderful neighborhood, and you live there why?

fm... I don't live in 'drive by zone'... you can't drive by my place, day or night, without getting confronted. You're either way bad lost, or looking for me, or trouble.

There's an old saying, a fool and his money are soon parted... Is that not true everywhere? Leave an atv out by the road, with the keys in plain sight, and go away for the weekend... If you live on a county maintained paved road, anywhere in the US, there's a good liklihood of it not being there when you get back.

Local fella fell into a sweetheart deal... an acre of land to live on... he put in a mobile home, a couple tiny storage buildings and quickly made it into a little 'junkyard' (as some folks would call it), a treasure trove to others. Little did he realize the person that let him move there, was simply trying to make the bottom feeder relatives that lived behind him, feed off of the newbie for a while. Everything in plain site was borrowed *cough* stolen *cough*, including his new four wheeler. Saw him a few months back and how was his neighboring going on... He complains no one told him he was moving next to a nest of vipers...

Of course, I guess there are some crime free zones around the country... where there are no methheads seeking their next fix. Illinois certainly doesn't have a problem with crime... (Isn't Chicago thereabouts).

If ya'll don't have any criminal elements, good for you.

I know the outlaws hereabouts, and give em the "Ruger Redhawk" eye when I see them venturing near my comfort zone... and the words been out for a while, that that man is certifiably crazy... Even had the sheriff ask me to not be so mean to the criminal element... he's worried about his job security...

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Well we do have some not so nice folks around here but usually with just a bit of talk they can see reason.
I have a truck I bought new in 1981 that has NEVER had the keys out of it and I dont even HAVE a lock on my house.
. No Chicago isnt in IL its pretty much its own state with its own set of rules!