Another Justified to Shoot Scenario Question

[anygunanywhere]

So Saturday Mrs. Anygunanywhere were out on our place in La Grange admiring our bluebonnets. I spotted a particularly blue patch down by our fish pond so we wandered down to look at them.

When we arrived at the patch I quickly noticed that some jerk had driven through my bluebonnets with an ATV.

How dare they!

The property is not fenced and I know we have "visitors" during the week. The guy across the street helps but he can't watch it all the time.

I'm thinking that since the bluebonnet is the national flower of Texas I would be justified in anyone who drives through my bluebonnelts.

This is a disgrace. What is the world coming to?

Seriously, I am looking at game cameras. I have signs up but you have to be able to read.

Anygunanywhere

[RPBrown]

As with everything else, the hoodlams dont care about or respect anyones property.

Put up a sign--Trespassers will be shot, those that survive will be shot again.

[anygunanywhere]

I know it is aggravating at times. I don't have a solution for you, though.

I would really hate to have to explain in court why I was shooting at a car that just ran through my front yard, and destroyed my mailbox (I just replaced it for the third time in 8 months). Still rebuilding the rock wall.

Even if you put up cameras and reported it, the outcome would be trivial, and your neighbors would just think you were a jerk.

When I inherited the family farm in Freestone county, I would always get furious when the neighbors cows tore up my fence. I was really a jerk about it. Then I got my cows, and everything began to look a little different.

I have begun to look at it as pay-back for all the stuff I did in my younger years.

Are the bluebonnets nice this year? Sorry yours got run over. They'll grow back.

The bluebonnets are a tad off this year because of the continued drought.

I don't care if the neighbors think I am a jerk or not. This is my property. My bluebonnets.

In case you have not guessed, by shooting at them was stated in jest.

Anygunanywhere

[Abraham]

anygunanywhere,

When we moved to our current location, a great many of our neighbors were used to driving their four wheelers on our property on their way to other acreage. Plus, their dogs like to ahem, fertilize our yard...Oh and feral pigs like to tear up our yard too.

As time progressed, we fenced in our 1 1/2 acre yard and gated our driveway entrance and backyard.

BTW, I never complained about the four wheelers or dogs. Simply had the fence installed/problems solved and we still have great neighbor relations.

I appreciate if you've a great many acres, fencing may not be economically feasible for you... Our fencing cost in the multiple thousands.

However, being an absentee land owner, setting up some critter type cameras may be of benefit.

[Syntyr]

Anygun, i knew you were not serious. But I have considered the scenario about 30" down with the post hole digger in this rocky soil here, replacing the mail box again.

That'll do it. Long time ago we had some property in Ruiodoso NM. Our mail box was on a curve. With out fail each year this first time we went up to ski we found the mailbox had been wiped out and the Postoffice had stopped delivering. So one year Grandpa had me buy a 8" high carbon steel pipe. We rented a backhoe post hole digger and sunk that pipe 11 feet down and filler er with Quickcrete. Then fashioned a mailbox out of 1/4 inch plate steel and welded in on.

All we had to do after that is paint it when we went up to cover over the paint transfer from cars and pick up the odd sideview mirror and bits of trim that got deposited in front of our mailbox.

[bci21984]

Texas Penal Code 30.05, "Purple Paint"

Mark your trees with a purple band of paint and that is giving effective consent that trespassers are unwelcome and is criminally punishable as such.

[TexasGal]

Fencing of some kind is sorely needed to keep these jerks out. Even if all you put up is thick posts with a single strand of cable across the easiest entry points. Just make sure to mark the cable with something visible. I say that because I know of a case where a kid on a dirt bike found a newly strung cable the hard way and suffered a fatal injury on a property he had been trespassing on regularly.