I know exactly what you mean. I had the same problem and their answer was "its the forest here so it belongs to everyone" I had someone cut himself a Christmas tree out of a 6 foot fresh planted spruce from the fall. Some people use my forest to throw their empty bottles of beer or empty soft drink cans.robinson46176 wrote:This mornings unstructured thoughts involve wondering why so many do not grasp the concept of "private property". I have lost a week this month just dealing with legal issues from "neighbors" infringing on our mini-farm over in the next county. It is 17 acres of river valley that runs along the edge of a small village and everybody seems to think that they are entitled to use / abuse it just because it is there. How dare I tell them that they cannot just go into the woods and cut wood...How thoughtless of me to not allow them to just take the edges of it into their yards just because "they want to".
Yeah, I'm mad...
I have been battling people that would steal my trees, land and yes, even limestone slabs, there for 40 years.
Yeah, I'm the bad guy...
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One youngster, told me one day : " I have learned in school to respect the trees and the animals, his dog kept doing his business on my property, so I got mad and brought the results on his balcony. His father called the police on me. I told them to keep their dog leashed when outside, it is a law here in the municipality. Otherwise you have to build an enclosure to keep it from coming on my land. In the city, we were obligated to pick it up, he told me, but here it's the country, its natural ... natural till you walk or smell it and I do not have any dogs (allergic to it)
Talk about those that believe they can bring their music outside. When I am out, I want to be able to enjoy the birds' songs, the wind through the trees, the sound of the stream .... bang, someone is washing is car and he has his sound system on full blast on tech-no music with all the doors open ...What kind of people do that ?
If I want to listen to some music, I'll sit down in my living room with some music, but I would never imposed my experience on anybody else.
Same with those that put a young one on a VTT, going anywhere and everywhere and making so much noise ... I like the forest, he told me. His mother told me, well I cannot keep him attached to the house. He was trying to make himself a trail on my land and she thought it was ok, as long as she did not have to take care of him.
We have been here for 25 years now, and in the last few years it has been getting better. Around the summer holidays, I keep picking up empties
Sorry it got me started, but it amazes me of some people's education .... R - E - S - P - E - C - T , they have not learned it, so we have to show them.
