Why don't you just shoot me?

[xxjumbojimboxx]

Or, be emboldened by the fact that those things are non-lethal, so their life isn't on the line, and you'd still be in real deep crap if you used one without a very serious direct threat of violence impending. Heck, there are plenty of folks who would see that as a potential cash cow.

+1 sam,

Potential cash flow.
I grew up with a mom who would sue poeple at the drop of a hat...
Not that im proud of that or anything.
She won like 75 percent of the cases, and she still does it today. Some of them for very big money.
You would think a judge would see a person like that and think, okay, thats enough. But they dont. And ill tell you this. If you tazed my mom on your property. For touching a canoe.. She'd have you selling that property and giving her half... If you dont believe that to be true then you're a fool, and dont understand the judicial system. You may understand the law, as it pertains, but what actually happens in courtrooms is a whole other ballgame.. Believe me ive seen it.

 

[shaggy430]

5 pages about a canoe poking. Epic.

 

[Kleanbore]

Posted by xxjumbojimboxx: And ill tell you this. If you tazed my mom on your property. For touching a canoe.. She'd have you selling that property and giving her half... If you dont believe that to be true then you're a fool, and dont understand the judicial system. You may understand the law, as it pertains, but what actually happens in courtrooms is a whole other ballgame.. Believe me ive seen it.

That's the civil side, with its lower burden of proof.

Do not forget the criminal side. Just threatening to use the thing on "a cocky, un-armed trespasser" could get you locked up.

All downside, no upside.

 

[CoyoteSix]

^^ Good point.

 

[shafter]

Wow.

Whatever happened to friendliness and civility?

A guy and his girl volunteer to clean the local rivers and he's just checking out your canoe so you tell him to leave it alone and keep moving???

I probably would have just went out and said "Howdy. I appreciate you guys cleaning up the creeks and all, I wish folks wouldn't litter.

I notice you checking out my canoe....do you guys canoe?"....


Of course I would have had my revolver in my hand, concealed by a newspaper or jacket or such.


Who knows, maybe they were just good kids admiring your canoe.

I agree with this post. You don't have to let people walk all over your property but there are much better ways of handling a situation like this than yelling and screaming and possibly bringing a gun into it.

I would have gone outside, approached with a "hey, how are ya?" or something like that and asked what they were doing. If I didn't like them I'd ask them to move along. If they got belligerent (no guns or threats of guns) I would go back into my house and call the police. Simple. Just because someone is a little too nosy and a little too belligerent doesn't mean they need to be shot.

BTW, swearing usually doesn't help.

 

[CoyoteSix]

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[CoyoteSix]

Wonder What the kids looked like.



I'd probably more civil to a couple of missionaries than I'd be to trespassers that looked like todays young people.

 

[Sam1911]

An ok suggestion as far as it goes, but unfortunately it addresses what the intruder should have done, not what the property owner should do in response.

We can't control what others do that bugs, offends, or even threatens us. All we can do is determine how to respond appropriately.

When the conversation drifts into, "Well, he shouldn't have been dressed like..." that risks suggesting that our responses might properly be conditional. And that's dangerous for several reasons.




(They always will be conditional to some degree we really can't control. Limiting how much our responses are triggered, justified, or even muted by the appearance and behavior of others is a good step toward staying out of court, out of jail, or even out of the morgue.)

 

[CoyoteSix]

^^

Good point Sam.

 

[swalton1943]

Long story short; call the cops. If vandalism was done, get a pic; if theft, the same. Get a pic anyway. Enough on this. just my .02 cents.

 

[Kleanbore]

That about sums it up.