[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Katchoo:
I thought the good thing about living in the U.S.A. was that if someone tresspassed on your property, you had a legal right to blow their head off with the highest caliber automated rifle you own.



I did a search and found this: Electronic Yard Fence
It's a motion detector that emits light and ear piercing noise when set off. It's only got a 15 foot range though, so you might need quite a few if your property is big.

Better yet, put in some Electric Fencing: Electric Fencing
So far the highest voltage I've found is in the above link (10,000 Volts), although most seem to average out around 4,000 to 5,000 Volts.

Actually, that's a matter of state laws, not federal. In W's Texas for example, yes, you can shoot someone on your property after dark and if they die it's just too bad. This seems to be a relic of the days of cattle rustling. Someone's 'property' used to be hundreds of square miles of grasslands so if you found someone well inside your property after dark you pretty much knew what they were up to and could save the sheriff the trouble of hunting them down by shoooting them yourself. Other states are very different. Gun laws in New York are not very far from the UK model. A few of the wealthy and powerful can buy themselves private mercenaries for protection but Joe Average will be prosecuted and put in prison for years if he dares to even carry a gun, let alone use it.

Other sorts of laws are not even state, but local matters. I'd be surprised if communities in Oregon (isn't this where Atrocities lives?) don't have some 'nuisance' laws for dealing with derelicts and squatters.

Do these people even have the right to be living in that house? Or is it an 'abandoned' property? If so, you'd better find the owner of the property and 'persuade' him/her to get them evicted.

The attempt to sell the horse is obvious fraud. You can get a lawyer and sue them yourself even if the cops won't follow up. Yes, it's expensive but how expensive will it be to install and maintain all of the security equipment you are contemplating?