OT: I just caught some punk

[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?

[AMF]

That's an extremely good point. Check state laws before doing anything like getting mace, etc...lassst thing you want is to get busted. There are websites that will tell you what you can and can't get away with. I think the NRA does that at least in part, maybe just related to guns, but there are some restrictions on mace/pepper spraw as well in some places.

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Actually, that's a matter of state laws, not federal. ...Other states are very different.

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

Yes, make a log. Not lay a log! I had a Meth house across from me and still do. But Portland Drugs & Vice do drive by more often and actually stop and let them know they are watching. Write down times and take license plate numbers. Do they own that house? If not, contact the Land Lord. If you still can't get good taxpayer quality service you should act crazy while talking to the police, make vague threats about those people. When your at the end of your options acting crazy is a good one. Works for N. Korea.

"When the going get weird, the weird go pro"

[tesco samoa]

OT - Evil Genius nice sig.... One of the best lines ever written by Hunter

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by Combat Wombat:

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
I really can't believe I've just read those Last two Posts...

Yeah, I'm alittle concerned too.

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Hey back off, I didn't burn the house down. My point was that by removing the crap housing, you remove the riff-raff.

The house burned down because they were burning old roof shingles in the wood stove.

[rdouglass]

I read recently that someone had similar problems and started putting up signs stating that the property next to their house was a suspected drug house. According to the article, activity virtually stopped soon after and the neighbors moved on to "greener" pastures.

Don't know anything about any sort of liability / slander but according to what I read, it was extremely effective and non-violent.

Personally, the violence approach appeals more to me, but the non-violent approach is always more socially acceptable...

If I can find the article again, I'll post a link.

[sachmo]

Originally posted by Combat Wombat:
Don't shoot then with a rifle or a pistol. Get a stungun and shoot them till they are squirming uncontrolablely on the ground. Then call the police. It's non-lethal, so it cool.

It's still assault, and illegal. You better have damn good reason, and preferably a witness or two.