Author Topic: Is it right  (Read 10534 times)

OhLaLa

  • Joined Sep 2010
Re: Is it right
« Reply #30 on: August 24, 2011, 10:13:51 am »
I would never go onto someones land without permission. When I was a kid we scrumped apples and boy were we in trouble when we got caught. I learnt my lesson. Picking wild fruit growing adjacent to a footpath is ok but going onto someones land to take it is not.

My last place had a public footpath alongside one field, separated by hedge. The one time I caught someone walking on my side of the hedge so I called her over and pointed out that she was on private land and there was a footpath. Her reply? "But it has got muddy puddles" (yes, she had wellies on).

Next, I put new gates on to show that the field was in use (neighbours sheep and my horses) and not abandoned. I chained the gates shut for security, but then my NEIGHBOUR undid the gates by lifting them off the hinges (old bag) and left them wide open, so I chained the hinge side up too and chucked her sheep off my land (it wasn't the first time she had proved to be a pain in the ass).

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Entering this field is free. 
The bull will charge you later.

I love this, I'd put that sign up regardless of having any stock in there!

waterhouse

  • Guest
Re: Is it right
« Reply #31 on: August 24, 2011, 03:49:38 pm »
For the accolade of the worst piece ever, I'm not sure I give it equal billing with the hunting act...

Depends on your point of view.  As a way of stopping hunting it has lots of loopholes and is hard to enforce, especially by a hard pressed police force with only one landrover in the county (which is operated by a rural special constable whose full-time job is as a gamekeeper).  Around here the hunt has more subscribers and a way higher turnout than before the ban.  But then no-one else can offer the surreal experience flushing the coverts alongside Luton airport with a backdrop of Easyjet 737s landing 200m away.

shearling

  • Joined Mar 2011
Re: Is it right
« Reply #32 on: August 24, 2011, 08:05:23 pm »
WEll so far no obvious visitors and no helping from the offer. Maybe need to wait until Sunday

 

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