On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:19:53 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 23:13:18 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in
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That's pretty much what happened to me with the caveat that the land
was to have "restricted access" - I asked what "restricted" meant and
it was pretty drastic even to the point of I couldn't hunt on my own
land or fish in my own pond.

Sorry - that dog won't howl.

Who would enforce that? :-) Do they send spies?

I live in a small rural town - that should give you an idea. :)


Great. Sounds like your neighbors would turn you in for ****ing on one of
your own trees. :-)

A friend of mine has 200 acres outside of Rochester. Sometimes we shoot guns
there. He's personally acquainted with two cops who sometimes pull over in
their patrol cars to shoot the breeze for a few minutes. Because he and his
wife like to hike & XC-ski on the land, they don't want hunters using it.
When neighbors asked about the visits from the cops, he told them it had
something to do with him not being careful of the direction in which he was
shooting his guns. He asked the cops to back up the story in case anyone
asked. Word got around. No more hunters. What a coincidence. In fact, he's
obsessive about gun safety, but his neighbors don't know that. :-)

Heh, heh, heh....man, I could tell you stories.

My pond is way back off the road and hidden by woods - I had the USACE
come in and dredge the entrance and exit to the pond and did some
bottom contouring for me to improve the habitat - it was a neat deal.
They were just using a small excavator that they drove in from the
other side of the woods.

I don't know how anybody found out, but the evening of the day they
started, I must have had fifteen phone calls from real estate agents
and developers wanting to know what I was building, how many houses,
offered "exclusive" deals, etc.

They were extremely disappointed. :)

We also had a period of time where every day some church group sent
their parishioners out on evangelical "harvests". I finally got sick
of it, so I made up a pentagram in my woodshop and a friend of mine
machined a pentagram lead mold - I sacrificed some old lead jigs and
black powder bullets (get it - sacrificied?) and made up a pendant.
The next time callers were announced by the dogs, I grabbed the
pendant, put up the pentagram in the garage and even before they
started in, I asked if they could come back because I needed to
celebrate a black mass for Satan - would they like to attend?

It's been three years now - nary a one. :)

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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"To the fisherman born there is nothing
so provoking of curiosity as a fishing rod
in a case."

Roland Pertwee, "The River God" (1928)Word must have gotten around.