I really need your help and input!

skinnymagoo said:
I like the revenge tactics you guys are bringing up. The trespassers deserve what they get.

How hard is it to approach the land owner and ask permission?
Not only that but if you are going to frequent the area at least clean your mess up.

Do what you gotta do man, they have it coming to them.
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I wouldn't call it revenge, if I want to store a few roofing nails, or put up a well marked barb wire fence on an ATV trail I did not make or approve that is my choice as a landowner. Why should I buy hidden cameras, do police investigation and such, when dealing with someone not invited on my well signed private property? You have to draw the line however at causing possible bodily injury (piano wires across trails, etc).

A few flat tires can be repaired at a small cost and conveys a strong message.
 
Canada has retarded laws why can't it be like the u.s where you shoot anyone who farts in your air space, i think it would convey a pretty large message if he got a bullet through his quad.
 
I hate trespassers as well... They once stole my chained tree stand.... A sign saying "warning guard dogs".... ended keeping poeple off the property....
 
There's nothing illegal about pre-stretching your piano wire in your own forest. To be safe, I suppose you could post the land with a few warning signs.
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Actually,if a court decides that the wire was put up with the intention of doing harm to another person,you could be charged.That is why you have to make any potential hazard appear to be nothing more than a normal practice while looking after your property.It is quite normal to dig drainage ditches,pile rocks along a fence line or store lumber that may have a few nails in it, in a pile along your property boundary.Fencing staples are often lost along property lines as well.
 
Don't you need to store your harrows somewhere? The proper way to store them is up side down, so the chisels don't sit in the dirt!!!
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And a very common place to store them is right behind the gate with the no trespassing sign on it.:evil:
 
It is illegal to put any kind of 'trap' on your property designed to hurt people.

And if you think a judge would be stupid enough not to figure it out, you're quite wrong.

I'm really disappointed in the jackass comments suggesting illegal activities. I'll remind everyone that this is ENTIRELY against our rules and can earn you an insta-ban.

The guy posted here looking for lawful ways to deal with his problem - post along those lines or go somewhere else.
 
My friend ran over some of those before its not cool.
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So the owner didn't tell him about the harrows when he gave your friend permission to be on his land?

As to the best way to deal with trespassers,get the police involved and lay charges.
 
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"...don't you have the right to seize their property..." Not unless it's abandoned. You can't shoot at or point a firearm at anybody for any reason. Call the OPP and let them deal with it.
 
I think you can see basicaly the same thing over and over here in the good advise lines. Contact you local police next conservation and fined out if you need o spend the money on a trail cam or will they do it for you with one of theres. Fallow there steps exsactly so when it comes down to chargeing the person they dont have anything to come back at you with or for. Leave the talking to the person to the law so that he cant say you verble asalted him or anything. This is the steps I would take anyway.

AND Yes I know my spelling sucks but so what !
 
Trail cameras and involving local game and law enforcement are your best bets...leave the other stuff alone (piano wire etc) it will be more trouble than its worth.
 
A trail cam pic or movie is not going to prove compelling evidence unless there is something VERY distinctive and paticular to your property in the frame. Also given Canada's privacy laws you should post your land as being "under video surveillence". Like voice recordings, it is difficult to get such recordings entered into evidence if the "guilty" party was not informed of this possibility.

Truthfully, your best bet would be getting the law to show up while the tresspassers are on your property.
 
A trail cam pic or movie is not going to prove compelling evidence unless there is something VERY distinctive and paticular to your property in the frame.
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It might be a good idea to post a sign with your name where the trespassers normally enter your land,so the camera has both your sign and the trespasser in the same frame.

Also given Canada's privacy laws you should post your land as being "under video surveillence". Like voice recordings, it is difficult to get such recordings entered into evidence if the "guilty" party was not informed of this possibility.
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So if you had a camera recording in your house when a thief broke in,the video would not be admissible because the thief wasn't warned about the camera?
 
Hard to deal with these kind of people, my camp has been broken into 3 times. I caught a group of guys on the place, found out who they where via the lisc. plate and took the driver a letter stating I would charge him if I found him there again. The next weeks 2 trees where cut down across my gate and about 30 of my fence posts had beeen cut off.
Any thing put deliberatly to cause harm or property damage is illegal, so all you can do is identify them and serve them notice or have them charged.

Andy
 
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