The unmitigated gall of some people is a real head shaker.
My neighbor has sheep, he is a retired school teacher. This spring we were having issues with his sheep getting out and decimating the deer corn piles, mineral blocks and trampling the food plots. Two week ago they went through 800 pounds of corn in about 12 days. trampled the food plots all to hell and made a mess. I called Dave and offered to help find the hole in the fence. He said "we have looked for the hole and can't find it". I took the Honda 500 out and found the hole in 15 seconds. Dave had "fixed" it with a length of 14/2 Romex. the sheep pushed right through it, like a gate. So I got fence wire, some posts had a couple of friends help patch this fence. Dave and his wife live like slobs and of course being retired they have no time to do ANYTHING right but expect me to figure out their fence problems for them and then fix it.
Today, I was out mowing around the food plots. I can't mow because the damm sheep are eating all the corn. The guys dumped a 4X8 trailer load of corn there last Sunday, it is GONE. I went back got the Honda and chased the sheep out with it. They went to the hole we fixed and seemed flustered but headed down the hill where I could not go with the Honda.
I called Dave, I said "I think they are getting out down by Kathy's pond. He said "Oh, we are letting them out and thought they were behaving". I was incredulous. "Dave, they ate an entire trailer load of corn, you have to keep your sheep on your land and out of our food plots." He seemed surprised saying "we thought they were behaving". Well, they are they are "behaving" they are acting like sheep and going beeline to my food plots eating my plots, corn and mineral licks.
This idiot is letting his sheep out of his pasture ON PURPOSE, ignoring them and expecting them to not act like sheep. He thinks they will be staying on their property when the sheep know corn is piled high only 500 yards away.
Grrrrrrr, this is really bad. The corn is expensive, the sheep are not mine and he is LETTING them out of his pasture to free graze on my land. The messed up thought processes of some people amaze me. Oh, imagine this they are Obama, Biden lovers......
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A friend works at a large grocery store. There are 2 slots at the cart return. He's simply amazed they can't keep the small & large ones separate. 0 -
That happened to a local orchard last year that had peach trees far away from the barn. Someone came in and cleaned off all the peach trees. It was much more than 4 trees. Cannot understand it as we are not in a really depressed area that people need the food.JimmyJack said:Ive got 4 apple trees 1/2 mile from the nearest road near my food plots, and someone picked all 4 trees completely in one nite. Needed an apple picker and had to be at least 15 gallons of apples.
There are two types of crop thieves. Amateur that stop and pick some fruit for themselves. Professional, that have equipment and strip an entire crop. These are not hungry people from depressed areas, they market the crops. It is getting worse every year.0 -
mohawk600 said:I currently work in a grocery store while I am waiting to resume my radiology program.......I have to say, people really suck. Retail is hard. People come through the store and just destroy all of the work that the employees put in to make it look nice and stocked and present the merchandise. Working retail has made me really not like people in general.
Working retail is the worst of the worst jobs by design. The customers can be animals, pigs, cads, liars and thieves. Not all of them, but enough to sour you on most of them. The management system of never ending changes to hours and days is designed to get rid of people fast so they never can get any profit sharing bennies or even a raise. You can not have a life while you work the insane shifts retail puts people on. It is so easy to find people that are morning folks, they open the store, late sleepers, they are mid morning to late afternoon and those night owls that love to stay up to all hours of the night. They work evenings. Everybody is happy, everybody has the ability to schedule a life outside of the retail nightmare.0 -
I must have been lucky. After I semi retired I went work selling guns for one of the major outdoor retailers and had no problem with scheduling. Well almost no problem, my part time work turned out to be 40hrs/week for almost 12 years! I enjoyed 90% of the people I dealt with but you are right about the other 10%. Every time I had to deal with that 10% I just thought about how much I was increasing my 401K and didn't let them bother me. Retail customers are just like most extended families, most you are happy to see and a few you just can't stand. Bobbpost said:mohawk600 said:I currently work in a grocery store while I am waiting to resume my radiology program.......I have to say, people really suck. Retail is hard. People come through the store and just destroy all of the work that the employees put in to make it look nice and stocked and present the merchandise. Working retail has made me really not like people in general.
Working retail is the worst of the worst jobs by design. The customers can be animals, pigs, cads, liars and thieves. Not all of them, but enough to sour you on most of them. The management system of never ending changes to hours and days is designed to get rid of people fast so they never can get any profit sharing bennies or even a raise. You can not have a life while you work the insane shifts retail puts people on. It is so easy to find people that are morning folks, they open the store, late sleepers, they are mid morning to late afternoon and those night owls that love to stay up to all hours of the night. They work evenings. Everybody is happy, everybody has the ability to schedule a life outside of the retail nightmare.
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In retail, you can wait on a boatload of very nice people but it only takes one bad apple to ruin your entire day! 0 -
Sounds to me on top of all the listed things they are intentionally sabotaging your hunting.
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Coming from a "tenured agriculturalist" (sounds way more impressive than "lifelong farmer" right?), FCD (and others) gave you some good advice but you seem to have ignored it. Quit complaining and call the Sheriff. Build your half of a "LEGAL" fence and demand that the sheep owners do likewise. Keep in mind that the "legally defined" fence may not be adequate to hold sheep in which case the sheep owner may have to supplement the fencing.
If the sheep owner did truly release the animals to run loose and they did damage the property of others, that constitutes negligence and should be compensated. You should have been taking pictures of this along with the damages to take to small claims court as evidence. When you get into injuring, killing, or even holding the animals for ransom, you get into some very shady areas of legality. Been in on some of those shenanigans in the past.0 -
"Send a bill registered mail, return receipt requested on all damage to date."
Not the proper way to send a notice. Use CERTIFIED W/RETURN RECEIPT.0
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