Originally posted by: Swizzler
It looks, to me, like a bunch of spoiled children who don't own any land and want to be permitted to destroy everyone else's property. There are many small groups like this around the country. They think that because mommy and daddy think they're special everyone else should also.

I own 728 acres in southern Ohio and it's almost a full time job keeping the young jerks off my property. They, for some strange reason, think that they are entitled to trash out anyone's property and will get in the land owner's face and try to intimidate him to a point where the landowner will just turn and run away. About 150 acres of my property is thickly wooded hunting area for my family and my friends. Every season we have dozens of 4-wheeler trespassers who try their best to ruin deer season. They spin wheels up and down my hills and cause terrible erosion. One of my livestock ponds is always muddy now - thanks to the 4-wheeler trespassers. 10 years ago my ponds were crystal clear but the water run-off after the 4-wheelers have been sneaking in mud fills them every spring. Three years ago we had a guy come up to our house at about 11:00 PM to tell us that he had run his quad into one of our ponds. I took him back to the pond on our tractor and found that he and three other guys had a campfire going and had cut down several trees to make a new trail. Their new trail went right off a 4 ft. bank and into the lake. This lake is located about 1000 yards from the nearest property line so there is no chance that they <u>didn't</u> know they were on my property. I called my son on our two-way radio and he called the county sheriff. I offered the guys a ride out to our house and much to their surprise the cops were waiting for them. We pressed charges and the courts fined them. Big deal! Mommy's little children got off easy. I'm sure the boys didn't have to pay the fine.

I have run groups off with my shotgun several times this year. Twice I had to shoot over their heads just to get their attention.

If you don't own the property or have permission to be there - then - get the hell out and stay the hell out.

Originally posted by: fidge1
If I lived in your area me and my boys would be tearing up every last bit of that 728 acres untill it was all dirt!!!!no one rides where they r supposed to.. its life

Originally posted by: CTATV
It's Time for my 2cents on this one. Nobody's a saint and Ill say I have to admit i have ridden/do ride on some land without protection but not without respect. For example. there is no public or private land put aside for riding 4 wheelers in the whole state of CT. I am fortunate that my friend owns 500+ acres about 2 miles up the road. We cant ride quads on the road and right between us is this great land owned by Flanders nature center. They collect land around the areas to keep it from being developed like all the NYC people coming in try to do. Now i dont have permission and they dont allow quads but I have been riding through the same single trail i made when i was 10 (now im 18) and never seen people there more than 2 or 3 times and usually they are walking on my trail and they wave and smile as i go by, because I slow down and wave. There was a guy near me who had a swampy river area which was in the middle of the woods at the edge of his property. It had been owned by somebody else and I had been riding on it for years because through it i could get to a corn field which abutted a large quarry I ride in and a big trail system of land owned by O&G (dont have permission but nobody uses the land and its just land they havent taken minerals out of yet). this Ahole bought a 5 acre corn field just so he could call the cops on me and stop me from riding in all the other land. then he went out and bought a quad. I guess its his right but both sides can be A holes. So im no saint but I agree having respect is somthing that most of the youth of america (my generation) lacks. Another problem is your generation who have kids of mine and go suing anybody because they lack any concept of personal responsibility. It makes me sick. There lack of personal responsibility slowly continues to take away OUR personal freedom. Hope this is a bit of a hope that not all the youth out there is mindless and downright retarted like those two in this fourm earlier.

Good luck i hope you shoot the bastards