tresspasser!!

OK.. I got home early from work today, and was out in the barn, filling the horses' water troughs. I was also cleaning their stalls, really focused on my work..
I go and look out into the pasture, and about 100 yards away, there's a PERSON standing there!! I was about ready to crap a brick, but I froze up in the shadows of the barn; the person walked up near the fence. I then decided to walk out and "show my face" so to speak.. the person began moving away from the fence at a fast rate, and started jogging away down the creekbed..
I snapped two shots of them, because I had my camera out for horse photos.. but I was intrigued. So I hopped onto my ATV to give chase; see, I have VERY bad eyesight, so the person was so far away they could have either been a 50-something man or a teenage girl for all I knew, lol! But the vegetation is sparse so I could track them..
I rode out maybe a mile into the hayfield, and they started BOOKIN' for the property line! I could only go so far, b/c stupid me forgot to fill the tank and it was on E and even a little sputtering.. luckily I made it back home.
Here are the shots; what kinda person does it look like to you? 20-30 something female? I hate to sound prejudiced but they definately "ran like a girl" which I know, males and females run differently..
So, I went home, refilled the tank, and drove a bit farther to the property line; I see my intruder about a quarter mile uphill playing with a dog at her house!! So it is a neighbor of mine that I have not met yet; I wish she just would have been nice and asked me to see the horses, and I would have even walked her into the pasture.. but I don't know what to do now.
They were playing with a dog; but I know that I had not seen the dog with them nearer to the house. So the whole "dog ran away" thing, I would not buy.
Looks kind of feminine here..
A funny side note: she may have thought I was my landlord; see, we are kind of infamous here for shooting a lot, and blowing things up.. I guess I would have ran too..

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Hmmm... strange. If you're sure that it was your new neighbor (or even if you aren't sure), why don't you go up and introduce yourself, and then ask her if she was on your property? At least you'll get an idea of what kind of person she is and what her motives may have been.

Edit: BTW, I don't know why but that picture reminds me of the famous Big Foot picture that you always see. :P

bigfoot in jeans and a sweat shirt :D

JK I don't know what that is! It's hard to see! Really damn shady that they took off on you like that... if I were on my neighbors property and they saw me, I'd try to play it off and make conversation... granted I'm not the tresspassing sort LOL... hope it's all good though and you're not in danger!

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Originally Posted by xdeus

Hmmm... strange. If you're sure that it was your new neighbor (or even if you aren't sure), why don't you go up and introduce yourself, and then ask her if she was on your property? At least you'll get an idea of what kind of person she is and what her motives may have been.

Edit: BTW, I don't know why but that picture reminds me of the famous Big Foot picture that you always see. :P

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:P Great Minds Think Alike, they say

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

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Hehe--can't really tell the gender--it's like that Bigfoot photo ;) Interesting that it turned out to be a neighbour. You should male a jello mold and go over to say hello :D

EDIT: Holy crap--two people beat me to Bigfoot already. I'm too slow with my typin'.

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Originally Posted by gibbrishclown

bigfoot in jeans and a sweat shirt :D

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LOL. At least I'm not the only one. ;)

First let me say that was a really dumb thing to do. You are very fortunate that the person (who you couldn't really see) didn't have a gun and didn't have plans to rob (or worse) hurt you and/or your horses. In the future stay home and call the police it isn't worth your life to see what is up. OK off my soapbox. :soapbx:

It is really hard to tell from the photos. At first I would agree they look female from the hair but the build seems more male. But with the way kids dress these days who knows. Sorry I couldn't help more.

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Originally Posted by AzureN1ght

You should make a jello mold and go over to say hello :D

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Yea Gin make a jello mold....in the shape of an A-K and say your just here to introduce yourself and say where you live and leave it at that.. LOL

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Originally Posted by lord jackel

First let me say that was a really dumb thing to do. You are very fortunate that the person (who you couldn't really see) didn't have a gun and didn't have plans to rob (or worse) hurt you and/or your horses. In the future stay home and call the police it isn't worth your life to see what is up. OK off my soapbox. :soapbx:

It is really hard to tell from the photos. At first I would agree they look female from the hair but the build seems more male. But with the way kids dress these days who knows. Sorry I couldn't help more.

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Kids? that kinda looks like my uncle's wife from the back, but then again she looks like a Nebraska Huskers player/ Larry the Cable Guy in his younger days with a dark mullet... :rolleyes:

If it's a she it's definetly a manly she. That creeps me out. A couple of weeks ago a UPS driver parked in our front yard for half an hour, no package, no nothing. Just tire tracks in the grass, and scaring the crap out of me.

Go over and say hi. Then politely ask what the hell she was doing in your yard. LOL

I'd drive over there and say hello and just tell her that you saw her in your pasture and ask her if she wanted or needed something. Play dumb at first then if she plays dumb back tell her or show her that picture of her.

I know at my barn we had a problem with the neighborhood kids coming by, and messing with the animals and we even caught two girls attempting to ride the horses.

She might be from the city, and out exploring doesn't know that exploring into other people's pastures is a big NO-NO.
I'd go say hi, and see what sort of attitude you get.
"Hey, I saw you in my pasture the other day, but you ran off. If you want to see the horses, you should come ask, and I can take out to introduce you."
If you get attitude, you can mention that you can have her charged with trepassing, and that horse rustling is still grounds for shooting to occur.
But then me, I might have just shot first, I'm not neighborly.
Wolfy

Wow, I don't want to freak you out or anything. When we had a farm (I was a little girl) we would get tresspassers all the time. Usually men, with guns. My dad apparently never grew any big enough to stand up to a cricket so My mom was always the one to rush out there usually with a gun in hand and the police on their way but we lived 20 miles from town. Things started getting really bad, someone was coming on to our property and brutally slaughtering and torturing our animals. Before anyone says it could have been an animal, it wasn't. They weren't mauled, I won't go into detail as this is a family site and its very gruesome. But you get the idea. The reason I am telling you this is because anything is possible and I wanted to tell you to watch your animals carefully, very carefully. A neighbor who we trusted at one point came over with some treats for our goats, nothing out of the normal. She had goats too. Gave them to one of my moms very expensive Bucks, two days later he was dead. No injuries visible. Even though I am sure you do watch your animals because its obvious you love them, please watch closely.
Kristy

I am just too curious to have not done anything. I did bring my gun of course; I would never use it unless it was my last resort and it was either them or me.. but i had it at the ready.
I "think" I have it figured out. Our landlord Mike (pretty tough guy; ex-military, gun totin' probably while he's in the shower) had come back from the woods about 2 hours previously, and my neighbor Joe was on the land with his tractor fixing his fences.. so I bet that the person had hiked into Mike's woods awhile before, and had to hide out and wait until they were gone through.. Mike has a habit if sitting in his tree stand for a few hours, surveying things and having a beer; and his stand is within view of their house. Then after they thought the coast was clear, I was just an added bonus, lol. I am kicking myself for moving out of the barn; I should have just waited to see what they would have done; and the horses were not walking to the fence; they don't like strangers, hehe.
I would go over, but there is no way I can go through their land to their house on the ATV with all the prickers and stuff, and I don't want to get arrested for driving the ATV on the road, heh. Now that I think about it more, their land borders Mike's funny; it almost cuts around the horse pasture where our fences are, and we actually had to redesign it to not go onto their land.. I bet that he/she was just hiking his own darned land and didn't even care about the horses; but Mike is definately hearing about it because they Were on our land. I believe he had some issues with them in the past over a border dispute.. geez, you move into East Nowheresville to get away from people, and this crapola happens!

I am realllly kickin' myself for at least not waiting for them to touch the electric fence!! Now that would have been a real gas.
That is scary, Kristy.
The whole thing that has me more worried was that they ran.. makes me think what were they doing.
The best thing about how this place is setup is, you can see the whole parameter of the house, from certain spots. Unless you're in the woods a mile or so back, there is no hiding.

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Originally Posted by wolfy-hound

She might be from the city, and out exploring doesn't know that exploring into other people's pastures is a big NO-NO.
I'd go say hi, and see what sort of attitude you get.
"Hey, I saw you in my pasture the other day, but you ran off. If you want to see the horses, you should come ask, and I can take out to introduce you."
If you get attitude, you can mention that you can have her charged with trepassing, and that horse rustling is still grounds for shooting to occur.
But then me, I might have just shot first, I'm not neighborly.
Wolfy

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My gosh wolfy lol Your comment
"But then me, I might have just shot first, I'm not neighborly" sound exactly 100% like my grandfather. Gave me a good giggle.

looks feminine to me

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Originally Posted by wolfy-hound

She might be from the city, and out exploring doesn't know that exploring into other people's pastures is a big NO-NO.

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yeah im a city kid...i didnt know that...i'll keep that in mind.

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Originally Posted by gibbrishclown

Kids? that kinda looks like my uncle's wife from the back, but then again she looks like a Nebraska Huskers player/ Larry the Cable Guy in his younger days with a dark mullet... :rolleyes:

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Well you can see I will never be called to do a line up. :D :confuse:

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

I am realllly kickin' myself for at least not waiting for them to touch the electric fence!! Now that would have been a real gas.
That is scary, Kristy.
The whole thing that has me more worried was that they ran.. makes me think what were they doing.
The best thing about how this place is setup is, you can see the whole parameter of the house, from certain spots. Unless you're in the woods a mile or so back, there is no hiding.

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Thats what I was thinking, about them running. When ever we had someone stop at our barn that wanted to see the animals they would always come up to the house first an ask.

If it was harmless the person should have stopped and said hello and explained themselves.

Looks manly, but there seems to be a ponytail holder in-hair..? Not that it couldn't be a longhaired guy..
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I had fired a few warning shots (NOT at anyone or where anyone was.)

We had people coming in our barn looking for tools.

I don;t know if anyone would have left alive, if they were doing that here lol!! ;)
We have security cameras by the house. But not out in the danged pasture! Looks like we'll have to get more, sigh...

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

I have VERY bad eyesight

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Okay, I don't know what's scarier: weird, Bigfoot neighbor ladies trespassing or Jen packing heat with such poor eyesight. :P :eyepoppin

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Originally Posted by xdeus

Okay, I don't know what's scarier: weird, Bigfoot neighbor ladies trespassing or Jen packing heat with such poor eyesight. :P :eyepoppin

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With the auto's she shoots their kind of idiot proof just point at the blurry shape you want dead and hold the trigger.. LOL

lol
I should explain myself. At first, when I took the pics of the person and they were close to the house, I did not have my glasses on, or my gun in hand. When I went out and the person was bookin' it for the woods (and I had the gun) I did have my glasses on :) Unfortunately that didn't help with such a long view; I will post pics in a sec.

But Ed (FF) you are pretty right-in regarding autos.. lol. Actually, semi-auto.

I think it's a woman, because it's wearing the big-butt high waisted mom jeans.

Sarah...that was HILARIOUS! :D

Jen, I'd definitely go over and introduce yourself. Give her/it the ol' "I'm watching you!" You can never be too careful. I definitely know of some people down the road whose one horse was stolen :( Although maybe not safe, I'm glad you gave chase. Make her/it think twice about coming back :) But I'm just crazy like that.

Sasquatch!!!

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

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It's totally a mom-jean wearing Bigfoot!

All kidding aside, I would go to the neighbor's house and welcome them. Then I'd just work into the conversation "Hey, was that you in the pasture the other day?" and go from there. :)

I think it's a woman because I instantly tried to check out its butt. :judge: :giggle: :redface:

dr del

Derek likes the mom-butt! :D
I used to (Jordache ftw!!!) but lately, the hipster skinny jean-butt is growing on me!

Everyone sounds a might bit paranoid. I lived in the middle of 350 acres for a long time. Most times trespassers were just out strolling and enjoying getting away from the city. Once in a great while we would have to remind hunters that they were on private property. Many of the people who wandered up were related to neighbors and were enjoying being in the country, not realizing they had left their aunt or uncles property. Sometimes coming up to watch the animals. If I noticed someone I would introduce myself and get a feel for what they were about. The only bad time was when we had to chase kids off that were harassing the dogs.

Yesh, she was probably just doing that. We have a third neighbor in between us and the "tresspasser's" house, and maybe she just got permission to walk on her land, and strayed off? It is easy to get confused out there really; it is all scrubland in this part (the woods is farther back) and Mark and I went out on the quad last night when he got home; maybe she figured that the horse fence was the boundary..? She was walking along a creek, so I don't know if that is ir is not technically trespassing, since around here you can fish in any body of water, though it is illegal to trespass over someone's actual land to get to it..?

Okay let me see if I got this right from this thread? The woman who may or may not be your neighbour was perhaps innocently meandering down the creekside enjoying a nice spring day. You snap shots of her, run to your house, grab a gun and jump on your ATV. You at some point fire off warning shots (did I really get that right?). Your landlord is apparently the type to sit around in a tree stand, with a loaded gun whilst he slugs down a few cold brewskies?

Hon I'd have booked it too! I don't know about you but where I come from we say hey to the neighbours, maybe put the coffee on and we don't mix booze and guns LOL.

I didn't shoot at anyone! It was on the other end of the house where we have a target area to shoot at; the bullets go into the side of a hill.
Our LL has a carry-on pistol permit, and just carries his gun as a matter of course. He lives in the city in one of the crappy neighborhoods, and so I do not blame him for getting a carry-on permit..
But this person (I could not tell if it was male/female, and really both sexes have the potential to kill me anyway) and seeing a broad-shouldered person walking up to my horse fence, I was just put-off and angered by it. I know of someone local who had horses poisoned by someone who didn't like them (our mare, Cuesta, survived this at their place.) I do not trust anyone, I guess.. even if she fed them something innocent like a donut, it could cause them to colic..
We do live a bit close to Attica prison, and since they drop off ex-cons out in the sticks, that scares me too..
I just hate when people scare me, I guess. We know the old woman whose property the girl was also on, but not the people next to her; guess we should have to meet now.

That is very creepy

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Looks manly, but there seems to be a ponytail holder in-hair..? Not that it couldn't be a longhaired guy..
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I had fired a few warning shots (NOT at anyone or where anyone was.)

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I think it's a woman. The woman's shoulder width compares to the trespasser's size pretty well. Men have broader shoulder's, so a man with the same shoulder width as the trespasser would be much shorter than her. I think without the heavy sweatshirt on the same shoulder width would shrink this guy to midget height. Definately a woman's build, not a hippy guy. My :2cent:

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