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Originally Posted by rugatika
Booby trap your private land all you want,
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Actually even that is illegal.
I had a BIL who lived just east of Millet. He owned a dairy farm. He passed away some years ago, but while he was healthy he did a similar thing.
Down the road from his house was a sharp corner in the road and from time to time the local rowdies would come flying down that road, skid off the corner and through his fence and the dairy cows would escape through the broken fence.
After many days spent rounding up cattle and repairing fence and many calls to the RCMP he got so frustrated that he lay a couple of harrow bars, upside down along the fence inside his pasture.
The first drunk that hit those bars sued and won, and then my BIL was charged with endangering the public.
It's no wonder someone would get so frustrated they would set a booby trap.
In this case I don't think anyone would think these barbed wire traps are reasonable or acceptable. But to me, it's not surprising.
So many people these days think they have a God given right to enforce laws, even those they only imagine.
At this point I don't think anyone knows who is setting these traps or why.
Seems to me there are several possibilities.
I know at least one outfitter that may be capable of doing such things.
I know a couple of hunters that talk as though they might do it.
I know that some anti hunters would not hesitate to do such a thing.
And of course there is always a possibility, however remote that a really frustrated land owner may be doing it.
No matter who is doing it, I think we all need to take a stand against such dangerous behavior.
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