I do own that little piece of property along this part of the lake. And I do not recall posting a sign welcoming the public to use my back yard for feeding the ducks or geese…which I do not want in my yard and you shouldn’t be feeding anyway.
I do not recall posting a sign inviting everyone to come on in and set up a picnic spot to drink and party. And there is NO sign stating it to be a public boat launch or fishing spot. This is MY yard, My house and I paid for it and continue to pay property taxes on it.
You wanna go out on the lake, go ahead, over on the other side. You wanna go fishing, go ahead, over on the other side of the lake…not in my back yard. And if you wanna get your ‘drunk on’ and party, go ahead, over on the other side of the lake, that which IS for public use. And as I’ve already said, you just shouldn’t be feeding the ducks and geese… they’ll survive on their own.
I have private property signs up and no trespassing signs as well… I should check again though because they are apparently in another language that no one seems to understand.
My my dock is obviously not in the best shape and I do not want somebody, or their kid, going out on it and hurting themselves. Why is it people have no common sense anymore…? Private property is private… that means not for the general public’s use. I don’t want to be held responsible when somebody gets hurt on my property, especially when they do not have permission to be there in the first place.
I like my privacy and my own personal space… that’s why I bought this property in the first place. So everyone without permission… please stay outta my backyard and off my property… or anyone’s property that is not yours. —Lakefront property owner
This article appears in May 6-12, 2010.
o.p., anyone who owns land in this really fucked up province, only ow 1 inch of soil.seriously, 1 fucking inch deep.and no, no one can own water, just the land under it, 1 fucking inch. i found this out awhile back, and was fucking shocked to hear this. what a fucking rip off.
so party at your place in another words yea baby 🙂
Call the cops
You could put up a fence. An electric one! Then watching people trespass would become entertainment rather than frustration!! To make it even more entertaining, have the fence go into the water.
I think the land act states that you can’t own 15 m. in from a shoreline of fresh, salt or brackish waters, or restrict access to a shoreline.
Like others said, put up a fence and start asking them to leave/calling the cops when they invade your property.
You care enough to bitch but you don’t bother to put up the name or location of the lake you are speaking about. How are we to know which lake to stay away from unless we stumble upon the foreign language trespassing signs you speak of.
Put up no trespassing signs. If people come on your property, politely ask them to leave. If they don’t, call the police.
OP, the two biggest oxymorons these days are “common sense” and “common courtesy”. Put your trust in electric fencing, a Franchi SPAS 12 gauge and a German shepherd named Rommel before depending on your fellow citizens to respect anything that is not theirs.
I don’t know why people no longer respect boundaries. I have a similar problem–only with kids. They gather to play in my yard, which wouldn’t be a problem, if it wasn’t at 8:00 in the morning on Sunday when I want to sleep in. As well, they help themselves to anything that interests them, and then, if I don’t notice it right away, the bi-law patrol is hanging a warning or a ticket on my door. Sometimes they bring their dogs so I have barking and poop to content with. I have replaced the sparkplug to my lawnmower three times, because one of them keeps trying to figure out how to remove it, so he can put it in his lawnmower. They have broken my barbecue, ‘borrowed’ bikes, tore down my laundry and on and on. It doesn’t matter how many times I speak to them–when they are intent on their play, they remember nothing.
Yet, my neighbour rarely has a problem simply because she has a fence. I mean, it would be no problem for them to lift the latch and walk into her yard, but the fence itself seems to make all the difference. It seems no fence indicates a lack of concern–it’s almost like an invitation. A fence makes them stop long enough to remember they shouldn’t be in that yard.
We used to have people doing that to our property in NB. The threat wasn’t that people were having a good time, it was that they were having fires and breaking glass and stealing from our cabin so they would have things to burn. Then my dad went down on his 3 wheeler one night in the middle of the night, and scared them off. Not sure if he had his hunting gun or not, but I’m sure it would have helped. Anyway, confront them and ask them to leave, and if they don’t call the cops. Don’t just complain about it on here, that’s not going to stop anything.
Sarey is right. You DO NOT own your lake frontage. Hell, you don’t even own within 12m of it. In NS anyone can access any water way at any time for the purpose of fishing (in season only), swimming or use of a non-motorized watercraft. My ex used worked for Transport Canada in the Navigable Waters program and trust me, there is NOTHING you can do that will stand up in a court of law when it comes to the accessability of any body of water. You can limit the access to your acutal property, but not the water.
German shepherd named Rommel i like that idea there ivan.”in the abscence of orders go out and kill something,”great man he was, respected highly by his own troops and the enemies troops.one fierce warrior or son of a bitch as patton would say
Your new avatar put the thought in my mind Sixxes. And I’ve always had a high regard for the Desert Fox. I think Dennis Hopper’s rotty in True Romance was named Rommel.
ivan what are your thoughts of montgomery.i think hes highly overrated, while the british general you rarely hear of , william slim, who fought in burma was an exceptional general.
About the only thing people can agree on about Monty was what a detestable little bastard he was. He’s lambasted for being too plodding and cautious, yet his one attempt at a truly daring operation, Market Garden, was a disaster. His fixation with crossing the Rhine caused him to ignore securing the approaches to Antwerp in September, which cost the Canadians heavily in the fall and winter of 1944. His slowness in Normandy is often compared unfavorably to Bradley and Patton, but he was going up against the I SS Panzercorps, probably the best equipped and trained units in the German orbat. Patton did fine in the open fields of France but got stupidly bogged down trying to take Metz. Bradley, the GI’s general, got bogged down in the Huertgen forest, for no better reason than that he detested Montgomery. A real sewing circle.
I agree with you100 % about Bill Slim. Check out “Quartered Safe Out Here” by George MacDonald Fraser. It’s his own account of being a young squaddie in “The Forgotten Theatre” Every bit as good as his fiction.
For the rest of you, take copious notes, there is going to be a quiz.
i will check i ou.first however i must start ‘das reich’story of the 2nd ss division.by james lucas.i have a map of russia so i plan on tracing their route.i just need a map of the west of europe.
here is a book you may be interested in,if you haven’t already read it, its called.’waffen-ss’hitler’s elite guard at war 1939-45 by george h stein.it is directed more towards the actual battle formations, then their political use.
I had to order my copy of Stein from Cornell University Press back in the mid 80’s. First rate. I took several German history classes at Dal from a superb professor who passed away a couple of years ago who recommended Stein highly .I liked Lucas’s book. A former British officer named Michael Reynolds has written extensively on the Waffen SS. “Steel Inferno” about the I SS Pz Korps in Normandy,and a follow up “Storm of Steel” which takes it through the bulge and the end of the war. Exceptionally in-depth and he manages to walk the line between blanket condemnation and naive apologetics.
Sorry, that should have been “Men Of Steel” .
And next week, the selection for Ivan’s Gulag Book Club is “Eat, Pray Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert.
i love this thread, military history, book selections. i picked up ww z today ivan but the boy is going to read it first
Any book where the author cites his three main influences as being George Romero, Studs Terkel and General Sir John Hackett is definitely from way out there. I loved it. There’s talk of a movie in development. Hope the boy & yourself find it a hoot.
Most of my life, I’ve never ventured into the other side of war–peace marches and all that. But lately, I find myself watching the history channel’s re-enactments of historic battles and such, and I am fascinated. In fact, the reason I favoured the Gladiator movie was its fascinating and thrilling opening battle scene. I wonder if my drop in estrogen has something to do with this. = )
well it’s the big T me darlin kim that controls the horny
Oh christ, I’m celibate…you mean I have to re-battle myself all over again?! That’s a re-enactment I don’t want to witness = p
pacing, pacing…
I’d be really interested in hearing about any law that says you can’t own within 12 metres of lake (water) frontage. That’s total news to me, and I’m a keen angler. Fact is you can own right up to the shoreline, plain and simple.
Having said that, and I’m not saying the OP isn’t telling the truth for his lake and his property, there are plenty of situations in the province where I guarantee a lot of people are lying through their teeth about what they own. Take all those narrow strips of land between roads and shoreline, one example being Waverley Road. How much you want to bet that some of those little strips that have steps and docks and are posted as Private don’t belong to individuals at all?
For my part, if enough legit and illegit waterfront property owners are pricks about things like rights of access for fishing or recreational activity under the Protection of Property or Angling Acts, I’ll avoid their properties…but that won’t stop me from hovering 50cm away from their precious land in a bassboat or a canoe while I fish. If I know of some particular assholes that happen to front on prime fish territory I may stay there for hours…
What goes around comes around. For what it’s worth my folks own some nice land along a river, and they’re cool with anglers or hikers cruising through. No harm done and everyone’s better for it. Too bad not everyone is that tolerant.
I used to live on a main street in buttfuck, NS and every Canada day, people seemed to think my front yard (and my driveway for that matter) was public property. We generally didn’t mind because Canada day is a pretty big deal there, and it’s all in good fun — until one year. When I was moving on a July 1st a few years back, we had to bring a van in to get my stuff and had permission from the cops to use the closed road (the parade wasn’t starting for 20 minutes or so and we jst wanted to swing into the driveway) and the people who parked their asses in our driveway and set up their lawn chairs and shit ACTUALLY tried to bitch us out and tell us we couldn’t park in our own driveway. We literally had to start inching into said driveway to get them to stfu and move. FFS produce a deed to the land than THEN you can tell us we can’t park there! It wasn’t like we could’ve parked on the street (no parking PLUS tons of people lining the streets).
The entitlement of some people, OP, kills me sometimes.
Good, Good Kim. Embrace the Dark Side. If it weren’t for History Telly I’d have to get a life… and that would be downright nutty.
I love feeding ducks and geese! Where is this lake you speak of?
Never feed wild ducks and geese! It’s really bad for them and they could become a nuisance on top of getting sick (some morons feed them bad shit). Public gardens, etc are different because their wildlife is often provided for in the winter months… but in the wild it’s a big no-no…
And I’m pretty sure that on private lakes you own your waterfrontage… and access belongs to you. The water, on the other hand…. it pure provincial property. It’s funny, the Feds have jurisdiction for anything on the surface (boats), and the province owns any of the contents of the lake (fish and plants and water). Weird, huh?