I slipped out yesterday afternoon for another try at putting some meat in our freezer before the season ends. Unfortunately, I found J.O. and the forestry fire guys out at the Blount Place trying to put out the work of some of our local idiots… Once again, someone had set a fire near our line, and it had crossed over on to us. It happens every year, so it is no surprise. However it SUCKS!

J.O. has lost a great deal of money in his timber over the last few years due to this vandalism/arson, and it is now probably pretty much finished off our season over there. I am still waiting to find out exactly how bad it was and were it actually came in from. I hate to say this, but it is just a shame that one of these fires has not gotten way out of hand and  just burned down a few of the houses around us over there. I bet then they would think a little harder about doing this crap.

You just have to understand that the Blount Place has a rural neighborhood running down one side of it, and that is where the fire comes from every time. And while most of the people living there are very good people, there are a few BAD apples hanging around too. They are the ones that just hate that someone has something that they DO NOT, so they steal your stands, joy ride their ATVs on your lease and poach deer – Not to mention start fires!

And what is worse, is that the residents know who they are… Nothing goes on around here without someone seeing it or hearing about it. We live in a VERY small community where the internet can not compete with the grapevine when it comes to gossip, dirt, etc. People here know more about you than you do! Don’t get me wrong, that is what makes this place what it is. And it is often a good thing since people around here will do anything for you, and since they already know what the problem is, they will most likely help you without you even having to ask.

However it also works the other way. People know things, but they do not want to get involved. Most likely because they have to live here and see them every day. And when the police will NOT do anything to anyone anyway, I am sure most people wonder “why bother?”.  And we can’t forget that almost everyone around here is related somehow, so no one wants to turn in a family member. So these two reasons together make it almost impossible to get any crime solved, or if it is solved, to get anything substantial done to the perpetrators.

Well, once again, the idiots of this world have made their mark… I sure hope they are happy. Merry Christmas MORONS!

That pretty much put an end to hunting over there

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Once again, the local criminal element has tresspassed on private property and committed grand larceny. The clubhouse has had the one new AC unit removed carefully as well several high end power tools.

I am so stupid, because I even went by the house yesterday when I went to put out corn, and the back door was unlocked and the bathroom door was open. I just thought that since some of our bathroom remodeling was going on this past weekend, that they had left it open. And I did not see anything missing, but I was in a hurry. Ahhhhhhhhhh!

I am so sick of these MFers! They come and steal anything that they can get their hands on out here for some crack money. They have now hit our clubhouse several times, and every time we think things have calmed down, wham! It is so hard to have anything nice over there. And that does not include all of the really valuable antiques and stuff, that they probably sold for nothing, that was taken over the 6 years that the house sat empty. They took 90 year old sconces? that held the original gas lighting, several 100 year old chandeliers, lamps, etc.

They just have no respect for what other people work for. We really just need to get a trail camera with infra red lighting to watch the house. That is the only way out here. The cops do absolutely nothing for you. They just accept it as a fact of life, but that is what they said about the tresspassing too. And I put the camera up to stop that, and lo and behold, who shows up? A couple of criminals… one group stealing hunting time and the other stealing disc harrows.

We just live in a beautiful place that is still plaqued by the common crap you see everyday in the city. What can you do but defend yourself and your property. Thanks Second Amendment!

Jeff

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