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| Thanks. I checked this out. I'm almost afraid to confront tresspassers becauuse you never know what their gonna do these days. It seems like these so-called off-roaders are getting more and more violent in their quest for places to ride. Its a scary world when they start using violence against farmers and the police give them a slap on the wrist. Seems like the off-roaders got awful quiet on this forum since the last time I checked in. I'm sure they'd have some excuse for attacking a dairy farmer (he was blocking a public road across his pasture or something). What a crock.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-offroad8may08,0,5044393.story?coll=la-home-nation
Los Angeles Times - May 8, 2005
Two Visions of the Countryside Clash
· Across rural America, angry encounters between landowners and off-roaders get noisier in a fight over dwindling open space.
By Janet Wilson and Seema Mehta, Times Staff Writers
Ohio dairy farmer Frank Sutliff was grinding cattle feed when he saw them again: all-terrain vehicles shredding his alfalfa fields.
When he shouted to the riders over the engine whine that they were trespassing, they smashed him over the head, he said.
"I went down, and they just started in on me … hit me, kicked me, broke my leg," said Sutliff, 46. "I crawled into the truck, drove back to the house and dialed 911."
One man paid a $100 trespassing fine. Another spent five days in jail. All denied wrongdoing.
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