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Originally Posted by brianr
De captain threads are like amazing pilot episodes that don’t get picked up
Word.
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Originally Posted by bundy5
Don't just put a rope across your driveway put a gate.
I have two driveways and gates have been on the project list for nearly a year. It's kind of an expensive project since we want gates w/ automatic openers. It's on the list for this summer.
All,
Great replies.
Sorry for the slow update. I had some more important (completely unrelated) issues come up over the weekend so this kind of got brushed aside.
I got up Monday morning, forgot everything you guys wrote, and decided to go talk to the old guy and tell him he needed to bring my rocks back. No idea why, I hadn't really even considered that an option but it occurred to me while driving Monday morning and 10 minutes later I was knocking on his door. It was almost 11am and his wife answered the door. **** me. She could have passed for a 105 yrs old, hunched over at the waist, shuffling along in a 30 yr old house dress. I asked to speak to her husband and she said he was still sleeping. At that point I had to explain that I was there because her husband was stealing my rocks and I wanted them back. **** me.
She assured me he probably didn't realize he was on private property and it was a mistake. She'd give him my message.
30 minutes later he showed up over at my place to return my rocks. He had probably 10 rocks in the back of his side by side. The one pile of rocks that he took was probably a ton of rocks, not to mention all of the other rocks he gathered along the driveway.
He assured me that was all the rocks he took, apologized, and said he wouldn't do it again. I know he took 20-30x times as many rocks as he returned. In my defense, I have found in the past when dealing with the poachers, encroachers, and trespassers that once I made a stand the problems largely went away. I'm hoping for the best here.
When I went to see him on Monday morning I was actually hoping to run into his son first. His son has a house next door and I thought it was probably his son (the kid/grandson/wheelman) that was involved. The son wasn't around. I think I'll probably wait and speak to the son in person as opposed to emailing him. I am going to talk to him about it.
I don't want to involve the law unless there's continued problems.