Permission gone bad....take a look
05-06-2008, 08:53 PM
#11
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Jefferson County, Missouri
Posts: 7,684
RE: Permission gone bad....take a look
ORIGINAL: Tuco
Bad deal, but it is still your responsibility to make sure you are on the right property. Even if I get permission to hunt somewhere, I check my plat book to make sure of the boundries. Directions and map drawings by someone leaves to much room for error. I realize you meant no harm, but you really should have checked.
Bad deal, but it is still your responsibility to make sure you are on the right property. Even if I get permission to hunt somewhere, I check my plat book to make sure of the boundries. Directions and map drawings by someone leaves to much room for error. I realize you meant no harm, but you really should have checked.
05-07-2008, 07:30 AM
#13
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 10,277
RE: Permission gone bad....take a look
Guys,
Yes, ignorance of the LAW is no excuse. BUT, breaking a law that you know exists based on misleading information is a different issue. It would be like getting busted for tresspassing because somebody gives you a wrong address for a cookout and you wind up setting up your grill and ice chest in the wrong backyard. Again, its one of those deals where one would hope that the landowner and gamewarden would both use a little common sense. 'Nuff said.
Yes, ignorance of the LAW is no excuse. BUT, breaking a law that you know exists based on misleading information is a different issue. It would be like getting busted for tresspassing because somebody gives you a wrong address for a cookout and you wind up setting up your grill and ice chest in the wrong backyard. Again, its one of those deals where one would hope that the landowner and gamewarden would both use a little common sense. 'Nuff said.
05-07-2008, 08:26 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: North Louisiana
Posts: 3,050
RE: Permission gone bad....take a look
ORIGINAL: Lanse couche couche
Guys,
Yes, ignorance of the LAW is no excuse. BUT, breaking a law that you know exists based on misleading information is a different issue. It would be like getting busted for tresspassing because somebody gives you a wrong address for a cookout and you wind up setting up your grill and ice chest in the wrong backyard. Again, its one of those deals where one would hope that the landowner and gamewarden would both use a little common sense. 'Nuff said.
Guys,
Yes, ignorance of the LAW is no excuse. BUT, breaking a law that you know exists based on misleading information is a different issue. It would be like getting busted for tresspassing because somebody gives you a wrong address for a cookout and you wind up setting up your grill and ice chest in the wrong backyard. Again, its one of those deals where one would hope that the landowner and gamewarden would both use a little common sense. 'Nuff said.
05-07-2008, 08:35 AM
#15
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 10,277
RE: Permission gone bad....take a look
Thats why you rarely see such game wardens more than 50 feet from their vehicle, because they dont want to see it getting towed back to the station on four flat tires if they turn their back on it for more than a few minutes.[:@]
05-07-2008, 08:38 AM
#16
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
RE: Permission gone bad....take a look
I would think that game wardens hear the excuse all the time of "I thought I was on the right land". Some of them are telling the truth, some of them aren't, but it will ultimately be up to the judge and I doubt many of the judgeswill go against the game warden's opinon.
05-07-2008, 08:53 AM
#17
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 10,277
RE: Permission gone bad....take a look
Its one thing to have someone offer the same old lame excuse without any supporting evidence or witnesses, but having the farmer testify that he drew the map would put a somewhat different spin on things.
05-07-2008, 10:08 AM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: North Louisiana
Posts: 3,050
RE: Permission gone bad....take a look
If he drew an incorrect map it would help, but how do you draw an incorrect map of your own land?, as the original poster stated. I have chased hunters off my property on two occasions. Both times they came up with the usual excuse, I didn't know I was across the boundary line. I'm sure wardens and landowners dohere this all the time. It won't stand up in court though. The hunter is responsiblefor knowing where he is. I did not prosecute the trespassers on my land. I just politely told them they don't need to come back. I was nice about it. I haven't had trouble since. It's not the game warden's job to prosecute anyway, it's the landowners. If this story is true, I don't know why the landowner would even prosecute, being that it was a total misunderstanding. Something is missing with this story. If everything the poster said is in fact true, then there should be no prosecution. If the landowner and warden work together to prosecute, thenthey are both asses.
05-07-2008, 01:12 PM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,320
RE: Permission gone bad....take a look
Map or no map its still your responsiblity to know where you are and have permission. In CO you could have lost your gun, vehicle and freedom for trespassing.
An honest mistake is by definition still a mistake.
An honest mistake is by definition still a mistake.