Thread: A question about Private Property

Your signage. I would turn around. Others might think that the road just lead to another road, and were using it as a Thu crossing to somewhere else.
The signs that usually stops me cold is the Dead End; No Outlet signs.

But ... If you can't see your house from the point were your signs start... Any signage like this only indicates a deserted area, away from prying eyes, to go to 'lite one up and have a quickie!'

Originally Posted by K37

Spike strips in the road, it'd be an invisible, effective gate that you can open on close when you leave or when others are arriving...you could then get kickback from local towing companies as well. It'd lighten the mood a little and teach people a lesson.

Do you want people to stay for a while or not enter in the first place?

In modern times I find that many do not read signs, and fewer observe them (think about the money we spend to unsuccessfully help people observe speed limit signs that are VERY well marked).

Sorry, if you want people to stay out, you need to make it more inconvenient than a sign that can be driven past.

For what it is worth, threatening signs are probably less effective. The legal defenses available to someone who was shot at while driving an open road make these signs a total joke.

Most areas have laws regarding entrapment. Really your best bet is to either fence/gate up or live with the idea that people will drive up your road occasionally.

Some interesting reply's through this thread some humorous

So what I have found out since posting this and talking with my attorney which made things much more clear..

1. It is my road so legally I can do whatever I want, except hamper access by the people that have deeded access (no locks without them having a key)
2. We have to post a sign at the front of the road that states "Private Road" best right above the Street name sign
3. This enforces all the "Private Property" signs down the entire road
4. The gate is a bad idea because it means that the "Fire Dept" does not have to enter, besides all the snow problems. so unless you are keeping something in, gates are bad..
5. The archway is a good idea but it has to meet minimum requirements for the "Fire Dept." so does the road actually.
6. Once the archway is in it does delineate a perceived boundary which makes Trespass much more enforceable.
7. Regardless of fencing, or gates, or boundaries, Trespass is pretty much un-enforceable anyway unless they are hunting that is a big deal up here..
8. The neighbors are all for the "Private Road" sign up front, as long as I buy it hehehe

Interesting conversation all in all though, she said never use threatening signs, just in case you ever have to actually use force that looks bad in court, even signs like "Beware of Dog" can be used against you in civil court...

Than my suggestion is a sign that says BEWARE OF GLEN-I WILL KEEL YOU

I don't know if that will work in Idaho but I'm sure it works in the Deep South:-)

Originally Posted by Brettnj

I don't know if that will work in Idaho but I'm sure it works in the Deep South:-)

This will work in Idaho, All will understand the nomenclature: BEWARE OF GLEN,HE HAS A .458 Win,Magnum with a redfield 16x sighted in at 300 yards,YOU WALK ON MY LAND,you be a dead man walking)

"Trespassers will be shot...survivors will be shot til' they aren't"

"Beware of owner" with a pic of a gun.

"explosive ordinance testing ground...if you see us running, keep up or keep out"

or you could put a "No access road sign"

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Some interesting reply's through this thread some humorous

So what I have found out since posting this and talking with my attorney which made things much more clear..

1. It is my road so legally I can do whatever I want, except hamper access by the people that have deeded access (no locks without them having a key)
2. We have to post a sign at the front of the road that states "Private Road" best right above the Street name sign
3. This enforces all the "Private Property" signs down the entire road
4. The gate is a bad idea because it means that the "Fire Dept" does not have to enter, besides all the snow problems. so unless you are keeping something in, gates are bad..
5. The archway is a good idea but it has to meet minimum requirements for the "Fire Dept." so does the road actually.
6. Once the archway is in it does delineate a perceived boundary which makes Trespass much more enforceable.
7. Regardless of fencing, or gates, or boundaries, Trespass is pretty much un-enforceable anyway unless they are hunting that is a big deal up here..
8. The neighbors are all for the "Private Road" sign up front, as long as I buy it hehehe

Interesting conversation all in all though, she said never use threatening signs, just in case you ever have to actually use force that looks bad in court, even signs like "Beware of Dog" can be used against you in civil court...

Definitelt different in Bama...Beware of dog sings and you get bit, "why were you in the yard?, and did the sign not clue you in?"
However, here you can only shoot a trespasser if you feel an iminate threat for you or your family...the way the cops told me after mine and other neighbors vehicles got broke into thanksgiving, "just make sure the entrance wound is in the front" The city cops all have an understanding with our people here in town, if you break in or trespass you're going to get shot no questions.

Just make sure if you shoot them in the yard,you drag thier ass into the house,spatter some blood on the walls,do CPR so they bleed out on the floor
Just a couple tips

Her words...

Beware of dog signs in Civil Court says,

You know the dog was dangerous, and the 5 year old child that opened the gate can't read,, YOU LOSE!!!!


The "Trespasser's will be shot on Sight" etc: signs in civil court mean, "See your Honor the home owner has a propensity toward violence, I am sure a more reasonable person would have used a different solution" YOU LOSE !!!


Note the Civil Court part, none of this probably would mean anything in Criminal Court in most places

Like I said a pretty interesting talk, and my attorney is a gun gal, I just cleaned up a tested 3 for her in the past month...