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08/10/2007, 12:49 PM
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Keeping people from driving through your yard
I just bought a house with my wife about a month ago. We have a nice sized yard on a corner lot. I came home the other day to see a nice peel out mark through the corner of my yard. Obviously someone didn't want to take the time to slow down to make the turn (no stop sign) and just gunned it through the yard. There are easements from the edge of the road so I can't put anything up to the road. Any ideas?
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08/10/2007, 12:58 PM
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Contact the city council?
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08/10/2007, 01:01 PM
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Box 'o nails?
Landmines? |
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08/10/2007, 01:03 PM
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Evesments or not you are allowed to use the property as you wish. They just have the right to take it away of they want. Check with your county, we just put decorative ballards on a property just like yours for the very same reason. We had to leave a maxium of 1 foot between the pavement and the ballards.
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08/10/2007, 01:55 PM
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hammer some thick nails through a plank of wood a leave it nail side up on the corner
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08/10/2007, 01:55 PM
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we put in a "raised bed" in the corner of a lot when i was a landscaper. the large concrete cast blocks stopped most traffic from cutting the corner. but there were still those that used the wall spin them, or in once case bounce them, around the corner.
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08/10/2007, 03:15 PM
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08/10/2007, 03:49 PM
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08/10/2007, 04:30 PM
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a few large boulders
you can blend them into the landscape, plant around them friend did that, its so nice to hear the scraping and destruction of a stranger's car when they ignore property lines and hit something they shouldnt
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08/10/2007, 04:32 PM
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08/10/2007, 04:36 PM
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Our neighbors down the street are the top of a T. After several months of the same problem they pounded rebarb in the ground and put reflectors on them.
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08/10/2007, 04:54 PM
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I don't know about where you guys are but there have been several cases where people have done stuff like is being sugested and people got hurt and the owner who placed those dangerous devices were found liable in the courts.
As an example a teenager was killed when he was speeding down and unfamiliar road and hit a brick mailbox. He was ejected from the car. The parents sued the homeowner for placing the mailbox so close to the road that it proved a hazard and won. JMHO but mailboxes vs. boards with spikes I know if you used nails you would lose 99% of the time (nothing is 100% A small 4' high picket fence or something liek that works mos of the time.
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08/10/2007, 05:00 PM
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Install some of these barriers. I guarantee no one will be driving across your yard.
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08/10/2007, 05:11 PM
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Dang!!!!!! That a rather impressive stop, but I've never seen the anchored barriers at military posts or nuclear weapons plants. I've only seen them in parts of DC. Are they using this sort of thing in Iraq? Seems like it would be quite useful and I know the insurgents have tried to ram through the barricades with heavy trucks on at least 3 occassions. (Each time, our people stopped them with a light anti-armor missile such as a LAW, Dragon, or Javelin.)
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08/10/2007, 05:12 PM
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A raised flowerbox with rr ties? Easy to set up.
Frankly, I'd report it to the local cops, then forget it. Somebody was probably drunk, they missed your house [seriously] and it probably wasn't personal...when I first moved to one of my houses, I hadn't been there a week before somebody took out my mailbox...of course that fool had been driving everybody in the neighborhood nuts, and we knew the car, a VW, of all things, with a noisy motor. Nobody could catch him. But somebody down the hill rebuilt their mailbox with an I-beam core, and he hit it about a week after I lost my mailbox. We heard the limp-limp-limp in the night of a sadly hurting car and there was quiet laughter all over the hill. Honestly, don't worry unless it happens twice.
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08/10/2007, 05:22 PM
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A house on my route home painted cinder blocks green and placed them around the boarder of his property. I used to see tracks thru his yard all the time, havent seen them since... But I bet it's a PITA to move them every time you mow the yard.
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08/10/2007, 05:30 PM
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We lived at the end of a road that went came to a T
Straight ahead was our driveway, and some peoplw would get distracted & keep going straight into our driveway No problem, they back up & go left or right Will, some kids decided they would simply cut to the left & exit thru the yard tires spinning 2nd time someone came down & went across the front yard & left tire marks again 3rd time they hit a large rock that was 3' away from the road They pushed the rock about 10' they were going so fast Never saw the car, but there was oil on the rock & the ground Never happened again |
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08/10/2007, 10:35 PM
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hmmm, in our little boro here, there is some type of ordinance that does not allow you to do anything like that b/c "they" have rights to so many feet of your ground?.?.?. big fight bout' something very similiar down by where my parents live...
Just check into it, and document it with photos and dates and such, and explain that you'd like to put something there to prevent it from happening... I'd not suggest anything that could possibly "hurt" somebody, but something so they can SEE that it's part of your yard... And if it keeps happening then do the nail thing  ... j/k...Christy... 
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08/10/2007, 11:03 PM
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Usually the easement means thye have rights to work on property, erect telephone pole, wide road
You can put up fences, walls, landscaping But if they need to do work, they are not obligated to move or fix what you did Local rules may differ other easements allow people to cross your land --old road, access to beach, access other land then there is a sewer easement, which allows you to use part of your neighbors land in calculating your septic field doesn't always mean your septic will cross the property line, but usually you need 15' to property line My last yard was only 40' wide, so a problem |
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08/10/2007, 11:08 PM
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Hmm. All good info. I worry about the destructive stuff since if they blow a tire there is a good chance that they will dig up the yard with the rim. Good idea bout the planter boxes. We have a baby oak tree (5 ft tall) in the area so I'm sure we could do something nice looking.
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08/11/2007, 03:00 PM
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I second the large decorative rocks...That's what everyone around here uses.
Now if you had problems with people driving over the garbage cans, I could tell you about the can full of cement chunks and sand that put an end to that little bit of nonsense and netted me a slightly used bumper... RandalB
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08/11/2007, 03:47 PM
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LOL, the rebarb my neighbors did was perfectly legal, they even put up reflectors to warn people. They started slowing down coming around the corner in the winter after that. Definately see what is allowed.
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