The Public Notice: Our Responsibility and Due Diligence Regarding Trespass:
Q: How are you doing I was wondering do you have any case sighting or information on defaulting individuals who violate my copy written name?
A: Think of it this way, lets say you have a farm and people short cut through your field to get to the beach to the point you can not grow anything on the path. I ask you whose fault is it, if you do not point it out to them [notice them] and act appropiately to assert your position in regard to your property?
The answer is yours of course.
First Notice:
Now let say you tell them by posting a notice [Do not trespass – $200 FINE ] and they continue to trespass – then whose fault is that?
The answer is yours of course because they are not
taking you seriously and why should they if they were
always able to do it before? One thing people do not realize is that we are responsible for our communications. If they do not get it, it is ‘our fault’.
People are creatures of habit and have a tendency not to pay attention if its to their advantage. Life is simple that way particularily if it is your gain at some one else’s expense.
Second Notice: Lets say you then speak to them individually as the policy enforcer [aka police force] This time maybe they really did not notice, so you not wanting to be the bad guy here give them the
benefit of the doubt.
Third Notice: But lets say they then blatently ignore your public notice a third time again, now then whose fault is that?
This time they cannot say they were not properly noticed and so they are now wholly responsible for the consequence of their actions. Now you are fully justified to take action against them in accordance to the terms and conditions as is posted on your sign.
So to answer your question, I ask you, “Whose responsibility is it to notice if people are trespassing on your territory”? The answer of course is you. It begs other questions, such as: “So what are you doing about it? Are you doing your due diligence to protect the farm, your livihood, your sense of well being, your emotional and mental health”?
To introduce another analogy, “Are you pulling the weeds out of your garden or are you letting the weeds take over”. Its like exercise, no body can do or will do this for you, you have to keep due diligence and do what you have to do, to respect yourself by standing up for your self and not letting people walk all over you. In my humble opinion, we all have a long way to go when it comes to taking full ‘response’ ability for our selves and our situation.
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