City dwellers move to country and are shocked to find hunting !!!

[Sistema1927]

Just like the idiots who move next to an airport and then complain about the noise :banghead:

We need more chlorine in the shallow end of the gene pool

 

[V4Vendetta]

"Just like the idiots who move next to an airport and then complain about the noise"

I agree. I live in the woods & hear gun fire all the time. I don't mind. At least I know it's at animals & not some drug dealers executing someone. Uzi's & shotguns sound differently. Those folks who don't like it should move back to the city. I praise the police for not doing anything on this matter. They make cops look good.

 

[xd9fan]

We own a few hundred acres in western South Dakota, just east of the Black Hills. The land is rolling hills and is just great if you like wide open spaces. Human population is pretty sparse.

A few years ago, some people from California purchased a few acres next door and built a great big house on top of a hill. After they moved in, they got bent out of shape about hunters, hunting, etc. on our land. Tough noogies, hunting is a way of life in those parts -- not gonna change for them!

In additon, they hated the wind. Now I gotta tell you that in that part of the world, a 25 mph wind is considered a light breeze -- it does tend to get a little windy there sometimes. But why anyone who does not like wind would build their house on the open prairie on top of a hill, is beyond me.

Anyway, they sold the house and moved back to their safe little liberal world in California.

I'm sure they thought you were savages as well.....some people

 

[V4Vendetta]

Does anyone have a e-mail address where I can send the cops in that town a "Good decision" email?

 

[Woodland_Annie]

Frankfort IL Police: [email protected]

Mayor Jim Holland: [email protected]

Will County Sheriff has no email address but here is their web site: http://www.willcosheriff.org/

Hope this helps.

 

[Lupinus]

people like that make me wish I had the money for a few hundred acres so I could plop a house in the middle of it and not be bothered by anyone, then if they did manage to move in and bugged me somehow I'd start a cattle operation on the property right next to theres, hopefully the wind would be right too

 

[STW]

An unnoticed fallout from the "Californians," "New Yorkers," and "Bostonians" moving into an area is that the locals tend to paint them all with the same brush. I moved to Billings, MT last month from Carlsbad, CA (on the beach 30 miles north of San Diego). I've noticed a few folks look at me sideways and seem to have certain expectations because of my last home. For example, the DMV here now requires proof that you have a right to be in the US for a drivers license. When I mentioned that I'd just go up the street to the court house for a copy the face of the lady helping me went from sullen to smiling. All of a sudden I changed from a Californian to a Montanan.

I imagine more folks will be surprised if they get me talking about such themes as grazing rights on federal land, water rights, ranching and farming practises, mining, land use, The Department of the Interior, etc., etc. My views are colored by an appreciation of history, facts, and too many relatives working as ranchers, roughnecks, and farmers now and in the past not to know that the Rockies are not the Berkshires. (I own a gun or two too.)

Note: One of the problems of those other types moving to an area is that they do buy big bunches of land and procede to force their views. The man now owning my grandfathers ranch closed down a hunting access road that had been used for decades and also shut down access to an old mineral spring that I remember swimming in as a child. He is a money guy in Manhattan and can afford very good lawyers. His eastern attitude "it's mine, stay away" is gradually changing the west.

 

[cracked butt]

There's a reason why people in Wisconsin call people from the Chicago area 'FIBS' along with various other terms.

 

[strambo]

"If they wanted to hunt, they could have gone farther south where there's no subdivisions,"

They did...then someone went and built darn subdivisions around it. Are they supposed to keep buying land ahead of the developments and move each time? When they bought the boring house with no character, they probably thought "backs to greenspace" was a great selling point.

 

[Woodland_Annie]

There's a reason why people in Wisconsin call people from the Chicago area 'FIBS' along with various other terms.

Sorry, the only thing I can come up with for FIBS is Festering Immature Butt Sores.

But what does it really stand for?

 

[CypherNinja]

Sorry, the only thing I can come up with for FIBS is Festering Immature Butt Sores.

But what does it really stand for?

That might actually be it.

Anyway, Crosshair, what episode was that from? I'll have to watch it.

 

[50caliber123]

Let me say something about a certain "New Yorker" I work with. She's more extreme than others, I bet, but it proves city ignorance. One of her friends in Michigan, where I live, work, and unforttunately, met her was shot by police for mugging somebody and running from the cops. He had a weapon, did not listen to the police yelling at him to drop the weapon and stop, they shot him. She was angry. "I can't believe this! Police shooting people is outrageous!" Maybe the guy shouldn't have committed armed robbery, and ran from the police.... anyway, she feels uncomfortable with the amount of guns owned by Michigan residents and how unfair that "someone in Michigan will shoot back, rather than fight unarmed if attacked", so she brags about illegally purchased weapons and body armor to protect herself. A hypoctrie in my book. If you don't like a place YOU moved to, you DO NOT have the right to make everyone think and do the things you want them to to make you happy.

 

[scout26]

FIBS* is what the Wisconsin Border Patrol, errrr State Troopers use describe people driving the vehicles they pull over, as "Revenue Generators" is not politically correct.

There should be a sign at the border that says "Welcome to Wisconsin, Hand Over All Your Money, Now Go Home."




















* "F'ing Illinois B*st*rds"

 

[Ares45]

Seems to be a recurring theme. Same thing is happening in my area. Makes me wonder exactly what the city slickers expected of country living...

More PO'd Urbanites

 

[TrapperReady]

Scout26 - I find it humorous that you're complaining about WI taking money from Illinoisans. Going the other way, we have a $1.50 toll booth as soon as we cross the state line on I-294, plus a bunch more as we continue south.

My mom still lives in the Chicago 'burbs (where I was born and raised), and it's amazing how when you cross into Illinois the speed limit drops, but traffic moves faster (until stopped by the toll booth snarls).

You see, in other surrounding states, the speed limit is kinda-sorta adhered to much of the time. If it's posted 65mph, then you're taking a chance driving much over 70mph. In Chicago traffic, a posted 55mph is meaningless, since a lot of folks drive 75mph or faster. It's no wonder they get pulled over.

There should be a sign at the border that says "Welcome to Wisconsin, Hand Over All Your Money, Now Go Home."

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

[Crosshair]

CypherNinja

Don't know the episode name. It is the one where the home schooled kid wants to go to public school to see what it is like. His parents put him in there so he doesn't get hurt. Funny one to watch.

 

[Woodland_Annie]

You see, in other surrounding states, the speed limit is kinda-sorta adhered to much of the time. If it's posted 65mph, then you're taking a chance driving much over 70mph. In Chicago traffic, a posted 55mph is meaningless, since a lot of folks drive 75mph or faster. It's no wonder they get pulled over.

Funny, the same thing happens in Cleveland on the Shoreway (I-90/SR-2) every day. The speed limit is 50 mph; and a Cleveland police officer clocked me doing 75 in that stretch and waved "Howdy" with a big grin on his face as I drove by him. He didn't pull me over, although I was kinda embarrassed.

Nowadays, though, the police and mayor get along better than they did then, so they might stop people going 25 over the speed limit.

Fair warning to you potential speed-demons.

 

[CypherNinja]

Funny, the same thing happens in Cleveland on the Shoreway (I-90/SR-2) every day. The speed limit is 50 mph; and a Cleveland police officer clocked me doing 75 in that stretch and waved "Howdy" with a big grin on his face as I drove by him. He didn't pull me over, although I was kinda embarrassed.

Nowadays, though, the police and mayor get along better than they did then, so they might stop people going 25 over the speed limit.

Fair warning to you potential speed-demons.

HAHAHA!!! I know exactly what your talking about. A couple years ago I was going to Linolcn Electric Welding School and most mornings fastlane traffic would be going 90mph around the corner where 90 merges with Rt2.

Some days it was like driving in a road rally.


The cops have been clamping down the last few years, though.

Not real hard, but enough that most people don't exceed 70 anymore.

 

[22WMR]

Ottawa County in Michigan gives out pamphlets with a scratch and sniff of a manure for those city folks considering moving in.

I thought that was Allegan County?

I get a kick out of people who move around my area in ottawa county. It is on the border of allegan and near the lake... people sob all the time about this area. Should have thought about that before you moved here.