We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:56:18 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Admittedly, it really doesn't take all that much, if you go about it right. Take this picture, fr'instance. Looks like your average normal guard tower on the frontiers of the Demesne, right? Well, that or a deer stand. Heh. *I* didn't build it. None of the people I gave permission to hunt the Demesne this year built it. And it wasn't there last fall. Someone has a rather different view of "Private Property" than I do. It's not like it wasn't marked or something... Heh. It isn't here any more, either. And look, the Sun came out and shone brightly... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html Fri, 02 May 2008 07:38:01 -0600 Whoever put that stand up needs to take up a safer hobby. Like poking grizzly bears with sticks while wearing a venison chop tied to your private parts... (Seriously? Hunting without permission on Donovan land? Are you terminally remedial?) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72739 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72739 Mon, 05 May 2008 09:18:01 -0600 To quote "The Guide"... "Absolutely none." http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72729 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72729 Sun, 04 May 2008 08:09:34 -0600 Well it wasn't me, I don't hunt deer. I do have some experience at hunting people though. Will work for guns n ammo. No not the mag. I'm wondering what sort of damage a 30kg rough would suffer if I let crash right through the stand from 500' http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72725 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72725 Sat, 03 May 2008 22:11:21 -0600 Nothing says "No Trespassing" like a Claymore. A dummy training one, of course. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72724 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72724 Sat, 03 May 2008 20:22:24 -0600 P.s. When I worked for Bartlett and acquired my chipper expertise and tinnitus, we were not allowed to climb living trees using climbers on boots. Making a hole in a tree always introduces tree pathogens. Exception, of course, if the tree was coming down anyway. Tinnitus aside, I'm glad for the experience, not least because it contributed to Michael Z. Williamson's decision to exempt me from the general chipping of FL voters if he becomes Dictator. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72714 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72714 Fri, 02 May 2008 23:36:59 -0600 Even if it hadn't been posted, building _structures_ on somebody else's property is pretty rude. And they hurt the tree, too. Somebody might want to saw that tree up some day and make something of it, but couldn't because the wood was all diseased from nail wounds. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72713 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72713 Fri, 02 May 2008 23:27:25 -0600 It wasn't a tree stand that surprised us one late summer day when walked the back part of 84 acres we used to own. It was the healthy, well-tended pot plants we stumbled upon. We let the sheriff take care of it. He said since that part of our property bordered the Daniel Boone National Forest the folks who planted it probably thought they were on public land and no one would be back in that remote area before they could harvest it in the fall. They thought wrong. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72711 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72711 Fri, 02 May 2008 22:49:30 -0600 that sort of signage....]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72705 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72705 Fri, 02 May 2008 18:07:17 -0600 Well, I can have some sympathy for the dogs. They didn't do anything wrong, to get ripped from their home. The rest, tough noogies. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72701 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72701 Fri, 02 May 2008 13:56:04 -0600 that specific piece of property would be considered poaching. And Tennessee law permits the TWRA to confiscate any and all chattels used in the commission of poaching. The last time the local wardens caught a poacher around here they confiscated his gun, his dogs, his pickup truck, and the clothes he was standing in. When his wife bailed him out of the county hoosegow he went home in his underwear, a Tyvek coverall, and a set of flip-flops. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72700 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72700 Fri, 02 May 2008 13:48:18 -0600 put up something like this...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72699 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72699 Fri, 02 May 2008 13:44:20 -0600 You've probably destroyed an official government lurking tower. ;) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72698 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72698 Fri, 02 May 2008 12:53:32 -0600 Did you leave them a nice note explaining that armed intruders could be met by an armed response? Possibly an in person patrol, possibly from long range. You know, just a polite and friendly reminder of the difference between public and private property. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72697 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72697 Fri, 02 May 2008 12:47:15 -0600 (shuffle steps over) Zug zug. Yes m'lord. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72695 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72695 Fri, 02 May 2008 10:44:08 -0600 Morel Hunters need a 'Shroom Stand? Why, the masses inquire. BTW - Did Ry's Home Of The Big Buns ever get a proper designation? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72694 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72694 Fri, 02 May 2008 10:15:23 -0600 Can you take them out with a sniper rifle as armed intruders? Some folks have a lot of nerve. Glad to hear you weren't roughed up too much early this morning (about 0200). http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72693 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72693 Fri, 02 May 2008 10:12:46 -0600 We've also had some traffic on our "at the end of a mile-long dead end" road that might be explained by this artifact - that and the mushroom poachers. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72692 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72692 Fri, 02 May 2008 10:12:35 -0600 I didn't do it! :) Besides I prefer portable stands. Don't marr up the scenery and usually are a lot easier on the tree's http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72690 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/05/how_to_annoy_th.html#comment-72690 Fri, 02 May 2008 10:07:11 -0600