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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (2293)	3/29/2003 4:07:19 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37174

People like this along the border could be enlisted as eyes and ears of a joint security effort, was one idea proposed by a caller .... not a bad idea maybe, give this lady a number to speed-dial if/when she sees anything suspicious, and you'd have quite a few metres of the border covered .... maybe, hard to say, you'd have to know the area, and her, i suppose eh This is a thing with which i've had considerable personal experience, not with international borders but with the lines between adjacent owners of property .... from logging and clearing and building roads etc, you often need to deal with a property line, and it's not unusual to see hostility on the other side of it ... or on both sides, very often .... on old crown grants on the BC coast, the roads went in before there was much for surveying, the old-timers never really cared, a few feet here or there didn't matter, to make access cheaper and faster they would follow the topography and not always the lines in the land registry ...... one place i 'informally' crossed years ago has been sold recently, good thing i got the wood out before, because now the new owner is entirely hostile, the timber would be uneconomic because it would require new access, which would mean shooting a lot of rock and putting in a large culvert or small bridge .... where before we just drove across a corner on an old existing road .... funny thing there is, access to the other property crosses the one on which i worked, not very far away either, but it has a legal easement to do so, registered and gazetted years ago Some really amusing stuff comes up between owners, one time i was putting in fence lines all around a farm with a small dozer, highly selective and careful operation wanted from my owner already, then the neighbour started feuding with him, demanded that i move not a twig on his side of the line .... well just try that in the woods, which get formed in more random manner, it meant i had to buck off windfalls and roots etc to a tolerance of about 10cm .... and not spray any sawdust on 'My My MY side of the line!', lol ..... i did anyway of course, what the hell can you do, and then later i brought the hostile back two of his loose horses that i'd caught on my own place, never referred to the previous idiocy at all, but you could tell he remembered too, lol