Yup, me too. I don’t mind picking up the litter too much (I’d prefer it if people would use a freaking garbage can, but apparently that’s too much to ask); what really gets up my nose is any neighbours of mine who just leave the shit on their front yard. If we want to live in a nice neighbourhood, we have to all work to keep it that way.
I’m around the corner from a high school and a lot of the kids walk past our house. It’s a rare day that there’s not coffee cups, chip bags and other assorted trash blowing around in our street.
Here, it’s illegal (I believe) to put unsolicited material in a letterbox if the letterbox has a ‘No junk mail’ sign on it.
We finally got around to putting one on after a couple of years of non-stop catalogues and coupons. Within a week the supply dried up. We get the occasional one, and sometimes I’m tempted to contact the company and complain, but I’m too lazy to bother.
And the 1st Amendment does NOT obligate me to provide them a space on MY Goddamned property to exercise their 1st Ad. rights.
Well, here, it’s illegal to put ANY material in a mailbox unless it is bona fide mail. The term “junk mail” has no legal meaning here.
This is why, in my subdivision, the guy who delivers those worthless community newspapers just drives down the street flinging them with wreckless abandon out of his moving car’s open window. They usually end up somewhere on my driveway, on my lawn or the grass on the other side of the sidewalk. Using a wheelchair as I do, I find that these are the most irritating of all the junk that’s left at/on my house. Especially in the winter months when snow limits my outdoor accessibility to get to the goddamn things to pick them up.
For the longest time I had no idea where these papers were coming from, until one day I spotted the guy driving down the street tossing them out of his car like so much fast food garbage. I waved him down and told him I didn’t want the paper delivered to my house any longer. He looked at me sort of puzzled and said, “So you just want it on the weekends then?” :smack: NO! Not at all, I said. He said ok and he left; I got the feeling he was mentally impaired. Aside from a few isolated times when the paper still came, that took care of the problem.
Whether the law of the land is worded to specifically support your statement I am not aware, but I do know one thing, at the very least there is legal precedence and possibly a specific law that prevents a property owner from using any kind of excessive force to remove someone from their property or prevent them from entering if they have not first utilized some civilized mode of communication. I.E. asking nicely, pointing out a sign that says no trespassing or something to that effect, et cetera. So you can’t just shoot someone or punch them in the taint for being on your property without adequate warning. Even burglars or thieves or murderers and the like.
So how bout them apples? 
Well, at least he’s driving safely, there is that.
I used to get those dang community newspapers all the time. The delivery guy would come up the stairs to my front porch and hang the newspaper in a plastic bag on the doorknob. Usually this would be during a weekday when I was at work. Luckily, one day I was off of work on delivery day and saw him working his way down the street, happily spreading his trash throughout the neighborhood. As I fumed over the oncoming nuisance, a stroke of genius hit me. I ran to the basement and grabbed my AK-47 out of its case. Although not fully automatic and converted to semi-auto to be imported into the US, it still looks like something out of an Al Qaeda training video with its 30 round magazine. As he approached my house, I waited by the door until I heard his footsteps on the porch. Just as he was reaching to attach the bag to the doorknob, I pulled open the door and just stood there holding the rifle in one hand. I’ve never seen anyone go ghost white before…until that moment. He ran down the steps and down the block and disappeared. I’ve never had to deal with that stupid community newspaper on my door since.
unfortunately, the next folks to knock on your door might be DHS or the FBI… effective, but maybe not the best way to go about it..
You ever see that video a while back where the one guy jumps out of a trash can to scare his friend? And the scared friend instinctively reacts by clocking him in the face?
It would be *awesome * :rolleyes: if that guy you scared with your gun was also packing heat, being a fellow over-eager gun enthusiast, and just instinctively drew his weapon in defense of a perceived threat.
That would be hilarious. :rolleyes: Neither you nor anyone else on your street would have to ever deal with him placing things anywhere anymore, as probably both you and he would end up dead or arrested.
You never really know who is behind the door of the house you are walking up to - that is true. But it is also true that you never really know who is walking up to your house. Prudence and caution are helpful to the advancement of the family genes.
Lemme guess, you’ve got a canned response about responsible gun ownership, or about how yours wasn’t loaded, or about how 2nd ammendment this and 2nd ammendment that right? Well save it because I’ve got a canned prejudice ready and raring to go - guys who own AK-47’s, for any reason, have a personality I believe isn’t worth taking the time to warm up to.
So let’s sum up shall we? Opening the door while holding a rifle, while possibly legal (though ill advised) proves something about your character, and it is not admirable. You instigate a fight-or-flight response in the other person, and it’s truly a coin toss as to which you’ll receive.