By Catherine--Holland, MI on Sunday, September 14, 2003 - 12:08 am:
That "Everyman's Right" is interesting and I would be absolutely thrilled if we could all practice it here also, but my uncle had to post NO TRESPASS signs last year for the first time on our UP farm land when our bulldozer road became the latest local teen hot party spot (you have to go up the driveway and through the yard past the house to access it).
Some friends of ours (also UP) were terrorized in their own yard by drunk downstate hunters one fall (verbally abusive, physically threatening and disturbing the farm animals).
I know it is a shame that the jerky few ruin it for the reasonable many, but what is one to do when the few were raised poorly or are too immature to trust and the rest of us can't tell just by looking into which category our "trespassers" may fall?
A non-UP example: I went to the Field Museum in Chicago this summer and was sadly amused to see that there are people whose sole job it is to monitor the shuttle bus lines as the public cannot be trusted to stand in line. And their services were needed while I was there as a few riders couldn't do it at all, much less courteously. The many were fine.
This morning when I sat down at the computer, the temp on Pasty.NET's home page just about matched this shot from Tom Suggs' guest album. I just noticed the artist's name on the lower part of the thermometer looks like "Chuck Hopper". Hmmm... I can't remember painting that one.