[Boatanchors] Re Mark Bell and all

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Mark, 	
	
Duane --

I don't think I can add much to the other's comments.

Please do NOT act our of anger or depression.   Put your gear away and take
a break.	
	
This is not anger nor depression on my part. It is simply futility. When I have
a twenty year old female neighbor who gets her boyfriend to tear down my
antennas, knowing they are not on her land, and the law considers it as a civil
issue, no demonstrable criminal intent can be shown, and it costs me three times
as much to recover the damages as the actual damages, and the girl and her
boyfriend suffer no penalty at all, what is the point in putting the expensive
antenna systems back up? 	
	
If you could see a picture of my land, you would quickly observe the forty foot
TV tower in question is in my Pine woods and has two bazooka antennas attached
to it. The legs run into the woods. This is 125 feet south of my home. While I
am in a subdivision, it is land locked and behind my house, and others on my
street, is this woods with forty foot Scotch Pines, a natural duck pond to the
east and then another woods with non-evergreen trees. Very beautiful, peaceful
and generally extremely safe. Until the kids moved in, that is. 	
	
I do not have the money to pay people to put up antennas so the kids can tear
them down. So until the kids move, my only practical alternative is to have no
antennas there for them to tear down. I do not like it, but it is the way things
are.     		
	
I am angry enough to level the house, but it just happens to be the home I grew
up in with my late parents. The kids living there do not know that, however. 
Maybe a blight of Termites will eat them out of house and home -   	
	
DBF