[Hallicrafters] Antenna Vandals Caught!

[John Page]

Duane, I think the old saying " ignorance of the law is no excuse" is right 
on here. If a cop told you it was ok to drive 65 down the city street and 
another cop stopped you and said the limit is only 45. Who do you think is 
at fault. Yeh, right. John



John Page K4KWM
Hollow State since 1953
(ex W8PKU,N8BLB,NA8O)





>From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
>To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: [Hallicrafters] Antenna Vandals Caught!
>Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:53:17 -0500
>
>
>
>This is going to read like a Ripley Believe It Or Not, so take two aspirin 
>and
>get a coffee, tea or softdrink.
>
>When I sold my late parent's property in December 1998, I kept the back 360 
>feet
>of the 660 feet total depth. My property intersects that land at a right 
>angle.
>Hence, my lot is a 'L'. On this property was a 12X14 shed on a poured 
>concrete
>slab. Beside it was a forty foot heavy duty TV tower sunk in concrete and 
>side
>mounted to the wooden shed. I owned the land from the shed twenty feet to 
>the
>west, after that it belonged to the new owners. Never a problem. Duly 
>registered
>and recorded with the County.
>
>They moved and sold the house. The new woman moved in last December.
>
>The realtor told her she owned the land with the woods and the shed. He 
>gave her
>a key to the shed. (The prior owners never had a key to my shed, so they 
>could
>not possibly have given one to the realtor.)
>
>On February 28, 2003 her 21 year old boyfriend pulled my antennas down with 
>his
>quadwheeler. I heard it happen, but you have to see it happen! Now is that
>discrimination or what? I filed a police report, accusing nobody. Because 
>there
>were no suspects, a detective was never assigned. Basically, it died right
>there.
>
>Today a friend was out back cutting tree branches out of the woods to put 
>the
>new antennas up. The woman approached him and asked what he was doing, so 
>he
>told her. She was quite shocked to learn she did not own the property!
>
>She admitted to me that her boyfriend had ripped the 'cables' down with his
>quadwheeler. They were preparing to pull down my tower next! They had taken 
>my
>Allis Chalmers yard tractor already from the shed, gotten into the safe and 
>so
>forth. I showed her the deed, title and property description. Then I called 
>the
>police.
>
>The realtor cut my lock off the shed, replaced it and gave her a key. I 
>showed
>the police my keys, the battery for the yard tractor which was in the 
>utility
>room for the Winter and so forth. Now the police know me and it was not 
>long
>before an officer showed up here with photocopies of the property 
>descriptions,
>including the survey drawings when I divided the land in 1998. I had 
>already
>called the township office and got that arranged. I also had the original
>realtor who sold the house for me here with copies of the bank work, survey
>report and so forth. There was absolutely no question that I owned the 
>property
>and the shed!
>
>Now ten days after they bought the house, they claim the backpart of the 
>roof
>fell in. So they already had a lawsuit going against the realtor who sold 
>them
>the house. This is especially strange, as I replaced the roof in November 
>1998!
>There is no way it should have fallen in. The people who sold the house I 
>know,
>and are totally honest folks. They knew who owned the shed and where the
>property line was. That was part of the original deal when I sold them the
>property. As I said, they never had a key to that shed.
>
>The police told me that I could do nothing about what the new owners had 
>done,
>because the realtor had deceived them. Hence they thought it was their 
>property,
>thus there was no criminal intent on their part. I had to sue the realtor 
>for
>damages.
>
>I told the police that a person is responsible to know their property 
>boundries,
>and it was not my problem if they could not read or understand a deed, 
>title or
>abstract. Which clearly showed it was not their land or their shed. Made no
>difference. They still willfully or accidentally, broke into my shed, took 
>my
>personal property, destroyed my antenna systems and violated the heck out 
>of my
>privacy. Yet the police could do nothing about it. It was not even 
>considered as
>trespassing, as they thought they owned the land! The people are not liable 
>to
>pay for any damages and my only recourse is to file a lawsit against the 
>realtor
>who allegedly deceived them.
>
>As I was typing this, the original people I sold the house to called and
>verified they never told the realtor the shed was on the property, they 
>even
>showed him where the stake was where the land ended. Even though I had the
>property surveyed prior to selling it, the new owner did it again to be 
>sure the
>land ended at the right place, and it did. Twenty feet due west of the shed
>where the tower is attached.
>
>Another wonderful example of how one can be totally innocent and get the 
>royal
>shaft. Well, at least I now know for absolute certain who destroyed my 
>forty and
>eighty meter antenna systems. Not that it is going to make any difference -
>
>Duane W8DBF
>
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