Snowboarder confronted with shotgun.....

[Tex]

I was only stating that the snowboarder said it was a shotgun. Someone asked about it being fake because it wasn't a shotgun, it was a rifle. Having grown up around a hunting family, I know the difference and I've exprienced people who aren't knowledgable that talk about one or the other out of reference.

I was stating ski bum got it wrong, it was a rifle not a shotgun, as a reason why it was not fake or rehearsed. If it was rehearsed, old dude would have told ski bum "Look you big dummy, stop call it a shotgun!".

I also wanted to show off and show everyone how much I know about guns, my Texas internet cred is starting to slip around here, so I needed to give it a little internet boost.

 

[Tex]

In many parts of the country, trespassing onto private property would normally be met with armed protection. I suspect this guy (landowner) is fed up with people encroaching onto his land, so decided to meet the violators while armed.

Signage would probably be a lower risk and more effective approach.

I do not disagree with that. I'm ok with anything old dude does as long as he stays within the confines of the law. If it is legal for him to sit on his property with a legal gun and tell people to stay off, I'm good with it.

One of those articles posted above says the road is public. If so, he over stepping his bounds stopping people there. I suspect old dude owns property next to the public road/pathway, looks like skim bum was not on it at first, probably was on old dudes property.

If you ski out of bounds, you need to know where you are going, and stay off private property.

 

[Tex]

Snowboards are also like squirrels, you let them on to your property, and next thing you know they want to take over and think they own the place, they will be jumping off your roof, sliding off your picnic tables...

 

[tch]

Maybe this guy should think a couple of times before getting aggressive with firearms. Very similar situation with tragic results from NY:

New York man who killed a woman after a wrong turn in his driveway gets 25 years to life

A New York man was sentenced to the maximum 25 years to life in prison for fatally shooting a woman after the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove into his driveway.

apnews.com

 

[Sheena]

So the guy who pointed the gun at the snowboarder has been charged.

https://www.ksl.com/article/5096482...h-threatening-pointing-shotgun-at-snowboarder

 

[scott43]

You better be sure before you sweep someone..

 

[Pat AKA mustski]

I don't care if someone is trespassing, unless they are threatening you, your family, or your property, a gun is way out of line. Our former property was in the national forest and had a long cleared street to street driveway. People constantly thought it was a trail, or a road, and walked or drove off road motorcycles through it. We stopped them, politely informed them that it was private property, and called the police if they refused to accept our suggestion that they move on. We never brought either the rifle or the shotgun outside with us. I will say that one time someone "bumped" Bob with their Jeep and insisted Bob was in the wrong for standing in the way. The police disagreed. People end up in places they shouldn't by accident. The police need to have a serious conversation with the local with the gun.

 

[James]

The guy maybe losing his mind. I wonder if he had AT boots on to chase people down on skis.