Interfere with fishing/hunting/trapping

[Driftless]

Lets hear your tales?????

Wisconsin has a statute that is used often on overbearing land owners.

We have a keep your feet law and all public bridges are accesses and anglers

can fish as long as they enter at public area and stay with wet feet.

It is Wisconsin State Statute 29.083(2)

https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/29/II/083

[Driftless]

We have a landowner in my neck of woods who is bad.

He made up a fake sign that looked like it was from WDNR

that said due to some migratory bird... fishing was not

allowed under his bridge. He calls the Sheriff's

Department so often they call him "The Cry Wolf" guy.

Last May 4 anglers called the police on him. In a drunken

rage he sicked his dog on the 4 anglers "all were fishing"

from a public bridge. It bit three of the four. He then

drove over the bridge at a high rate of speed and swerved

at 4 anglers causing them to dive off the bridge to keep

from being hit.

The land owner was charged and received about $2,000 dollars

in fines and the enhancer was added to his punishment.

If he has any contact with anglers and causes troubles again

his hunting and fishing privileged will be revoked for

FIVE years along with a hefty fine.

[so haaad]

Unfortunately there will always be a few bad seeds on each side. For every bad landowner there's a bad fisherman who oversteps the boundaries (literally) or leaves their garbage on the bank. Call me old school, but respect goes a long ways.

[OnAFly]

I've seen both extremes.

Case one - A lady put up bouys where she thought she owned the water.

Case two - A guy puts up a sign saying crossing is OK as long as you don't leave garbage.

Most people are reasonable and really just want their land to free of garbage. Some people are just nuts.

[itchmesir]

Some landowners just don't want people on their land.. when it's not easement owned by the DNR.. it's a liability to those landowners if someone was to break a bone from being dumb or unaware of what they are walking in/on.. or worse case scenario slip hit a rock and drown in the stream.. and they some people don't want to be bothered.. but they are usually the kooks.. its not like the fisherman is bothering them being 100's yrds away from their house

[mainbutter]

He then

drove over the bridge at a high rate of speed and swerved

at 4 anglers causing them to dive off the bridge to keep

from being hit.

So.. Why no attempted murder charge? 10-25 years in prison?

DWI? Felony?

[itchmesir]

So.. Why no attempted murder charge? 10-25 years in prison?

DWI? Felony?

The DNR probably wouldn't get any money from an attempted murder charge.. but if they slap the suspect with a ton dnr related fines then it all goes in their pocket

[kywest]

It's kind of a sad day when it quite possibly did/does boil down to who gets paid...

[Driftless]

This same fool got in a drunk driving accident a half a mile from his home. His wife called him at the bar and told him that there were anglers on "his" stream and he flew towards home and wrecked his SUV in a drunken stupor.