Does it make me a bad resident to be glad to see the hunters leave? The bad thing is that they are checking out early because we are having unseasonable weather and they are afraid of some huge storm rolling in and they would be unable to get home.
I realize that they bring money to town when they come for hunting season, specifically pheasant hunting season. Some of these guys scare me though…it’s like they check their brains at the door. Add to that the fact that they are carrying GUNS!
Here is an example. One of the houses across the street from me is a rental…specifically for hunting season. The owner lets his son and nephew live in it the rest of the year, but for hunting season they have to vacate. So 4 Suburbans pull up about a week ago. Each carrying one older male and at least one dog. So there about 6 dogs staying across the street…which I don’t have a problem with, until the owners of said dogs walk them across the street to my property or my neighbor’s property to toilet them. I happened outside while this was happening one time and the guy just looked at me and said “Oh do you live here”…Hmmm…House (check), Lights on (check), Vehicles parked in front of house (check)…”YEAH!”. “Oh” he says and proceeds to take his dogs next door. DUMBASS!
Then there was the time that I pull up to the intersection of 2 highways and it’s blocked (in both directions mind you) by several out of state vehicles. The owners of the vehicles were standing outside the vehicles looking at maps, comparing guns, chit-chatting…completely oblivious that they were blocking people, residents, from where they needed to be. They also don’t seem to be able to read signs that say, “Private Property” and “No Hunting”.
It’s like they think we all arrived to care for them and that we leave to live elsewhere once hunting season is over.
I worry about my friend’s whose livelihood benefits from hunters…but silently I am glad to see them leave.
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