A Reddit user said he found a kid on his property even though the boundary was clearly marked with solid purple paint across the fence line. He asked the boy if he had seen the markings, and according to the post, the kid admitted that he had. Then the boy told him his dad had said he could go onto the property anyway.
The landowner said he took the kid back to the front gate and told him to call his father. About 15 minutes later, the dad showed up and immediately started ranting in front of his son. According to the post, the man said he had hunted that property for more than 40 years and was going to keep hunting it if he wanted. The landowner told him there was new ownership now and that was not going to keep happening.
The father did not back down. The poster wrote that the man acted like his long history with the land mattered more than the current owner telling him to stay off it. The whole exchange happened right there at the gate with the son standing there after already admitting he had seen the purple paint before crossing the line.
The landowner said the boy himself was not disrespectful, but the father was. That was a big part of what seemed to frustrate him most. From the way he told it, the situation was no longer about a young hunter making one bad decision in the woods. It became a confrontation with a grown man who was still insisting he could use someone else’s land because that was what he had always done.
The story ended there, with the argument at the gate and the father making it clear he still felt entitled to the property despite the markings and despite being told directly to stay off. It was a simple trespassing encounter at first, but once the father arrived, it turned into a direct standoff over whether old habit meant more than current ownership.
What do you think — if a kid admitted he saw the purple paint but said his dad told him to cross anyway, would you treat it as the kid’s mistake, or the father’s?
Original Reddit post: Do not trespass, you would be surprised what a difference an older title makes
