Learn from my trespassing mistake in Idaho!!!!!

[WeiserBucks]

Nope. He said the gate wasn’t signed where he threw his bike over.

Idaho law is clear that such a gate/entrance needs signage/notice.

He said the gate was posted.

 

[cmahoney]

Yeah, you broke the law, I don't need to address that, but As a cop myself, I wouldn't even volunteer info to the cops lol. It's our (cops) job to investigate to determine IF a crime occurred, not anyone else's job to help with that investigation. In some circumstances Officers can detain you and identify you if they can truly articulate a crime that you likely committed, but again, It's no one else's job to help me articulate what crime that may have been. If I (acting as an officer) can't even say a crime has occurred (loading meat into a vehicle on the side of the road isn't a crime), then be on your way, good day. Nothing grinds my gears more than the citizen complaint of "oh there's a guy sitting on a bench over there, I want you to go interrogate him" and then the officer actually doing it....and then demanding ID simply because "we got a call on you".....so what? And Game wardens are the worst offenders, too. They'll search your whole boat with no warrant just to make sure you have a safety whistle on board....If I started searching private property the way they do, I'd be spending most of my week in federal court getting dragged over the coals regarding the blatant 4th amendment violations.....Oh, but the game warden wants to make sure the fish are all 12 inches and not 11? No problem! I also don't trust those "family services" women any further than I can throw them (which since they are all 230+ pounds, that isn't very far), but that's a totally separate kind of government overreach....anyway, be polite, don't volunteer information, definitely don't talk to family services. Rant over. LOL

230? Maybe in their first year on the job. They are 3 bills easy.


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[Zzyzx]

He said the gate was posted.

Nope. Read the OP again and his multiple replies where he reiterated this issue.

The highway side of that land was posted. The gate on the back side was not posted in the manner prescribed by Idaho 18-7008

Section 18-7008 – Idaho State Legislature

legislature.idaho.gov

 

[bdg848]

230? Maybe in their first year on the job. They are 3 bills easy.


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I was trying to be kind.

 

[WeiserBucks]

Sounds like it was posted but probably not at all specific boundaries.

 

[Zzyzx]

Sounds like it was posted but probably not at all specific boundaries.

Exactly. And the landowner should not receive the benefits of the law if they aren’t meeting the notice requirement.

OP could only see the signs after crossing the gate.

This “note” from Idaho GF correctly restates Idaho 18-7008.

2018 Trespass Law

Information surrounding the trespass rules in Idaho

idfg.idaho.gov

Brush up on Idaho's trespassing laws before you go hunting or fishing​

 

[WeiserBucks]

Exactly. And the landowner should not receive the benefits of the law if they aren’t meeting the notice requirement.

OP could only see the signs after crossing the gate.

This “note” from Idaho GF correctly restates Idaho 18-7008.

2018 Trespass Law

Information surrounding the trespass rules in Idaho

idfg.idaho.gov

Brush up on Idaho's trespassing laws before you go hunting or fishing​

I'm very familiar with the law, I hunt adjacent to private every year, just had to gloss over the OP to see that it wasn't marked where he entered as it should have been.

 

[EastHumboldt]

I hunt adjacent to private every year too. It is not marked or fenced for the most part, except where the access trail crosses through form private to wilderness. I see plenty of buck sign on the way in on the private, and sometimes a nice buck… on the private. I know the owner, on friendly terms, and he even lets me park my truck on his land for a week while we’re in the wilderness.

When we get to camp, we don’t even hunt the ridge that abuts the private land because we don’t want to make a boundary mistake and piss off the owner, or worse get a serious violation. I don’t even want to have the “I shot him on the wilderness but he ran into private” conversation. There’s plenty of acreage left without taking that risk for me. YMMV.

Again no judgement on the OP. He’s trying to help.

 

[FAAFO]

He only had knowledge later. The Wilks brothers didn’t meet the sign/notice requirements of Idaho law. On the back side gate where OP entered.

Nope

 

[idahodave]

Nope

Agreed. SO much ignorance on this thread. Of COURSE the legal requirements were met for posting. Otherwise he wouldn’t have received a citation.

The Wilkes bros ASSUREDLY meet that standard because they know no CO would scratch a ticket otherwise, as they so unpopular in Idaho.

My last post on this thread though, as the closet Matlocks on this thread simply have too much ignorance to overcome.

Note that MOST are non-residents posting this ignorance fwtw. Idaho folks know better for the most part.

 

[ScreamingPotato]

Of COURSE the legal requirements were met for posting. Otherwise he wouldn’t have received a citation.

I don't know the true details of the story in this thread or nuances of all the laws involved, but what I DO know is that statement is patently false.

 

[Reburn]

I don't know the true details of the story in this thread or nuances of all the laws involved, but what I DO know is that statement is patently false.

But he is from Idaho and they know better according to him.

 

[WeiserBucks]

OP said where he entered the property, on a road, wasn't posted.

 

[Zzyzx]

Agreed. SO much ignorance on this thread. Of COURSE the legal requirements were met for posting. Otherwise he wouldn’t have received a citation.

The Wilkes bros ASSUREDLY meet that standard because they know no CO would scratch a ticket otherwise, as they so unpopular in Idaho.

My last post on this thread though, as the closet Matlocks on this thread simply have too much ignorance to overcome.

Note that MOST are non-residents posting this ignorance fwtw. Idaho folks know better for the most part.

This is the OP’s thread, so shouldn’t we assume he is telling the truth when he says the gate wasn’t signed on the back side?

Maybe you should start your own fictional thread where the billionaire landowners and Game Warden are incapable of making mistakes.