This actually happens on a fairly regular basis around here. Someone drives right off the end of a county road at a “T.” I almost never see the vehicle. Just the evidence that a driver didn’t see that the road ended. Looks like in this instance the car bottomed out on our field for several yards before stopping. I bet that was a fun ride. There are little pieces of the car left behind as well.
A few years ago I saw tire tracks in a soybean field. I don’t know what happened to the car or the people in it, but this road is 2-3′ above the fields around it. The tire tracks didn’t start until 20′ or so out into the crop. Someone had a flying car for a brief moment.
Then you have the guys who think everyone else’s field is public property. When it gets muddy and or snowy, some genius has to take his truck out and tear things up. Farmers hate that. Please don’t do it. Last spring we found a Durango buried up to the doors in one of our fields. The driver though he could make it across several inches of standing water. Apparently he didn’t think about how thick the mud underneath it would be. His girlfriend showed up and told the deputy he accidentally slid off the road. Not likely.
Just thought I’d share this little tidbit with you. Have you seen something similar?
Kyle Stackworth in Indiana Agri News wrote a piece basically saying the samething.People should respect others properties
I read that. It was pretty good.
Driving on your field is the same as driving into a building. They are destroying the property you use to earn to a living! How do they not even leave a note or an offer to pay for what they have destroyed?
Accidents happen, but the people that do it on purpose are irritating. Those ruts can be hard to get rid of.
I did that in northern Oklahoma late one night coming back from an oil well with the well-logs to Oklahoma CIty. I was tired, but knew the intersection was coming up. I kept watching a flashing red light thinking that was at the intersection all the way up to the time I blew through the intersection at 70mph. Luckily, there was a section-line gravel road that continued on south. The flashing red light turned out to be on a radio tower about 4 miles south. Kinda messed up the company car’s alignment.
I have that problem in my river bottoms. People think the dirt road that continues on past the bridge over the Lower Shaker Prairie Ditch is a continuation of the county road. Then there are the guys who think my often muddy fields in the bottoms are their playground for their 4WDs.
I bet that woke you up, Lynn!
Yup!
We’ve had folks who think that our fields are just their own playground. They go atv riding in the lower fields and drive around. Now our lower fields are hay pasture, so not as much damage is done (unless they’re really trying), but it still is a little infuriating that people think they can trespass on our property without permission.
I was driving along 850N in Northen Tippecanoe County and drove a pile of old furniture someone dumped there last week