We have all manner of stuff dumped on neighboring properties where the land owners live elsewhere. Deer carcasses (as in the SOB who dumped it just cut the head off to get his “trophy” and discarded the remainder intact); an old mattress I say is on a developer’s property and he says is on mine but neither of us is really sure (it has only been there about 18 months); four perfectly good tires that look like someone took their P rated pavement only tires off their pickup to swap for light truck tires; yard waste; a few logs;plus some Natural Light cans, miscellaneous liquor bottles, and McDonald’s bags (don’t know what it is with McDonald’s and litter bugs).
Reminded me, several years ago I came home from work mid-day to pick up my wife to attend the funeral of one of our son’s high school friends we had known pretty well. On the way back to work I saw a landscaping crew dumping grass clippings, leaves, and small limbs in one of our fields adjacent to the road. Swung my truck into the field close enough to the apparent crew boss to get his undivided attention and asked him if he got permission from the owner of the field to dump there. I know it’s unbelievable, but he said he didn’t think anyone owned the field. Told him I knew he didn’t get the owner’s permission because I was the owner and didn’t give permission, but did he really just say he thought the field was some sort of unclaimed territory not owned by any government, person, or business? He said, yeah that’s what he said but now it sounded really stupid. Told him I had the plate numbers off two of his trucks and I had to go back to work now that I was done with a funeral for a 21 year old kid so I wasn’t in the mood to screw with him. Just load up the crap he dumped, get the f out of my field, and don’t come back so we could all avoid unnecessary effort and unpleasantries. He agreed that was appropriate. To his credit, they cleaned up pretty decent and haven’t been back.
Hydraulic oil in buckets on their side near a creek is next level. Some people just suck.