oh that reminds me of my backdoor neighbor... the one who shoots fireworks towards my home and I've found spent casings on my roof, my wood pile against my garage, in my compost pile, in the yard, on the chicken coops roof....and they are illegal here in IL.
So they have a teenage boy who shoots bb's and pellet guns at our house too....same with another backyard neighbor and his 2 boys...why aim at my yard? I have 2 small kids and animals??? Problem there? That's illegal too...they have no yard (subdivision) to be able to shoot...no matter where they stand on their property it would go into someone elses yard. They have to go to a firing range I was told by the village Sheriff, who went to school with my sis and knows me well.
I've had dead birds in my yard because I know they are shooting them. I've stood in my garden heard something whiz past my ear and hit a metal roof to a small cold frame I had and my kids were running in the yard right beyond that...I knew it was a bullet. I called the cops that time for sure.
One day I come home and there are like 6 teens in masks holding guns in my yard....I sat in my car, my kids flipping out, my dog was wrapped around a post with no slack in his chain because he was scared, and my chickens were flippin out... I would have thought they would have run as soon as they saw someone pull in...but they just stood there. I got out and yelled at them they were trespassing...they slowly left.
I put my 2 little crying kids in the house and put toons on and marched over to the ones house and there I saw all the boys sitting on the drive...I asked for their parents...the dad came out and told me they were pellet guns, said didn't you ever run around the neighborhood when you were a kid--yes, but only in the yards of the kids I was playing with, then he picks up a pellet off the deck and whips it at my chest and tells me they don't hurt?? did he really just do that?, then he says, are you the one that keeps calling the cops on us? and then says, I don't call about your chickens...
I said, I'm zoned ag. I'm allowed to have chickens--(this is my childhood home) and said nothing that I am doing is illegal...coming home to boys in masks and guns freaked my kids out, my dog out, my livestock out and me out and they are trespassing. Finding dead birds in my yard and having bb's whiz past my ear and almost hit my kids is not being neighborly. Fireworks and casings shot over my house and land on my property is illegal and could cause a fire....
sigh...
