01-15-2020, 06:07 AM
So, I'm curious, and this might be better placed under a whole new discussion. But, I was at Echo last, Sunday, and dragged my sled down onto the lake. I wasn't sure of the ice thickness, so left my snowmobile on the trailer. Regardless, the ice was plenty thick, but when we were done, there was no way I was going to pull that heavy sled back uphill. I pulled the sled to the edge of the lake and unloaded the snowmobile. I drove it down to the lake and pulled my sled back up with the snowmobile. What I didn't see, and what was pointed out to me, was a sign.... pointing the opposite direction of where I decided to park. The sign talked about, "no motorized vehicles". Well, the only sign pointing my directions said, "No camping". In order to see the other sign, I would have had to have walked all the way around to the other side of the fence. Now, I wasn't cited..... but, this seems like a, "gotcha". I easily could have been cited. I don't know anything about, Mantua, but it seems like a similar thing.
Sign confusion. State code is pretty direct as to what constitutes criminal trespass and sign recognition. I think, I hope, I would be OK arguing the facts to a judge. The question would be who the judge is. You're always afforded to hearing your case before the judge, or a jury of your peers.
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Sign confusion. State code is pretty direct as to what constitutes criminal trespass and sign recognition. I think, I hope, I would be OK arguing the facts to a judge. The question would be who the judge is. You're always afforded to hearing your case before the judge, or a jury of your peers.
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