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Now I know there are feuds, some long standing, but this is new. To me anyway.

Booby traps’ found in central Minnesota farm field

LITCHFIELD, Minn. (AP) - Authorities in central Minnesota say someone left “booby traps” in a farmer’s field apparently meant to damage farm equipment.

Meeker County Sheriff Brian Cruze says a farmer near Cedar Mills on Monday reported minor damage to a combine after a chain was drawn into the machine during harvesting.

Cruze told Minnesota Public Radio News it’s premature to speculate on motive. The sheriff says the chain may have been in the corn for weeks or months.

But he says when the farm family got deeper into the crop, it happened again.

Mindy Johnson’s family farms about 2,000 acres of corn and soybeans. She says the second incident involved a 6-foot piece of steel rebar pounded into the ground near a cornstalk where it was hard to see.

Johnson says she doesn’t know why her family’s farm would be singled out.
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Someone's just beggin' to get shot.

They done pizzed somebody off.

Yup! weren't no accident.

Simiiar to what happened to a neighbor up on the ridge a few years ago. Used grader blade edges.

Yep someone's good and pissed about something.

There was a bit on the news the other day about vindictive farming stuff. A blueberry farmer was just found guilty and ordered to pay two point something million to the people he had sold the farm to the year before. They proved that he sprayed herbicide over the entire crop just before possession date. New owners didn't find out for several months why all the plants were dying. You wonder wtf someone would go to all that trouble.. did the new owners force him out somehow? Just a bitter prick? Weird one..

Who knows

Could be some wacko anti-GMO food nazi.

It could really be that random and that stupid, anything goes nowadays.

Comanches?

Around here it's been drainage disputes or somebody not keeping their cattle home. Comes down to a lot of huffin and puffin at worst. Thankfully. S'pose that's what it is around Litchfield, a little far from The Cities for eco-nuts.

This is why we never chew out trespassers. Impossible to watch over everything and if you get some weirdo manbitch all butthurt they might come back and shoot a cow or vandalize equipment.

The biggest problem with having a little land is fuuckhead people.

You spoke a lot of wisdom there, Sam. In both sentences......

Never did understand how some people think that the HR FuffandPuff approach was a good way to deal with a dispute.

You mean you don't have the "Those Found Here at Night, Will be Found Here in the Morning" signs?

We try to keep those in Sioux Falls. And then the biggest problem is dumping trash in a ditch, particularly 4th of July.

Did have a guy raising buffalo that had a problem. A couple "braves" decided that bufs were theirs and shot one to death with a .22. The geniuses got caught when they took it to a local locker plant for processing.


Oh now that would really piss them off 'cuz they know the worst you'll do is call the sheriff. Saves on legal fees that way.

Trail cameras anyone?

That'll teach 'em not to throw out those poaching pheasant hunters!

Makes perfect sense


I may try to get on new arrowhead ground this spring. If dude gets all assy....I'll try the Dr David Bruce Banner on him. "Mr. McGee, Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry"

Yup, this is by far the most likely scenario.

It must have been the Jews...

It’s the ethanol. Not only does it wreak havoc on small engine carburetors, it makes people crazy.