What Are No Trespassing Merit

Do No Trespassing Signs Have Legal Merit The property in Crested Butte, Colorado is on a major street in town, one street over from the main thoroughfare, Elk Avenue. Prior to having a fence in the front and a temporary fence in the back yard, there was ample evidence that the yard was a common walkway for people, bicycles, and animals (bears frequent our house often, probably due to the lack of residence and shrubbery in the back yard). There is also a no trespassing sign that is posted in the back yard, which after walking through the town is the only no trespassing sign posted in a yard. There are a few no parking signs; as well as, cones to keep people from parking in front of a home, but not a single no-trespassing sign. My family …show more content…
To look for relevance in thinking about the no trespassing sign in a yard, one would need to consider the relevance to their own feelings. In my case, I was concerned that there was history in Crested Butte with our family name of Arnott; therefore, any action that would be perceived by the town people or anyone who saw the no trespassing sign would tarnish our family name. Asking myself, how does this fact bear upon the issue (Paul & Elder, 2013. p. 32)? In thinking of the perception of other people, it does cause some source of concern, because the majority of the people live in town all year long; whereas, our family home is only frequented rarely from May – September. If the neighbors found the sign to be pretentious or obnoxious, they may not want to help if someone was found to be trespassing. Actually, since the sign has been posted, no one other than the person who is angry at our family has said anything about the sign directly to us. The family members talk to the neighbors when we visit and discuss the issue of people parking on our property and the no trespassing sign; consequently, there has been no one trespassing and the worn path that was present before the fences and sign were put up is no longer visible. Basically, the approach is working to keep trespassers off the property and we do not seem to have lost respect to our family name; furthermore, the town has changed a lot since the last Arnotts lived in Crested Butte full time, which ended in 1992 when Grace Katherine passed away (Arnott, 2012). There is not a significant Arnott presence in the town to really have much bearing on the sign in the yard; town people are mostly just relieved to see that some work is being done on the old