ORIGINAL: bucked off
This exact thing happened here in the town I livein and it cost the fence owner $1.5 million in damages when a kid (trespassing) hit the wire and caused severe lacerations to his face. The owner also had a grand jury indictment for criminal negligence. I don't understand some of your reasoning behind your comments, it's actions like this that tarnish the public's view of hunters.
No, see that is where you are wrong. If it is MY property, as some people have argued, I can build a parking lot or whatever the hell I want (staying within zoning laws), because it is MINE. The same thing goes for a one-stranded 3.5 ft tall fence. Its mine, and no one should be on my property that I don't know about, and the people I give access will know about the fence. How can you say that I can't build a fence with one strand on it but I can build anything else?? They broke the law by being there, it is their fault. Are you saying that if someone trespasses on my property and drowns in my pond, I should be sued for having a pond? Its the reasoning of the lawyers who represented those little punks in your town that are tarnishing America; not the actions of the farmer that are tarnishing hunters.