The dude with the boltcutters may have just lost the key to the chain he uses to secure his stand.
Sorry, I know you're upset, but the idea of staking out a claim to your own private hunting preserve on PUBLIC land made me laugh.
When I was teaching my wife to hunt, before we married, she wondered why we weren't going out during firearm deer season (11/15-11/30). So I took her out to the woods one day. Lots and lots of orange clad people out there. In some places, it looks almost like a field of pumpkins.
We only hunt public land. There is lots and lots of public land in Michigan. But firearm season in southern lower Michigan is just too crowded.