@@crystalbluebutterfly So you would let them suffer for weeks until they die? Nice! P.E.T.A. can, and often does mean People Eating Tasty Animals in my area.
I had one...till i painted his car in the middle of the night...Did i do it? he doesn't know nor could he prove i did nor didn't do it....But he let up....just in case...lol
@@bronzegod8037 This is Simple Granted land pass laws they are as old as the hills but hard to enforce the Judge will fix this and there are big fined for this if Allotted they will get to pass and now they can pass
There's always that one bully neighbour from hell who loves to make other people's lives difficult because they're so unhappy with their own pathetic miserable lives. Thankfully these wonderful people have gone through correct processes. Doesn't look like it's over but it's a start.
You understand that people can sue a landowner for things happening on their land, right? The landowner has to hire a lawyer and go through the nightmare of defending himself. Free to build your own road instead of using someone else's.
This one is easy. The recorded easement posted in all three deeds is a permanent private easement for all three property owners. The access area CANNOT legally be blocked off by any one of the owners from the other two property owners… ever. Law suites are coming and the idiot will most certainly loose. That guy is a complete ass, and he is wrong: I hope he is forced to pay damages and all attorneys fees too.
The new owner has no obligation to abide by a easement contract since he never signed the contract to begin with. My bet is his neighbor is such a prick so he blocked the road
@@captainclawsworth-yl6hb Wrong sunshine: that easement is an encumbering exception to the title for all three tracts, and runs with the land. Any title company knows that a recorded access easement is legally biding to all future successors in title. New owners MUST abide by the dictates of the easement - forever. Until all three owners agree to abandon that easement.
Maybe in your country but here in America i have never seen a case where a new is obligated to maintain easements off of old contracts. If I were him I would just put up a bunch of berms around the property or dig a lake or something
@@captainclawsworth-yl6hb Ok: I am a registered professional land surveyor in the USA. I write those same types of easements and land descriptions for land transactions for attorneys to add the legal documentation to and then record at county clerks offices. I have done so for over five decades and I have been involved in literally thousands of land transactions and plenty of them involved access easements. I know what I am talking about on this issue and I am not wrong.
@@captainclawsworth-yl6hb When Goodson bought the land the easement would have been in his deed even though he did not sign off on the easement it is binding on whoever owns that road. He cannot unilaterally undo what is in the deed.
Thank you, Shannon. You did great work in getting things moving. Yes they can take him to court but that's expensive and meantime stand to lose his livestock. People should realize when you own a brand, like Goodson Farms, that brand can suffer your own malice behavior.
Sounds to me like he wants to expand his property by pushing his neighbors out. "Do not wish harm on your neighbors when they are living in security beside you." Proverbs. For him to block access to those cows knowingly, he should also be charged with animal cruelty.
@@verreal Guess again - the USA wants control of the Ukraine/Russian border. That is why the USA encouraged the Ukraine to join NATO. Hence, if the Ukraine joins NATO, the USA has control of the border because NATO is just another name for USA.
I own the easement to multiple properties on my land and have no issues with neighbors at all. If he pulled this stunt in Texas it would fall under Texas Title 6 Easement Code, section 11 "Beat his ass" exception. Not sure if it's documented, but it's a law we believe in.
What a horrible person that did this to his neighbors! Hopefully those affected have found some justice and the individual responsible has been held accountable both legally as well as financially.
They'll probably get him creamed in court. Ricky will sure have pie on his face after that. The fruits of their labor will berry [bury] him in the legal system for years to come.
The guy with the cows should be able to get immediate injunctive relief since their lives are at risk. How anyone could do something to endanger innocent livestock is appaling.
@@rdmah75 PLEASE Peta does NOTHING they dont give a crap Unless they are getting free Publicity. Get the Humane society and farm Laws against animal cruelty
@@rdmah75 PETA doesn't believe in keeping cattle, so, they would have them all put down immediately, just like they do with animal shelters they run; they are 100%-kill shelters. They are kitty/puppy concentration camps run by PETA.
Tow that crap out of the way, If an old farmer can destroy a cat for parking in the easement, then it's perfectly within the rights to just force move that blockage. If they have a problem with it let them pay the court costs....
@@ninersix2790 Or no lawyer in the jurisdiction had the combination of the time, the right price, and the spine to take on the lazy/corrupt establishment.
Because noone in the county wanted to spend time on it when folks keep breathing down their necks about other stuff. Good chance that noone in the county government was even slightly familiar with the property.
Government departments are typically understaffed and minimally funded. So it takes a long time for them to get through all issues. The news made them look bad, so they pushed this issue to the top of the priority list.
After the news got involved they didn't want everyone to figure out how incompetent they are and because they are far to busy drinking coffee and having meetings to do their jobs.
Easements are a beautiful, ancient and time-honored way to grant access to land-locked neighbors. The new owner is ignorant of these laws and customs. And he refuses to be informed. He is headed for a great loss.I suggest they sue for the permanent ownership of the land described in the original easements.
Honestly that neighbor is lucky that policing or even society is so modernized now that folks don't just drag him out to the woods to settle the issue.
Back in the day the entire town would know about it and they would all shun him everywhere he went. Probably would have refused him service of any kind at the local stores telling him to go somewhere else.
@@Thanatos_808 Definitely goodson is a bad son and needs his ass kicked; here in AZ, that's what would have happened to this "bully". Goodson, you are a pathetic clown.
My grandfather insisted on purchasing the easement officially back in the 60s from his neighbor. He always said, cover your bases. Years later that Neighbor was logging and started cutting trees on his property dispute started over who owned the trees in my granddad was right. To get back at my granddad the man tried blocking the road. But forgot he had sold that narrow strip of land decades before. Block road was cleared and almost instantly.
This guy needs to be charged with cruelty to animals. That is a bigger fine than just stopping access. Don't think he understands what kind of legal battle he just started and will not win.
Had a friend that had a hunting cabin in the woods of Wisconsin, it also came with an easement that was over 100 years old. New owners came along, tried to fence them out and threatened them with guns. Turns out, the new owners were all cops from Illinois. Local PD talked to them but wouldn’t take any action and the cops started a harassment campaign that went on for years until one of the cops slept with the wife of the other cop and the property got sold in the divorce. New owners are great.
That dude is in the wrong and Deputies should have been able to read the agreements and enforced this. I have had to do this in SWFL, this also denies Emergency Equipment to get to the location which should be a Fire Code Violation as well.
now if there a emergency and they could not access the property then would this fall on the county and code inforcement and whom ever gives these wright's it seems these laws are an implementation of total disregard.
@@enturnetrol7869 Since the property was just sold in less then 10 years the easement would still be valid. As, Law, EMT and Fire cannot get there Directly. Which makes it an actual Crime if barricaded. For an easement to be invalid it is over 25 years of not in use, by All Parties to include property, Electric, Cable, and so on.
The deputy will most likely say it's a civil case and theres nothing he can do. You have two people saying that car or that part of the property is there's or 3 than the deputy would say something like that.
A friend in Idaho had his easement blocked with a locked gate. He said “don’t worry, I have the combination to the lock”, it’s 30 06, got out of his truck and shot the lock off.
Ultimately this is a land grab. Not just of the easement, but Ricky Goodson knew if he could claim the easement then the other owners' two chunks of property would become landlocked & inaccessible, making them virtually worthless. He could then buy those property owners out & get their property for dirt cheap. Thankfully, the courts sided with the other landlords in 2023 & the Goodson lawsuit to claim the easement was throw out of court. I hope karma comes for that scammer & cheater trying to claim what isn't his.
This type of farm fighting has been happening for decades. We have a property in the middle of another and it's similar to this senerio. Easements are not owned by anyone but people fight over this all the time.
no one should be buying anything from that farm. there is absolutely no reason for him to do what he is doing other then trying to get them to sell their properties so he can buy them. he doesn't deserve patron's. no one wants weird neighbors moving in who have a vindictive, narcissistic personality, he will never see his wrong. in his mind he is right and will push it to the end. weird.
They need to show the pictures of those skinny cows side by side with his farm sign and tell how he blocked access to feed the cows so they would starve to death and let the animal welfare activist do the rest!
Everyone talking about "poor cows" but imagine if the elderly couple had a medical emergency and the emt was unable to get to their home. who is liable for that?
Great question! I’d love to hear the answer. Guess they’d have to get CareFlight, and hope for the best. All because this dude wants to be a complete douche canoe.
That's what I was thinking when he was dragging back that temporary barbed wire fence. He was talking about his wife trying to leave for an everyday task. What if it was an emergency?
Well when the fire truck or ambulance arrives and theres a big thing blocking the way,they will have to call in mover equipment to get access, the guy who put it there will be arrested and fined and billed and likely charged with other things.
Two farmers had a dispute just like that near me. The farmer needing access had a legally binding easement issued by the previous owner of the land and lucky for them they still had the documents. If they didn't have those documents it would have been hard to prove as the previous owner had passed many years ago.
Love it! Need more reporters like this and actually helping people out and getting useful info out to the rest of us. Glad journalistic integrity still exists out there.
@@larrymartineau7507 He lost the reporter on his own though, (who is only human). Deny what was written on all the deeds, then tell them to fly in with a helicopter or dig a tunnel. He didn't leave any room for objectivity.
As a professional surveyor, I would like to see that recorded easement and how it's worded. If the adjoining land owners were wrongly denied enjoyment of that easement because of Goodson's actions... I smell a BIG lawsuit coming.
@@davebrunson125 @ 1:30 they say that the easement was included in the purchase for all three properties (so it would be recorded). The docs are too blurry to read, but if what they are saying is true and that seems to be the case based on code enforcement actually doing something. The guy is either trying to drive his neighbors off the land to grab it up cheaply, He's being a deliberate ass, or he can't read. Odds are good for all three.
@@thomasschulz2167 I heard that, there are a couple problems The original owner may have not registered the easement, so it's verbal and means nothing. I don't think that's the problem. From the little things mentioned I believe it's an Utility easement. That allows Utility companies to use the easement for drainage, water, sewer, power lines. It's still private property that does not allow anybody and their brother to use the easement. Example the RR owns a 50ft easement on my property. Only the RR is allowed to access it, in fact the RR allowed ATT to run a line on it and all the property owners sued the RR for misuse of the easement and won. Anybody other than official RR use is trespassing. I also had another yard that had a drainage easement, same thing. Just because a deed says easement that doesn't necessarily mean public access. People that buy landlocked property get screwed all the time. There needs to be a registered public access easement.
@@thomasschulz2167 There is an obscure rule "Color of Law" some states say "Quiet Title" basically squatters rights. Where a person uses private property in full view of the owner and public for 7-12 years, it's their property/ easement. The owner took action so it's an uphill battle for them They'll probably win in lower court but lose in appeals, where emotion is null and only actual law as written counts
I can understand it if that road runs through the middle of your property, but this is to the side. And I believe in the golden rule of having good neighbors, You might need them one day.
I was fired from my job years ago when I would not put a padlock up for the rancher I worked for when he wanted to block his neighbor's easement through his property. Getting fired from that job was the best thing to ever happen to me, since the rancher was quite the jerk.
@Peter Griffin Yeah, but I wasn't sure if Jerk Rancher had a spare. Besides, the other things he did to his neighbors were criminal (like burying a screw-embedded board in their driveway), and I was more than happy to get off that ranch. Of course, I didn't find out about the horrors until after I was fired.
We share a right of way with our neighbors, a pork farm and with the utility company. We also allow neighborhood children and adults to access property through our own so they can use public ATV trails.... everyone is respectful, courteous and takes care of the right of way. I could never imagine being this big of a dick, and the only reason I would ever say anything is if someone was using my property for something illegal, or just being an ass-hat and tearing it up. After 20+ years in the family, there's never been an issue.
Cudos and respect to you for being a straight up kind human. Years ago but I have a buddy that lost his wife and neighbor to a easement dispute Some people just have mental issues
I think the important thing to understand is if you share property with a neighbor (very common on farms and condos) you don't have exclusive ownership over it and you don't have the same property rights. That's why there are condo boards (HOAs) and Village Code Enforcement boards. The alternative is for the city to just take the property for themself and they will handle the maintenance and taxes go up. But by sharing the small bit of property amongst 3 owners, you don't have to have the government running all of the streets (which is very hard in rural areas).
That’s what easements are for. I had 10 acres outside of Bushnell years ago and I had to give up easement on two sides of my property for land owners. I never questioned it. It’s the right thing to do when your property is on platted lines.
Pretty sure that right of access can't be denied in most if not all States. I wonder what the background to this dispute is all about. I'll bet you the land owner is asking for money " due to his unusable" acreage.
We had a similar problem. easement was through the corner of a neighbors property and he put up a fence. We called the Sheriff out, showed him the paperwork, and cut down the fence with him there.
Glad that the county and code enforcement did the right thing for the property owners. Now everybody needs to team up and not buy anything from goodson farms hopefully through all the people they can force this idiot to go broke!!
Legally no property can be sold landlocked. All must have easements of some sort. The three owners that are landlocked need to sue the person refusing to allow the easement and they'll win with no problem. the dog picture to the reporter was implying that she was something rhymes with the word ditch
Usually this happens when the other neighbors won't help maintain the easement. They want access but want the owner to maintain the easement so in some cases there's a legitimate reason to block the access and have issue resolved in court
@@wiggwam1 Maintaining the easement is not a monthly task...You only fill in potholes when needed and in Florida that is MAYBE once a year...They can have a friendly meeting and split the bill or take turns doing it...It's just filling them in with the dirt that has washed to the sides...As you can tell, I, a woman, has done it myself...The guy is a Richard nickname...Mr. Dick is going to pay up the "Ying Yang" and may even lose the farm...There is no LAW that makes blocking the easement "Legitimate"...It is also illogical...No judge wants to own the illogical tag...
I had a neighbor up north try to do something similar by building a metal fence in the driveway. Angle grinder made short work of it. Lol. Then he put it back and I cut it, he put it back and I cut it again. Then he gave up. It would’ve taken awhile to angle grinder an entire tracker though.
@Mr. Capital Gains Never been to ranch have you ? You are aware that is where your steak comes from and your milk and cheese, correct ? Or maybe you attended Trump University....covfefe
If anyone was on their property when he blocked it,,its kid napping...dude did the same crap here and he went to prison for it..This isn't legal, you cant land lock people
There is no reason to do this... Prayers for this man, that he opens his heart... That he sees what he does hurts others. Together we are one... each a single drop... raising the ocean...
We had a similar issue on our Bandon property and had to go to court. Our easement went back to the 1940’s . We did win but now have a hostile neighbor. Outright of way affected three properties
When we had similar problems - we called our local fire department - they agreed that the neighbor was endangering life and property by preventing fire trucks from reaching our property in the event of a fire. They sent the fire chief to have a quiet chat with him. Problem was solved without a lawsuit.
@@jackhall729 The guy who has the easement on his land is NOT OWED anything toward his tax bill. You have some crazy ideas. If you own a home in a city and there is a sidewalk then there is an easement on your property. You cannot build on or block the sidewalk and you are responsible if you fail to maintain it and someone falls because it is your property. Are you always this dense?
@@SteveBakerIsHere The tax bill the owner pays easement users don't have to pay or help with that part of the deal. In another words they get the use of it for FREE..So when tax time comes maybe you should offer up some help..
@@jackhall729 Some share of property taxes you mean? I'd agree with that EXCEPT that by using the easement, you're not denying the owner the use of it too...perhaps somewhat limiting their kinds of use. But typically, the existence of an easement on a property does devalue it somewhat - and that means that the owner is paying less property taxes for that reason. On very large properties (like farms) where the land price figures heavily into the amount of taxation, the percentage of the land that's covered by the easement is going to be a negligible proportion of the tax bill anyway...and on small properties (like people's houses) the tax is almost entirely calculated on the value of the house itself - and again, the easement doesn't really factor much into it. So, no - I have never offered to pay any of the owners taxes.
Amen!!! The easements are in the deed, which means he can't block it. It's illegal. Soon as she said easement is in the deed. It was game over. He has no right or leg to stand on if goes to court. That guy is silly. Is ignorance really fckn bliss? Or just friggin embarrassing? Smh
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket May be a crime. Should not call something a crime unless you know for a fact that it is which you do not. If the blocking of the easement is legal then he is not liable for anything that happens to the animals. Maybe they should see about putting in their own road or see about purchasing the rights to travel the private road. That may be a private road but if one snowplow for the state touches even an inch of the road then it is no longer private. If the city put the road in then it is not a private road.
Had a guy buy the place next to mine and he put up a cable blocking the road that ran along the edge of his place onto my property .My first evidence in court was that the road was not just some gentlemans agreement easement from years ago but was in fact an unmaintained county road plotted out years ago and never taken of the registry .I won the case
Great job Shannon! Thank you for being a great journalist and the fact that you followed through... Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for helping these farmers. That dude is obviously just a hateful man.
@@WindTurbineSyndrome Would be funny if the guy actually bought a helicopter then hovered over the assholes house at 2am every morning dropping off sewerage.
This happens more than you would think. My wife and her sister are currently dealing with the same situation. With the exception that it's her cousin, aunt and uncle preventing them access after they paid just over 20,000 to improve the only road access they had to their mothers property. For a decade their mother let them hunt and traverse her property freely. Pure trash.
@@garagekeys well a lot of States also have language for hand shake deals, if it's always been that way who knows a verbal deal is a contract and if Great Uncle Bob and Great Uncle John shook on it and it was always used as such then it's pretty much the way it is. More difficult, but not impossible. My State of Colorado you have the legal right to access your property through another. If you were setting something up to split property then to be able to sell it you would have to create an easement you can not just sell 100 acres that has no access. That in Colorado is illegal. The person that has the property (at this point access was probably created 100 years ago) can use that old road/trail and improve it and use it to access their property. Where in CO we have had legal battles is a property owner says that other property should take a different route to get out (usually new folk moving to an area not understanding how things work). They usually loose in court because in the end the easement was being used for 150 years why would the locked property owner need to spend money to create a new right of way. Where this is tried more here is a person will go buy property in the National Forest, the USFS has a road going through and that city slicker then puts of gates and blocks. Now the Forest service has to spend your tax dollars to fight that property owner and it can take many many years. I ran into a case of this on a motorcycle ride. Reported it and was told I was unlucky I happen to come across a property issue. Dude thinks his property came with a nice graded dirt road just to it...LOL It's always some city slicker that moved out to the country trying to pull this stuff.
@@josephhodges9819 Yeah they can. If the fines accumulate to a high enough amount, they can seize his land and auction it off in order to recuperate the amount owed on the fines.
Those cows are not starving they have a whole pasture full of grass. Those of you that are whining and crying about the cows need fed evidently have never been a farmer. Bones always show on heifers after they calf. The people that are boohoo crying are people that live in the city and know absolutely nothing about cattle. The guy with the cows in the orange shirt he's just a crybaby you can tell by his demeanor or his attitude that he came after the original landowner with an attitude.
Old dude is going to lose big time. I'm a surveying tech with enough experience to have seen this same scenario play out a few times. If you have three recorded documents that describe the same ingress & egress easement to said properties, the guy being the a$$ doesn't have a leg to stand on.
Amen!!! The easements are in the deed, which means he can't block it. It's illegal. Soon as she said easement is in the deed. It was game over. He has no right or leg to stand on if goes to court. That guy is silly. Is ignorance really fckn bliss? Or just friggin embarrassing? Smh
The guy blocking access to that land should be held legally accountable for any and all death or damages to the cattle or property of any kind what reason would anyone have to be doing something like this to a nabour or anyone unbelievable
We have a similar issue here in hood river oregon... when pacific power surrendered the land that once held copper dam it was returned to public use... but the only easment to access the land has been blocked by an adjacent land ownere... blocking the public fron accessing public lands...
No way that water tank would stop me from moving that crap out of the way! I would be like 'how kind of him to give me a nice target to shoot at'. Sorry I thought your grass needed some water LOL!
If there is a legal easement, any blockage is criminal.. and subject to removal by bulldozer or cutting torch. And the perp needs to be jailed! or... ( can't say on youtube)
yes, and if anyone is on the property when it was blocked, its kid napping..i would have stayed in my house and called the fbi if the cops would have done anything..fighting over land that is stolen in the first place..have a fit over land but not about taxes or any other real shit you should be mad about..sheep
Was probably a handshake deal between farmers 50 years ago. To legally sell land, it has to have a legal easement, but who's to say they didn't assume it was after decades of use.
Ive been a realtor for over 50 years and the right of way is recorded on all three properties on the deeds ( warranty deeds). End of conversation and the judge will make this bully pay.
My family has been in the ranching business a long time and my 80+ year old dad would bring in his bulldozer and keep moving anything he put up, if the guy isn't reasonable. My dad is a very giving man but he won't put up with a sh!tty neighbor like this guy. Thank guy for great owners of our surrounding properties.
Amen!!! The easements are in the deed, which means he can't block it. It's illegal. Soon as she said easement is in the deed. It was game over. He has no right or leg to stand on if goes to court. That guy is silly. Is ignorance really fckn bliss? Or just friggin embarrassing? Smh
Yup, I would have a copy of the deed with me and the highlighted part, be armed and be happy to buy a big ass dozer and I would push, pull and smash any abandoned property left on the easement. The signs, they would have been cut down right when I saw them, wood ain't cheap so I have some new 4x4's and signs.
Thats right use someone's land for free that they pay the tax bill on,but thats how you farmers get what you have right? between the gov and daddy everything you have you got for free...then run around in your 100,000 dollar trucks paid for by the tax payers crying about how hard you have it right?
@@999pr1 Your way off on your city boy idea ! and yes i'm tired of seeing these so called farmers riding around in those 100,000 dollar tax payers paid for trucks while crying about how they have so hard..
Easements are part of our culture. Utilities have them everywhere. If they are part of the deed they are legal. I think this guy is trying to put the squeeze on these people so he can buy their property at dirt cheap prices. He should be fined several $1000 every day and that money should be given to the people that he inconvenienced
I think the neighbors should, in addition to their current actions, fight fire with fire. Homie wouldn't get another night's uninterrupted sleep after this.
Well some ppl wont tolerate some ppl disturbing them like that somethn bad could happen to the ones disturbing that person these ppl standn out in front of ppls homes may do that just one to many times.
Somebody took all his toy's away when he was a kid. So now I'm a Bully and a Hothead, and the only way to fix a hot head is to sue sue sue then put a restraining order against him and his family due to any recourse's that will follow.
No land for sale should be landlocked ever, If easements can't be enforced with swift consequences for those who try and block them, then I would say that's a hard pass on buying that property.
What a total jerk. Must be one miserable man to block off access like that. If keep an eye on on him.. It's people like that that snap and go blow up innocent people
Those cattle are not starving I raise cattle. In case you haven't noticed because you live in the comfort of a city there's 80 acres of grass there those cattle can eat and guess what hay is dried grass
@@unknownuser2737 You own xattle? ... So you know that there're times of year that they need supplemental feed, that not all grass is the same and the number of cows matters. So you own cattle?
@@ptaylor4923 no I don't own cattle. I heard there's a low-life smartass named P Taylor that knows everything about cattle so I got out of the cattle business to wait for the know-it-all Taylor to step in and take care of it.
@@unknownuser2737 blah blah blah Like I said before, there is a reason the guy is feeding his cattle. Just because YOU don't know that reason does not make him wrong. You have no idea what the situation is on that land, nor the needs of that specific herd.
I would use my truck to move the obstruction whenever I needed access.. If law enforcement won't get involved and enforce a legal binding ducument they are not going to get involved in a vehicle placement issue either.. The county will eventually get him to comply but it's not up to you to wait for it to play out to access what's legally yours.. Move the vehicle , post, or fence that he places in order to block your access by whatever means necessary..His claims be damned
Wonder why Goodson won't speak up to explain his position on the easement? I saw a bad episode on ID discovery with a situation like this that didn't end well. Always remember two sides to every story then the truth.
Sounds a lot like the ass of a "neighbor" is trying to force the others to sell to him, at rock bottom prices, no doubt. He needs to be sued, often and for any and all reasons any lawyer can come up with.
What's even more amazing is Code Enforcement taking its sweet time deciding he's wrong then more time making him move his junk. Methinks he's related to somebody in Code Enforcement. Or the Mayor. Small town America is like that. Jerks are jerks only because they know they can get away with it.
Tampa isn't exactly small town and if you do a search on Goodson farms seems that family business has a history of breaking the law and getting caught 😂
@Bonka that is also how abusers, theives and druggies get away with bullying people. I didn't have friends in high places and I was almost MURDERED in a small town and NOONE FUCKING CARED. I had to sell my possesions and move, because I was literally the target of hate crimes weekly. Anyone who suggests that "might makes right" and "whoever has more friends willing to use violence is the winner" is a moron, and you should be ashamed... I hope noone you love is ever the victim of abuse and their abusers get away with it because they are well-connected.
If they can sue goodson (lower case on purpose) into the ground perhaps they can buy his lad and then they will not need an easement. This should not have gone so far. The easment would be recorded on goodson's deed too. They have a legal right to access the easement. I have an easement on my own property for the local power company to access the power transformer in my front yard and the poles that run down the backbone of the block. If they want in, I can't stop them. (Not that I would, I like electric lights)
The guy should obviously be immediately sued in civil court but also in criminal court for animal cruelty! I don't know why judge doesn't issue a temporary injunction to allow passage until it's decided as well.
For some strange reason the property owners took their problem to a TV station when they should have gone to see a lawyer, as the matter is incredibly easy to resolve, assuming we were told correctly, that the three parcels have deeded access rights down that track.
@@pulaski1 lawyers cost money and waiting for a court date and a decision to be reached takes time , calling a tv station got results much quicker and for free .
@@unknownuser2737 Okay smart guy. What happens in the winter? The cattle will starve unless he can get into the property with hay. If he needs to get a vet in with equipment or needs to get the cattle out? That is animal cruelty since it is preventing proper care of his herd.
The other residents have been using the right of way for 17 years, making it fall under "dominion right of way". Even if that jackass does own the strip of land, he or a former owner have only 7 years to enforce their rights. We need a class action law suit here.
Here in Missouri the land owner does have the right to put as many gates on the easement as he chooses and passers must open them but no law states that they have to close them.
When somebody blocks you like that you can officially charge them with unlawful detention in a civil lawsuit and sue him for the amount of his property then put a lien on his property
@@mefirst4266 False imprisonment is an act punishable under criminal law as well as under tort law. Under tort law, it is classified as an intentional tort. A a person commits false imprisonment when he commits an act of restraint on another person which confines that person in a bounded area.
@@D.Garcia007 Actually, when it comes to the retired firefighter and his wide, the second he blocked them from getting out of their home... there's probably an aspect of that in all states. I hadn't thought of that before, but with them, it's their home & it is keeping an older woman from freely leaving.
@@ptaylor4923 when you do something against anyone 65 or older or 14 and under it bumps up one felony in the law now if he's handicapped it bumps up another one he can actually end up 20 years in prison for that
This is ridiculous, an over reach by all . There no excuse why the other farmers can’t get through to fee their animals, which is animal abuse if their starved by this over reach. And others get to their homes. This is crazy that it’s denying a entry to get to their needs. So these two should file a law suit together….for their rights by Jude or local gov. Or whom ever stamped on their rights, and not allow their access.
Many years ago in NSW Australia I looked at a farm that had shared easement I refused to purchase that property just in case this could have happened to me.
My dad had the opposite problem. A person bought a landlocked property behind property my dad owned. This person ordered - yes, the letter actually said it was an order - my dad to either give him an easement or to buy the property at a price he set. This man knew my dad and should have known that wouldn't work. The man sued. We responded by showing that there was an easement to a different road. He withdrew the case. Turns out, the reason he was ordering my dad was that my dad had cleared the land, and the other fellow didn't want to go to the considerable expense of cutting down the trees on the existing easement. The thing is, even though my dad didn't like the guy, if he had politely asked my dad would have given him the easement.
@@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 It was two old bulls butting heads. Best thing for that is to get some popcorn and watch the fun. My dad was generous, and an easement wouldn't have been a problem. But ordering him was not the right approach.
On all easements it is the landlocked person's responsibility to keep the easement clear. You also see this on utility company easements. They keep the land and trees cleared.
Great ! Proof that if you act respectfully, you will be treate the same , problem solved !!! Like Dalton said , Be nice ! Until it’s time to not be nice !!! I prefer nice , and most smart people do too !!!👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏👆🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Wait, Goodson farms is a WELL KNOWN strawberry farm! This needs to be noted! Who would want to do any business with this jerk??!!! Not me! In fact I wonder how many have got sick from his nasty rotten strawberry shortcake? I think I saw a bug in mine!! I think she needs to draw a little more attention to who this Goodson is!!! It would have an effect on his farm income and it needs to!! Let's all leave a proper fitting review!!! All's fair and love and property access!!
Don't buy anything from Goodson Farms. Unbelievable. Bring back tar and feathering.
Call em in the morning…. Is salt good for crops? Lol
Good son needs to meet with a serious accident
Put him under a cattle guard.
@@deanbaker1905 someone has been watching YELLOWSTONE. Lol
@@HESSIAN578 better under a cattle guard then a ride to the train station right.
I cannot understand how people can be so hateful and so miserable these days and that is cruel to animals
45 ring a bell?
@@josephaltman460 rent free tds
Well their all conservative christians for one! 2. Their true patriots!
@@josephaltman460 45 caliber? Yep, I have 2.
@@crystalbluebutterfly So you would let them suffer for weeks until they die? Nice!
P.E.T.A. can, and often does mean People Eating Tasty Animals in my area.
The person blocking the land should be charged with animal cruelty
And bills for their accomodations if the land owners have to check into a hotel.
Shareholder profits matter more 📈
Thanks for the Media for helping the property owners to regain access.
BS not thanks to the Media?!?!😅
No stress like having a bad neighbor.
You've got that right, it's horrible. Even if the law is on you're side it takes FOREVER to get anything done.
Ain't that the truth..
Yes and those ppl are bad neighbors.
@@dwightherrington7793 not so according to Tx real estate law.
I had one...till i painted his car in the middle of the night...Did i do it? he doesn't know nor could he prove i did nor didn't do it....But he let up....just in case...lol
Those other landowners can take him to court, and he'll lose a large piece of property in that lawsuit.
How?
@@bronzegod8037 This is Simple Granted land pass laws they are as old as the hills but hard to enforce the Judge will fix this and there are big fined for this if Allotted they will get to pass and now they can pass
Yes if they had an easement in the purchase contract then it will become country road property. Sue them.
I would love the address to pay the good old boy vist !!!
@@glitter_fart 🤣 that would be awesome!
There's always that one bully neighbour from hell who loves to make other people's lives difficult because they're so unhappy with their own pathetic miserable lives. Thankfully these wonderful people have gone through correct processes. Doesn't look like it's over but it's a start.
UPDATE: “The Goodson family deeds do not reflect that anybody owns an easement across their property,” (from the court case)
@@TEverettReynolds Actually ALL the deeds showed the easement. Goodson lost the case against the Nessmith's and dropped his case against the Barnes's.
Just when you though you'd dodged dealing with an HOA!
@@TEverettReynoldshe was trying to force them to sell
You understand that people can sue a landowner for things happening on their land, right? The landowner has to hire a lawyer and go through the nightmare of defending himself.
Free to build your own road instead of using someone else's.
Last time I heard of someone getting their easement blocked they built armor for a tractor and built the legendary "Killdozer"
This one is easy. The recorded easement posted in all three deeds is a permanent private easement for all three property owners.
The access area CANNOT legally be blocked off by any one of the owners from the other two property owners… ever.
Law suites are coming and the idiot will most certainly loose. That guy is a complete ass, and he is wrong: I hope he is forced to pay damages and all attorneys fees too.
The new owner has no obligation to abide by a easement contract since he never signed the contract to begin with. My bet is his neighbor is such a prick so he blocked the road
@@captainclawsworth-yl6hb
Wrong sunshine: that easement is an encumbering exception to the title for all three tracts, and runs with the land. Any title company knows that a recorded access easement is legally biding to all future successors in title. New owners MUST abide by the dictates of the easement - forever.
Until all three owners agree to abandon that easement.
Maybe in your country but here in America i have never seen a case where a new is obligated to maintain easements off of old contracts. If I were him I would just put up a bunch of berms around the property or dig a lake or something
@@captainclawsworth-yl6hb
Ok: I am a registered professional land surveyor in the USA. I write those same types of easements and land descriptions for land transactions for attorneys to add the legal documentation to and then record at county clerks offices.
I have done so for over five decades and I have been involved in literally thousands of land transactions and plenty of them involved access easements.
I know what I am talking about on this issue and I am not wrong.
@@captainclawsworth-yl6hb When Goodson bought the land the easement would have been in his deed even though he did not sign off on the easement it is binding on whoever owns that road. He cannot unilaterally undo what is in the deed.
Boycott Goodson Farm!
That man should be arrested for animal abuse
Thank you, Shannon. You did great work in getting things moving. Yes they can take him to court but that's expensive and meantime stand to lose his livestock. People should realize when you own a brand, like Goodson Farms, that brand can suffer your own malice behavior.
Sounds to me like he wants to expand his property by pushing his neighbors out. "Do not wish harm on your neighbors when they are living in security beside you." Proverbs. For him to block access to those cows knowingly, he should also be charged with animal cruelty.
@Coleen, I agree
Maybe he was feeding their cows. Lol
Animal cruelty??? As if breeding them into existence for the sole purpose of capitalizing off of their dead bodies isn’t inherently cruel. Duh!!!
Ricky Bobby is going to get in some big trouble and pay hefty fines! Then when he loses the law suits well Ricky Bobby better have some deep pockets!
@@verreal Guess again - the USA wants control of the Ukraine/Russian border. That is why the USA encouraged the Ukraine to join NATO. Hence, if the Ukraine joins NATO, the USA has control of the border because NATO is just another name for USA.
I own the easement to multiple properties on my land and have no issues with neighbors at all. If he pulled this stunt in Texas it would fall under Texas Title 6 Easement Code, section 11 "Beat his ass" exception. Not sure if it's documented, but it's a law we believe in.
I like that law😁
People shouldn't mess with people that own land and excavators
We always called it a black eye move.
It works for Idiots who are too dumb, and or Obstinate to comply.
does it have a Louisville Slugger usage clause ? if it doesnt, it should.
The state should come in also and take ownership of the road and end this crap
What a horrible person that did this to his neighbors!
Hopefully those affected have found some justice and the individual responsible has been held accountable both legally as well as financially.
I hope Goodsons farm goes under for this stupid actions!
@@matildabishops9196
God Willing.
We are not going to buy strawberries from Goodson farm
They'll probably get him creamed in court. Ricky will sure have pie on his face after that. The fruits of their labor will berry [bury] him in the legal system for years to come.
there ya go let his produce rot on the vine hell get smart real fast. boycott
@@mayoman8565 yes blocking access is a rotten thing to do
Tell everybody!
The guy with the cows should be able to get immediate injunctive relief since their lives are at risk. How anyone could do something to endanger innocent livestock is appaling.
Yes you are correct!
Cruelty to animals is a huge offense.
Hope they get Peta involved.
Think the guy opened up the wrong box of worms!
@@rdmah75 PLEASE Peta does NOTHING they dont give a crap Unless they are getting free Publicity. Get the Humane society and farm Laws against animal cruelty
@@rdmah75 PETA doesn't believe in keeping cattle, so, they would have them all put down immediately, just like they do with animal shelters they run; they are 100%-kill shelters. They are kitty/puppy concentration camps run by PETA.
damm rite
Thank God for people like you guys resolving these issues so people and animals could be happy once again
Tow that crap out of the way, If an old farmer can destroy a cat for parking in the easement, then it's perfectly within the rights to just force move that blockage. If they have a problem with it let them pay the court costs....
The question not asked is why it took a journalist pestering the county for days to get the county to FINALLY take a look at the complaint.
Because no land owner wanted to hire a Lawyer.
@@ninersix2790 Or no lawyer in the jurisdiction had the combination of the time, the right price, and the spine to take on the lazy/corrupt establishment.
Because noone in the county wanted to spend time on it when folks keep breathing down their necks about other stuff. Good chance that noone in the county government was even slightly familiar with the property.
Government departments are typically understaffed and minimally funded.
So it takes a long time for them to get through all issues. The news made them look bad, so they pushed this issue to the top of the priority list.
After the news got involved they didn't want everyone to figure out how incompetent they are and because they are far to busy drinking coffee and having meetings to do their jobs.
Easements are a beautiful, ancient and time-honored way to grant access to land-locked neighbors. The new owner is ignorant of these laws and customs. And he refuses to be informed. He is headed for a great loss.I suggest they sue for the permanent ownership of the land described in the original easements.
it's rude
Honestly that neighbor is lucky that policing or even society is so modernized now that folks don't just drag him out to the woods to settle the issue.
@@Thanatos_808 agreed
Back in the day the entire town would know about it and they would all shun him everywhere he went. Probably would have refused him service of any kind at the local stores telling him to go somewhere else.
@@Thanatos_808 Definitely goodson is a bad son and needs his ass kicked; here in AZ, that's what would have happened to this "bully". Goodson, you are a pathetic clown.
Was a time when a man that blocked access to property on an easement wouldn't be seeing sunrise the next morning.
The good ole days.
My grandfather insisted on purchasing the easement officially back in the 60s from his neighbor. He always said, cover your bases. Years later that Neighbor was logging and started cutting trees on his property dispute started over who owned the trees in my granddad was right. To get back at my granddad the man tried blocking the road. But forgot he had sold that narrow strip of land decades before. Block road was cleared and almost instantly.
This guy needs to be charged with cruelty to animals.
That is a bigger fine than just stopping access.
Don't think he understands what kind of legal battle he just started and will not win.
Yall are too nice. I'd cut that equipment into chunks
@@killercuddles7051 Yeah, that shit would have lasted about a day.
@@killercuddles7051 Free scrap and water storage for the cows!
@@xB2KxRewindZ that would be theft. stealing is wrong. 2 wrongs dont make a right.
Just MOOve it.
This guy don’t give a shit!
Had a friend that had a hunting cabin in the woods of Wisconsin, it also came with an easement that was over 100 years old. New owners came along, tried to fence them out and threatened them with guns. Turns out, the new owners were all cops from Illinois. Local PD talked to them but wouldn’t take any action and the cops started a harassment campaign that went on for years until one of the cops slept with the wife of the other cop and the property got sold in the divorce. New owners are great.
Illinois cops aren’t cops they’re crooks, the only good law enforcement in this shitty state are sheriffs
LOL!!
And so it goes...humans 🙃
Cool story bro. Tell me another but make it about fish this time.
@@nobodyspecial4702 there once was a fish, he swam up down the pond all day and was content.
The end.
What was the final outcome. Is there a follow up store to this.
Thank you guys for helping these helpless people!
That dude is in the wrong and Deputies should have been able to read the agreements and enforced this. I have had to do this in SWFL, this also denies Emergency Equipment to get to the location which should be a Fire Code Violation as well.
now if there a emergency and they could not access the property then would this fall on the county and code inforcement and whom ever gives these wright's
it seems these laws are an implementation of total disregard.
Cops are getting more and more useless
@@enturnetrol7869 when civil issues turn into harassment and endangerment it no longer is civil.
@@enturnetrol7869 Since the property was just sold in less then 10 years the easement would still be valid. As, Law, EMT and Fire cannot get there Directly. Which makes it an actual Crime if barricaded.
For an easement to be invalid it is over 25 years of not in use, by All Parties to include property, Electric, Cable, and so on.
The deputy will most likely say it's a civil case and theres nothing he can do. You have two people saying that car or that part of the property is there's or 3 than the deputy would say something like that.
A friend in Idaho had his easement blocked with a locked gate. He said “don’t worry, I have the combination to the lock”, it’s 30 06, got out of his truck and shot the lock off.
Bolt cutters may work better, but they're less fun.
or just watch the lock picking lawyer
the fleet rental yard had an actual combination of 3-0-0-6 on the main gate
@@denisrhodes54 He's good!
Harsh, but effective.
Ultimately this is a land grab. Not just of the easement, but Ricky Goodson knew if he could claim the easement then the other owners' two chunks of property would become landlocked & inaccessible, making them virtually worthless. He could then buy those property owners out & get their property for dirt cheap.
Thankfully, the courts sided with the other landlords in 2023 & the Goodson lawsuit to claim the easement was throw out of court. I hope karma comes for that scammer & cheater trying to claim what isn't his.
This type of farm fighting has been happening for decades. We have a property in the middle of another and it's similar to this senerio. Easements are not owned by anyone but people fight over this all the time.
no one should be buying anything from that farm. there is absolutely no reason for him to do what he is doing other then trying to get them to sell their properties so he can buy them. he doesn't deserve patron's. no one wants weird neighbors moving in who have a vindictive, narcissistic personality, he will never see his wrong. in his mind he is right and will push it to the end. weird.
Should be buying?
They need to show the pictures of those skinny cows side by side with his farm sign and tell how he blocked access to feed the cows so they would starve to death and let the animal welfare activist do the rest!
@@randallsmerna384 It's a working farm...They are selling their farm products...Feed and fertilizers are expensive...
@@randallsmerna384 it's a strawberry farm and they have a restaurant on site
what a basket! full of ship! must flock! off
Everyone talking about "poor cows" but imagine if the elderly couple had a medical emergency and the emt was unable to get to their home. who is liable for that?
The idiot blocking access is.. there's proof on file that they have a right to access. The man unlawfully blocking access is liable.
Great question! I’d love to hear the answer. Guess they’d have to get CareFlight, and hope for the best. All because this dude wants to be a complete douche canoe.
That's what I was thinking when he was dragging back that temporary barbed wire fence. He was talking about his wife trying to leave for an everyday task. What if it was an emergency?
WhTs the difference
Well when the fire truck or ambulance arrives and theres a big thing blocking the way,they will have to call in mover equipment to get access, the guy who put it there will be arrested and fined and billed and likely charged with other things.
Two farmers had a dispute just like that near me. The farmer needing access had a legally binding easement issued by the previous owner of the land and lucky for them they still had the documents. If they didn't have those documents it would have been hard to prove as the previous owner had passed many years ago.
What is wrong with this crazy person???? What kind of a human being would do this?? I hope they sue him ,& HE PAYS DEARLY!
Love it! Need more reporters like this and actually helping people out and getting useful info out to the rest of us. Glad journalistic integrity still exists out there.
this is a RARE thing these days...
I think that the idiot at fault needs the S...t kicked out of them. I would be more then happy to do this
A real journalist. Thank you.
If the cows were black and or gay this dude would be in jail already
@@larrymartineau7507 He lost the reporter on his own though, (who is only human). Deny what was written on all the deeds, then tell them to fly in with a helicopter or dig a tunnel. He didn't leave any room for objectivity.
As a professional surveyor, I would like to see that recorded easement and how it's worded. If the adjoining land owners were wrongly denied enjoyment of that easement because of Goodson's actions... I smell a BIG lawsuit coming.
I don't think there is a recorded easement. That's why he's doing it. And a utility easement doesn't allow others to use it only the utility company
@@davebrunson125 @ 1:30 they say that the easement was included in the purchase for all three properties (so it would be recorded). The docs are too blurry to read, but if what they are saying is true and that seems to be the case based on code enforcement actually doing something. The guy is either trying to drive his neighbors off the land to grab it up cheaply, He's being a deliberate ass, or he can't read. Odds are good for all three.
@@thomasschulz2167 I heard that, there are a couple problems The original owner may have not registered the easement, so it's verbal and means nothing. I don't think that's the problem. From the little things mentioned I believe it's an Utility easement. That allows Utility companies to use the easement for drainage, water, sewer, power lines. It's still private property that does not allow anybody and their brother to use the easement. Example the RR owns a 50ft easement on my property. Only the RR is allowed to access it, in fact the RR allowed ATT to run a line on it and all the property owners sued the RR for misuse of the easement and won. Anybody other than official RR use is trespassing. I also had another yard that had a drainage easement, same thing. Just because a deed says easement that doesn't necessarily mean public access. People that buy landlocked property get screwed all the time. There needs to be a registered public access easement.
@@thomasschulz2167 There is an obscure rule "Color of Law" some states say "Quiet Title" basically squatters rights. Where a person uses private property in full view of the owner and public for 7-12 years, it's their property/ easement. The owner took action so it's an uphill battle for them They'll probably win in lower court but lose in appeals, where emotion is null and only actual law as written counts
I have an off topic question for you. If I'm going to buy a large tract of land, how do I find a good, reliable experienced surveyor? Thank you.
I can understand it if that road runs through the middle of your property, but this is to the side.
And I believe in the golden rule of having good neighbors, You might need them one day.
You're great, helping these farm people❤
I was fired from my job years ago when I would not put a padlock up for the rancher I worked for when he wanted to block his neighbor's easement through his property. Getting fired from that job was the best thing to ever happen to me, since the rancher was quite the jerk.
Last day you should have put the lock up on his property and took away the key. Fuck that guy.
@Peter Griffin That's reasonable. Allowing the people who have a right of way through and nobody else.
@Peter Griffin Yeah, but I wasn't sure if Jerk Rancher had a spare. Besides, the other things he did to his neighbors were criminal (like burying a screw-embedded board in their driveway), and I was more than happy to get off that ranch. Of course, I didn't find out about the horrors until after I was fired.
The cost for doing the right thing is always well worth paying.
Should’ve sued for wrongful termination. He can’t force you to break the lw
We share a right of way with our neighbors, a pork farm and with the utility company. We also allow neighborhood children and adults to access property through our own so they can use public ATV trails.... everyone is respectful, courteous and takes care of the right of way. I could never imagine being this big of a dick, and the only reason I would ever say anything is if someone was using my property for something illegal, or just being an ass-hat and tearing it up. After 20+ years in the family, there's never been an issue.
Cudos and respect to you for being a straight up kind human. Years ago but I have a buddy that lost his wife and neighbor to a easement dispute Some people just have mental issues
I think the important thing to understand is if you share property with a neighbor (very common on farms and condos) you don't have exclusive ownership over it and you don't have the same property rights. That's why there are condo boards (HOAs) and Village Code Enforcement boards. The alternative is for the city to just take the property for themself and they will handle the maintenance and taxes go up. But by sharing the small bit of property amongst 3 owners, you don't have to have the government running all of the streets (which is very hard in rural areas).
That’s what easements are for. I had 10 acres outside of Bushnell years ago and I had to give up easement on two sides of my property for land owners. I never questioned it. It’s the right thing to do when your property is on platted lines.
Thank you. At the end of the day is all about mutual respect.
Pretty sure that right of access can't be denied in most if not all States. I wonder what the background to this dispute is all about. I'll bet you the land owner is asking for money " due to his unusable" acreage.
We had a similar problem. easement was through the corner of a neighbors property and he put up a fence. We called the Sheriff out, showed him the paperwork, and cut down the fence with him there.
Thanks Shannon!
Glad that the county and code enforcement did the right thing for the property owners. Now everybody needs to team up and not buy anything from goodson farms hopefully through all the people they can force this idiot to go broke!!
I wouldn't be part of a boy court and lower myself to that level.
@@TheByard Then you are a nice guy who finishes last at the detriment to your community.
@@TheWestlandgirl It was a joke.
Looks like people don't like your sense of humour, I wonder why that is maybe because it's not funny!
@@ritathomson9764 Only two so far.
Legally no property can be sold landlocked. All must have easements of some sort. The three owners that are landlocked need to sue the person refusing to allow the easement and they'll win with no problem. the dog picture to the reporter was implying that she was something rhymes with the word ditch
Man he really showed her huh lol
Not true. Just look at the state of Wyoming
That’s not true.
Usually this happens when the other neighbors won't help maintain the easement. They want access but want the owner to maintain the easement so in some cases there's a legitimate reason to block the access and have issue resolved in court
@@wiggwam1 Maintaining the easement is not a monthly task...You only fill in potholes when needed and in Florida that is MAYBE once a year...They can have a friendly meeting and split the bill or take turns doing it...It's just filling them in with the dirt that has washed to the sides...As you can tell, I, a woman, has done it myself...The guy is a Richard nickname...Mr. Dick is going to pay up the "Ying Yang" and may even lose the farm...There is no LAW that makes blocking the easement "Legitimate"...It is also illogical...No judge wants to own the illogical tag...
I had a neighbor up north try to do something similar by building a metal fence in the driveway. Angle grinder made short work of it. Lol. Then he put it back and I cut it, he put it back and I cut it again. Then he gave up. It would’ve taken awhile to angle grinder an entire tracker though.
plasma cutter
I have several pieces of heavy equipment. That tractor might have just disappeared.
Huge boulders then.
Great work thank you news reporting like that helps good people
Well done. Sad though... there are some seriously whacked out people living among us
@Mr. Capital Gains Never been to ranch have you ? You are aware that is where your steak comes from and your milk and cheese, correct ? Or maybe you attended Trump University....covfefe
Life's to short ..... enjoy it why people get so ugly I will never know
Sus...
they're not people they're demons spiritual warfare
@Mr. Capital Gains Translation: the ass is braying because his rank stupidity was revealed before the world.
There should be criminal.laws against this kind of blocking access
If anyone was on their property when he blocked it,,its kid napping...dude did the same crap here and he went to prison for it..This isn't legal, you cant land lock people
There is, it’s totally illegal.
Contact the local fire chief and see what can and cannot block a right of way.
I believe there is.
@@SpaceRanger187 It's not kidnapping it's called false imprisonment.
There is no reason to do this... Prayers for this man, that he opens his heart... That he sees what he does hurts others. Together we are one... each a single drop... raising the ocean...
There absolutely is a reason for him to do this. He doesn't want strangers on his property.
We had a similar issue on our Bandon property and had to go to court. Our easement went back to the 1940’s . We did win but now have a hostile neighbor. Outright of way affected three properties
Sounds like you didn't have a good neighbor to start with.
When we had similar problems - we called our local fire department - they agreed that the neighbor was endangering life and property by preventing fire trucks from reaching our property in the event of a fire. They sent the fire chief to have a quiet chat with him. Problem was solved without a lawsuit.
So did or do you help them out with the tax bill? or do you let them take care of it?
@@jackhall729 Tax bill? What taxbill?
@@jackhall729 The guy who has the easement on his land is NOT OWED anything toward his tax bill. You have some crazy ideas. If you own a home in a city and there is a sidewalk then there is an easement on your property. You cannot build on or block the sidewalk and you are responsible if you fail to maintain it and someone falls because it is your property. Are you always this dense?
@@SteveBakerIsHere The tax bill the owner pays easement users don't have to pay or help with that part of the deal. In another words they get the use of it for FREE..So when tax time comes maybe you should offer up some help..
@@jackhall729 Some share of property taxes you mean? I'd agree with that EXCEPT that by using the easement, you're not denying the owner the use of it too...perhaps somewhat limiting their kinds of use.
But typically, the existence of an easement on a property does devalue it somewhat - and that means that the owner is paying less property taxes for that reason.
On very large properties (like farms) where the land price figures heavily into the amount of taxation, the percentage of the land that's covered by the easement is going to be a negligible proportion of the tax bill anyway...and on small properties (like people's houses) the tax is almost entirely calculated on the value of the house itself - and again, the easement doesn't really factor much into it.
So, no - I have never offered to pay any of the owners taxes.
He needs to be arrested for this and kept until he has a change of mind
nah, what he needs is some good ole cowboy justice.....
@@savagenomore seems to me like he needs to spend some time under a cattle grade. Casey Dutton style
Amen!!! The easements are in the deed, which means he can't block it. It's illegal. Soon as she said easement is in the deed. It was game over. He has no right or leg to stand on if goes to court. That guy is silly. Is ignorance really fckn bliss? Or just friggin embarrassing? Smh
Arrested for breaking what law exactly?
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket May be a crime. Should not call something a crime unless you know for a fact that it is which you do not. If the blocking of the easement is legal then he is not liable for anything that happens to the animals. Maybe they should see about putting in their own road or see about purchasing the rights to travel the private road. That may be a private road but if one snowplow for the state touches even an inch of the road then it is no longer private. If the city put the road in then it is not a private road.
I hope they all sue Goodson, and he has to pay all the lawyers, and damages! Death of each cow! Really disgusting!
Just pull it out of way and Sue him
Had a guy buy the place next to mine and he put up a cable blocking the road that ran along the edge of his place onto my property .My first evidence in court was that the road was not just some gentlemans agreement easement from years ago but was in fact an unmaintained county road plotted out years ago and never taken of the registry .I won the case
Great job Shannon! Thank you for being a great journalist and the fact that you followed through... Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for helping these farmers. That dude is obviously just a hateful man.
Right, Shannon did an amazing job
Wouldn't it just be a crying shame if something were to happen to that nice man.
Plus she looks hot in those Jean's
@@markallen4364 Damn right it would. Just a shame. Tragedy really.
Probably mental.
That's great that you are there for them to call.
Sack up and take action!
That is just plain stupid of that idiot with the beard, and cannot let the farmer feed the cattle? That’s animal abuse 😠😤
No, the farmer is the one who is basing his life on animal abuse. That’s all farmers do is kill for money! Farming is evil!
Helicopter?
our old world is in this mess: because of SNOTHEADS! in canada and france and israel and germany and nieuzeeland and ukraine!!!
@@WindTurbineSyndrome Would be funny if the guy actually bought a helicopter then hovered over the assholes house at 2am every morning dropping off sewerage.
In times past, people been killed over crap like this.
This happens more than you would think. My wife and her sister are currently dealing with the same situation. With the exception that it's her cousin, aunt and uncle preventing them access after they paid just over 20,000 to improve the only road access they had to their mothers property. For a decade their mother let them hunt and traverse her property freely. Pure trash.
Depends if there's an easement in the deed or not
Some people want to be mean just for the sake of being mean.
If there's an easement in the deed then they can't legally block access.
“The blood of a covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”
@@garagekeys well a lot of States also have language for hand shake deals, if it's always been that way who knows a verbal deal is a contract and if Great Uncle Bob and Great Uncle John shook on it and it was always used as such then it's pretty much the way it is. More difficult, but not impossible. My State of Colorado you have the legal right to access your property through another. If you were setting something up to split property then to be able to sell it you would have to create an easement you can not just sell 100 acres that has no access. That in Colorado is illegal. The person that has the property (at this point access was probably created 100 years ago) can use that old road/trail and improve it and use it to access their property. Where in CO we have had legal battles is a property owner says that other property should take a different route to get out (usually new folk moving to an area not understanding how things work). They usually loose in court because in the end the easement was being used for 150 years why would the locked property owner need to spend money to create a new right of way.
Where this is tried more here is a person will go buy property in the National Forest, the USFS has a road going through and that city slicker then puts of gates and blocks. Now the Forest service has to spend your tax dollars to fight that property owner and it can take many many years. I ran into a case of this on a motorcycle ride. Reported it and was told I was unlucky I happen to come across a property issue. Dude thinks his property came with a nice graded dirt road just to it...LOL It's always some city slicker that moved out to the country trying to pull this stuff.
If you have a legal easement which is being illegally blocked you can remove the blockage.
Damn, doing the work for the people. Thank you, we dont have enough of you people.
I hope this guy gets fined and loses his property what a Dbag.
That is not how fines go. No court can take his legally owned land.
@@josephhodges9819 Yeah they can. If the fines accumulate to a high enough amount, they can seize his land and auction it off in order to recuperate the amount owed on the fines.
GET THOSE COWS FED!!!! That’s not morally right!!!! Let them EAT!!!! Call the cops for causing animal starvation & lock him up!!
I'd take hay by dragging it.
Those cows are not starving they have a whole pasture full of grass. Those of you that are whining and crying about the cows need fed evidently have never been a farmer. Bones always show on heifers after they calf. The people that are boohoo crying are people that live in the city and know absolutely nothing about cattle. The guy with the cows in the orange shirt he's just a crybaby you can tell by his demeanor or his attitude that he came after the original landowner with an attitude.
@@unknownuser2737 I think we all know who this is
@@midge2953 ?
@@unknownuser2737 The owner honey. Why else would you defend this boo boo?
They should also call Animal Control and sue him for animal cruelty. I am so glad you outed this guy.
A****t needs jail time for inflicting cruelty to animals.
Old dude is going to lose big time. I'm a surveying tech with enough experience to have seen this same scenario play out a few times. If you have three recorded documents that describe the same ingress & egress easement to said properties, the guy being the a$$ doesn't have a leg to stand on.
Amen!!! The easements are in the deed, which means he can't block it. It's illegal. Soon as she said easement is in the deed. It was game over. He has no right or leg to stand on if goes to court. That guy is silly. Is ignorance really fckn bliss? Or just friggin embarrassing? Smh
Yeah. How can you say "the deed is wrong" when the deed defines what is right? Get the title company in there and have them beat his ass for you.
He probably works for Lou Minatti.
@@johnjeffreys6440 nope... probably a Trumper
The guy blocking access to that land should be held legally accountable for any and all death or damages to the cattle or property of any kind what reason would anyone have to be doing something like this to a nabour or anyone unbelievable
UPDATE: “The Goodson family deeds do not reflect that anybody owns an easement across their property,” (from the court case)
Oh he will be. And he will pay dearly. Especially if Peta finds out about this.
@@cmw6966 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@TEverettReynolds Actually ALL the deeds showed the easement. Goodson lost the case against the Nessmith's and dropped his case against the Barnes's.
Ricky Goodson is a real piece of work.
We have a similar issue here in hood river oregon... when pacific power surrendered the land that once held copper dam it was returned to public use... but the only easment to access the land has been blocked by an adjacent land ownere... blocking the public fron accessing public lands...
No way that water tank would stop me from moving that crap out of the way! I would be like 'how kind of him to give me a nice target to shoot at'. Sorry I thought your grass needed some water LOL!
Exactly, we pulse be pulling equipment out of way or cutting fence to get access, wouldn’t be much of an issue
Thats exactly what I thought. Shotguns, torches, and sawzalls.
If there is a legal easement, any blockage is criminal.. and subject to removal by bulldozer or cutting torch. And the perp needs to be jailed! or... ( can't say on youtube)
yes, and if anyone is on the property when it was blocked, its kid napping..i would have stayed in my house and called the fbi if the cops would have done anything..fighting over land that is stolen in the first place..have a fit over land but not about taxes or any other real shit you should be mad about..sheep
@@SpaceRanger187 Don't be a space cadet space ranger. It's not kidnapping FFS! It's false imprisonment!
You'd ideally need a court order, but to enforce a deeded easement that should be a swift formality.
Governor Desantis, time to step up again!
Was probably a handshake deal between farmers 50 years ago. To legally sell land, it has to have a legal easement, but who's to say they didn't assume it was after decades of use.
Ive been a realtor for over 50 years and the right of way is recorded on all three properties on the deeds ( warranty deeds). End of conversation and the judge will make this bully pay.
Stuff like this triggers me bad, i hope that bully gets what’s coming to him.
My family has been in the ranching business a long time and my 80+ year old dad would bring in his bulldozer and keep moving anything he put up, if the guy isn't reasonable. My dad is a very giving man but he won't put up with a sh!tty neighbor like this guy. Thank guy for great owners of our surrounding properties.
Amen!!! The easements are in the deed, which means he can't block it. It's illegal. Soon as she said easement is in the deed. It was game over. He has no right or leg to stand on if goes to court. That guy is silly. Is ignorance really fckn bliss? Or just friggin embarrassing? Smh
Yup, I would have a copy of the deed with me and the highlighted part, be armed and be happy to buy a big ass dozer and I would push, pull and smash any abandoned property left on the easement. The signs, they would have been cut down right when I saw them, wood ain't cheap so I have some new 4x4's and signs.
Thats right use someone's land for free that they pay the tax bill on,but thats how you farmers get what you have right? between the gov and daddy everything you have you got for free...then run around in your 100,000 dollar trucks paid for by the tax payers crying about how hard you have it right?
@@jackhall729 sounds like you're some sort of jealous city boy, it's obvious you don't know anything about farming.
@@999pr1 Your way off on your city boy idea ! and yes i'm tired of seeing these so called farmers riding around in those 100,000 dollar tax payers paid for trucks while crying about how they have so hard..
Easements are part of our culture. Utilities have them everywhere. If they are part of the deed they are legal. I think this guy is trying to put the squeeze on these people so he can buy their property at dirt cheap prices. He should be fined several $1000 every day and that money should be given to the people that he inconvenienced
This isn't A civil mater, but rather criminal. The powerlines have an easement, so this is a legally recorded easement.
Some words to live by: just because you have the right to, doesn't mean it's right to.
The burdened property doesn't have the right to anything.
I think the neighbors should, in addition to their current actions, fight fire with fire. Homie wouldn't get another night's uninterrupted sleep after this.
Dude lives no where near this property so that wouldn’t do anything
Well some ppl wont tolerate some ppl disturbing them like that somethn bad could happen to the ones disturbing that person these ppl standn out in front of ppls homes may do that just one to many times.
@@dwightherrington7793 it’s seriously just this one dude doing anything. From what I’ve seen more into this story no one else is involved
Don’t shtt in your own back yard,, you might end up walking in it .
Somebody took all his toy's away when he was a kid. So now I'm a Bully and a Hothead, and the only way to fix a hot head is to sue sue sue then put a restraining order against him and his family due to any recourse's that will follow.
No land for sale should be landlocked ever, If easements can't be enforced with swift consequences for those who try and block them, then I would say that's a hard pass on buying that property.
This is what we need in this country. Good solid fact finding reporting.
What a total jerk. Must be one miserable man to block off access like that. If keep an eye on on him.. It's people like that that snap and go blow up innocent people
Call them tomorrow morning
Ask is salt good for crops? Lol
@@damiansgaragebuilds7663 call who?
@@damiansgaragebuilds7663 why would I ask that?
@@terriec808 call the jerks business
Wow Goodson Farms is evil for starving those cows and keeping those people out.
i don't think he's a Good-son after all
Those cattle are not starving I raise cattle. In case you haven't noticed because you live in the comfort of a city there's 80 acres of grass there those cattle can eat and guess what hay is dried grass
@@unknownuser2737 You own xattle? ... So you know that there're times of year that they need supplemental feed, that not all grass is the same and the number of cows matters. So you own cattle?
@@ptaylor4923 no I don't own cattle. I heard there's a low-life smartass named P Taylor that knows everything about cattle so I got out of the cattle business to wait for the know-it-all Taylor to step in and take care of it.
@@unknownuser2737 blah blah blah Like I said before, there is a reason the guy is feeding his cattle. Just because YOU don't know that reason does not make him wrong. You have no idea what the situation is on that land, nor the needs of that specific herd.
I would use my truck to move the obstruction whenever I needed access..
If law enforcement won't get involved and enforce a legal binding ducument they are not going to get involved in a vehicle placement issue either..
The county will eventually get him to comply but it's not up to you to wait for it to play out to access what's legally yours..
Move the vehicle , post, or fence that he places in order to block your access by whatever means necessary..His claims be damned
Law enforcement makes more money on drug seizure these days, good luck to these livestock folks.
Wonder why Goodson won't speak up to explain his position on the easement? I saw a bad episode on ID discovery with a situation like this that didn't end well. Always remember two sides to every story then the truth.
Sounds a lot like the ass of a "neighbor" is trying to force the others to sell to him, at rock bottom prices, no doubt. He needs to be sued, often and for any and all reasons any lawyer can come up with.
UPDATE: “The Goodson family deeds do not reflect that anybody owns an easement across their property,” (from the court case)
@@TEverettReynolds WRONG! ALL the deeds showed the easement. Goodson lost the case against the Nessmith's and dropped his case against the Barnes's.
What's even more amazing is Code Enforcement taking its sweet time deciding he's wrong then more time making him move his junk. Methinks he's related to somebody in Code Enforcement. Or the Mayor. Small town America is like that. Jerks are jerks only because they know they can get away with it.
Absolutely.
Tampa isn't exactly small town and if you do a search on Goodson farms seems that family business has a history of breaking the law and getting caught 😂
@@emtdragon383 It's Goodson Farms
@@wilmorris4225 I'm aware but ty I've edited my response.
@Bonka that is also how abusers, theives and druggies get away with bullying people. I didn't have friends in high places and I was almost MURDERED in a small town and NOONE FUCKING CARED.
I had to sell my possesions and move, because I was literally the target of hate crimes weekly.
Anyone who suggests that "might makes right" and "whoever has more friends willing to use violence is the winner" is a moron, and you should be ashamed... I hope noone you love is ever the victim of abuse and their abusers get away with it because they are well-connected.
We want to know what happens!
Sue him in civil court, damages, legal fees, distress, fines, compensation, etc.
If they can sue goodson (lower case on purpose) into the ground perhaps they can buy his lad and then they will not need an easement. This should not have gone so far. The easment would be recorded on goodson's deed too. They have a legal right to access the easement.
I have an easement on my own property for the local power company to access the power transformer in my front yard and the poles that run down the backbone of the block. If they want in, I can't stop them. (Not that I would, I like electric lights)
The guy should obviously be immediately sued in civil court but also in criminal court for animal cruelty! I don't know why judge doesn't issue a temporary injunction to allow passage until it's decided as well.
Animal control can help make that happen.
For some strange reason the property owners took their problem to a TV station when they should have gone to see a lawyer, as the matter is incredibly easy to resolve, assuming we were told correctly, that the three parcels have deeded access rights down that track.
@@pulaski1 lawyers cost money and waiting for a court date and a decision to be reached takes time , calling a tv station got results much quicker and for free .
There is no animal cruelty. Evidently you never raised cattle before. It looks like it's got about 80 acres of grass it can eat.
@@unknownuser2737 Okay smart guy. What happens in the winter? The cattle will starve unless he can get into the property with hay.
If he needs to get a vet in with equipment or needs to get the cattle out? That is animal cruelty since it is preventing proper care of his herd.
That guy blocking people is a major Richard Head.
The other residents have been using the right of way for 17 years, making it fall under "dominion right of way". Even if that jackass does own the strip of land, he or a former owner have only 7 years to enforce their rights. We need a class action law suit here.
Usually cases like these ends up worst for the bullies.
It ends up taking more of their land, or puts them into huge debt.
hopefully the judge will decide that the "Easement" needs to be changed to a road owned fully by the injured parties.
Best way to fix this Ahole is to pull woodys string… somebody poisoned the water hole….
And all out of pocket too
you live in a fantasy world. Bullies win 99% f the time. Rich ones win 100% of the time.
Here in Missouri the land owner does have the right to put as many gates on the easement as he chooses and passers must open them but no law states that they have to close them.
When somebody blocks you like that you can officially charge them with unlawful detention in a civil lawsuit and sue him for the amount of his property then put a lien on his property
WHAT SECTION OF LAW IS THAT ???????????
@@mefirst4266 what state are you referring to?
@@mefirst4266 False imprisonment is an act punishable under criminal law as well as under tort law. Under tort law, it is classified as an intentional tort. A a person commits false imprisonment when he commits an act of restraint on another person which confines that person in a bounded area.
@@D.Garcia007 Actually, when it comes to the retired firefighter and his wide, the second he blocked them from getting out of their home... there's probably an aspect of that in all states. I hadn't thought of that before, but with them, it's their home & it is keeping an older woman from freely leaving.
@@ptaylor4923 when you do something against anyone 65 or older or 14 and under it bumps up one felony in the law now if he's handicapped it bumps up another one he can actually end up 20 years in prison for that
This is ridiculous, an over reach by all . There no excuse why the other farmers can’t get through to fee their animals, which is animal abuse if their starved by this over reach. And others get to their homes. This is crazy that it’s denying a entry to get to their needs. So these two should file a law suit together….for their rights by Jude or local gov. Or whom ever stamped on their rights, and not allow their access.
Many years ago in NSW Australia I looked at a farm that had shared easement I refused to purchase that property just in case this could have happened to me.
My dad had the opposite problem. A person bought a landlocked property behind property my dad owned. This person ordered - yes, the letter actually said it was an order - my dad to either give him an easement or to buy the property at a price he set. This man knew my dad and should have known that wouldn't work. The man sued. We responded by showing that there was an easement to a different road. He withdrew the case. Turns out, the reason he was ordering my dad was that my dad had cleared the land, and the other fellow didn't want to go to the considerable expense of cutting down the trees on the existing easement. The thing is, even though my dad didn't like the guy, if he had politely asked my dad would have given him the easement.
Hah, your Dad sounds like a kind man.
@@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 It was two old bulls butting heads. Best thing for that is to get some popcorn and watch the fun. My dad was generous, and an easement wouldn't have been a problem. But ordering him was not the right approach.
On all easements it is the landlocked person's responsibility to keep the easement clear. You also see this on utility company easements. They keep the land and trees cleared.
Great ! Proof that if you act respectfully, you will be treate the same , problem solved !!! Like Dalton said , Be nice ! Until it’s time to not be nice !!! I prefer nice , and most smart people do too !!!👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏👆🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Wait, Goodson farms is a WELL KNOWN strawberry farm! This needs to be noted! Who would want to do any business with this jerk??!!! Not me! In fact I wonder how many have got sick from his nasty rotten strawberry shortcake? I think I saw a bug in mine!! I think she needs to draw a little more attention to who this Goodson is!!! It would have an effect on his farm income and it needs to!! Let's all leave a proper fitting review!!! All's fair and love and property access!!