Is it a private lake, or isn’t it?
?The EPA owns all of the water in America.
I really don’t know. It seems it could belong to this gated community, which is governed by an HOA.
From the article:
“The man then tells them he is on the homeowner association board.
“We pay for the lake,” he adds. “It’s a private lake so if you live in the neighborhood.”
I used to live in an association that controlled the street that ran through it along with the maintenance of the buildings. I verified talking with the county maintenance people that they do not do anything to the street inside the block area, so it was ours to take care of and we were paying the association in dues to do so if something came up with it.
We, also, had a sign on both cul-de-sac that were part of this association that it wa a private road and not to solicit unless requested to within it. People got their morning paper and invited workmen in to fix things so it wasn’t a complete shut out of traffic. But it was invited traffic not just people coming in to sell things going door to door. So unless invited, they weren’t supposed to be there.
There wee a number of times I had to ask people to vacate the street area and they got belligerent. A couple of times they even said “well you don’t own the street so we can be here.” I informed them yes we do, and told them to leave or I’ll call the sheriff’s office and ask them to arrest you for trespassing. One pair was escorted off the property and told not to come back by the deputy when they pushed it that far.
So their association has the privilege if they are paying for the lake to closed it to outside traffic if it is within the area of control recognized by the city, county, and state.
There was no mention of keep out signs but it could be possible the association was within it’s rights. He mentioned two people in three visits asking him if he was a member of the community there and he refused to answer their question. If he had, he could have cleared the whole problem up and been left alone.
But, instead, because he brought up color and the since the two people just happened to be white who asked him, they were racist in his mind. Neither of them knew him apparently and were questioning his being there, both informing him if he wasn’t a member of that community he couldn’t. If there ae other black people living in the community, they didn’t ask him so he immediately called racist.
I remember another person that did approximately the same thing by, in that case, literally starting a physical altercation and got shot for it. His name was Travon Martin. He also had a chip on his shoulder.
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Im white and live in Mass.... I fish random spots where Ive been questioned by locals about things..... this guy just looking to be a tik tok charity case.