Thread: Want to avoid jail - 900m close to a dwelling

Back in the early 2000's when I still did the Alex easter bunny hunt we had an interesting instruction by a farmer.
They had sold the farm house that was usually used by farm workers. It had been bought as a holiday home by some townies who were incidentally down for that weekend.
As he was telling us that one of our guys was trying to clarify the situation by saying that if we saw any rabbits across the road while were were spotlighting, to leave them alone. We used shotguns not silenced 22s.
Farmer responded with " bugger them, this is what we have to do down here on the farm. They had better get used to it". I cant remember if he was going to go and tell them about it but I seem to remember we we still a bit wary of it anyway. We slowed down as we drove past that house all night and didnt wave the spotlights around so even if there was a rabbit there we werent going to see it anyway.
Sounded like too much trouble to us.
No doubt they would have head the shotguns going off around the farm at times but not close enough to be in trouble for.
With the police being very involved in that event, anything that resembled a stupid complaint wouldnt get very far