Just short of a total collapse of society or a direct immediate threat to our lives I don’t see it as any right of ours to destroy what others have worked hard to buy and also worked hard to install.

What direct immediate threat to your life would you see as a need to chop up a fence rather then to climb over it or go around?


Katrina is a good example of the need to relocate, but I don’t think it was a need to destroy things along the way.


After you got out of the trouble you were in, and the emergency is passed (and it will pass), will you go back and pay for and also do the work to repair every fence you hacked through and pay for any animals (cows horses and the like) that may have gotten out because of your action? Most people would not!

I’m not really trying to argue or give you a hard time, I just think other peoples property should be respected and I also feel it’s easy to go over, walk, ride or drive around a fence without destroying it.


Bolt cutters are a very specific use item, they cut locks, fences and chains. All of these items are generally purchased and used by people that own things or property that they don’t want others on or to have access to or to contain animals, this is well within their legal and moral rights. I respect that and would walk around.