Up until about 30 years ago there was a surveyor in my area who did more than his share of surveys. Funny thing about him though is that his transit didn't have cross-hairs. He was kind of proud of this and he would let anyone who was interested look though his transit while he was in the field on a survey. (As a child, I was one of those persons.) He'd go out to survey a tract with a survey crew and equipment, but then would just ask the landowner where he wanted the lines and corners to be. He then placed his survey monuments (pipes) after having the landowner show him where the landowner wanted them. The rest of any of his on-site work was only for show. His final plats were gorgeous, but his bearings and distances and acreages shown on his plats had nothing in common with reality or the legal description at the courthouse. His middle name came to be "where-do-you-want-the-line". He truly messed up goodly portions of a number of parishes. Many of his surveys have been contested over the years, and the cost of fixing problems caused by his work has been enourmous and on-going.