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I was camping in Tionesta County, Pa over the weekend and while I was on a hikeI stumbled across a pond and started fishing in it. I caught a catfish and one of its fins went through my boot and into my foot which I had to go to the hospital for. Shortly after catching the fish and removing it from my foot, the apparent landowner came out of no where and said I couldn;t be there so I started to leave. While leaving he said I was required by law to give him my information so I did and now i'm getting phone calls from the state police saying he's pressing tresspassing charges. There were no signs, fences, or anything of that sort from the location I entered his property but when he walked me off his property he took me another direction and there was one there but can I be charged for tresspassing when the signs were not all around and not really visisble without searching for them? And since the landowner is giving me a hard time can I sue him for the damages caused by his catfish?

Submitted: 179 days and 22 hours ago.
Category: Legal
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Status: AWAITING CUSTOMER ACTION

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Lay low. I doubt you are going to be charged with trespassing. No, you cannot sue him for the catfish incident. First, you were trespassing, second you basically stole the catfish and third fishing carries an inherent risk of injury.

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Answered: 5/27/2009

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