{"id":32967,"date":"2024-08-03T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T22:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32967"},"modified":"2024-08-03T17:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T22:05:13","slug":"purple-paint-laws-oversold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/03\/purple-paint-laws-oversold\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Paint Laws, Oversold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/08\/03\/lifestyle\/if-you-see-this-color-painted-on-a-tree-in-the-woods-your-life-could-be-in-danger-heres-why\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">If you see this color painted on a tree in the woods, your life could be in danger \u2014 here\u2019s why<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Forget a red flag \u2014 if you see purple, start running.<\/p>\n<p>In nearly two dozen states, a purple marking on a tree or other stationary object out in the wild denotes private property, and depending on where in the United States you are, landowners could be heavily armed.<\/p>\n<p>To be completely safe? Keep out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>PANIC!  RED STATES == DANGER!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NFutge4xn3w?si=ZdB4oifGyZWX-Uxp\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf it\u2019s just purple paint with no signage, people may be less likely to understand what that is unless the state itself and organizations across the state have done a significant job getting that info across to all visitors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention, determining where public land ends and private property begins is pricey, but to allow landowners to mark their territory themselves could create another host of issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe you should learn a little something about where you&#8217;re going before wandering into the woods.<\/p>\n<p>Jeez, I am not a hiker, and I know what the purple means.  And I&#8217;ve pointed it out to my children what it means so they would know.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who insists on signage every couple of feet so that wanderers off of the path in a state park can see them does not actually understand how expensive that would be for a land owner.  Or think that they&#8217;re entitled to that sort of coddling no matter the cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you see this color painted on a tree in the woods, your life could be in danger \u2014 here\u2019s why: Forget a red flag \u2014 if you see purple, start running. In nearly two dozen states, a purple marking on a tree or other stationary object out in the wild denotes private property, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32968,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32967\/revisions\/32968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}