Quoted: I feel for the dead and their families, however these boys obviously didn't know how to handle a trespasser.  If the land was fenced and posted here in Texas, that sumbitch would have no rights period.  He would have been detained at gun point until the game warden or sheriffs deputy arrived.  Unless he was just lost, which this guy was not, or had made a honest mistake, he would have been held for the law.  In south Texas he would have been shot and fed to the alligators and know one would have known where that mofo ended up. In Texas that boy would be hell bound with the death penalty by now.

you sure got that right! Adios, MOFO!

Quoted: Quoted: I feel for the dead and their families, however these boys obviously didn't know how to handle a trespasser.  If the land was fenced and posted here in Texas, that sumbitch would have no rights period.  He would have been detained at gun point until the game warden or sheriffs deputy arrived.  Unless he was just lost, which this guy was not, or had made a honest mistake, he would have been held for the law.  In south Texas he would have been shot and fed to the alligators and know one would have known where that mofo ended up. In Texas that boy would be hell bound with the death penalty by now. you sure got that right! Adios, MOFO!

It's too bad our DNR and Sheriff's office don't care all that much about trespassers, at least around here.  

It kind of sucks.  My ex father in law has trespassers CONSTANTLY, the only thing you can really do is exactly what this group did, IF you care to go out and get in an argument with the fuckers.  

In a true emergency (such someone is breaking into my house RIGHT NOW), response time is +/- 30 minutes for the Sheriff's Dept. (Happened to my wife....thank God for German Shepherd Dogs!).  

All the DNR cares about is pulling over in the wrong lane head on and almost creating an accident to stop hunters in a truck, so they can check your deer and make sure all your weapons are unloaded (me), flying over the public land and adjacent private lands, low and slow, ALL DAY LONG, with a noisy ass airplane and binoculars, taking notes to mail tickets (and ruining many a beautiful, quiet day), giving tickets for leaning your rifle against your car (ex-wife's cousin), leaving a broken chunk of wood frozen into the ice when you take your ice fishing shanty in (friends), and not having a permit to burn specific kinds of trash (ex father in law).  Trespassers....they don't care about.  If you were to call and tell them you are gonna shoot them off, they will come FOR YOU.

The following info may shed light for some, as to why people don't turn to LE for rural trespassing issues, but will go out UNARMED to confront one without even thinking.

Wisconsin has a long running and strong undercurrent of "progressive" (socialist) tradition, mainly borne by the unions in Milwaukee, the unionized papermills across the north, the schools across the state which have been the focal point for our "progressive" traditions, the government in Madison, and the LE communities (especially the State Patrol and the DNR, for whom Constitutional rights of land owners are overridden by state law and do NOT apply).

Quoted: He would have been detained at gun point until the game warden or sheriffs deputy arrived.  Unless he was just lost, which this guy was not, or had made a honest mistake, he would have been held for the law.  In south Texas he would have been shot and fed to the alligators and know one would have known where that mofo ended up.

In NH you can hunt on land that is not posted.  Now despite that being the case, I always ask for permission to hunt on private property even if the land belongs to someone three states over and will never even know I was there.  I just don't want to have a confrontation with anyone in the woods.  If I hear someone coming while I am on public land then I do whatever I can to avoid contact with that person.  I just don't want to have contact with anyone while I'm in the middle of nowhere.

As far as the part in red, there is no excuse for finding yourself accidentally on private land.  No flame intended at all towards you, and I'm sure I have been on land that may have been posted along the main road that abutts the property but not on the other three sides.  

If someone wants to know who the property belongs to then they can go down to the Tax Assessor's office and point to the property on a map.  You can be sure that the Tax Assessor knows who the property belongs to.  They will also have the contact information so one can ask for permission to hunt the property.  I stop by the Tax office every year to make sure the few parcels of land I hunt have not changed hands.

From all the available information, Vang should hang.  Or at the least, as someone has already mentioned, he should be beaten to death in prison.  Society has no need for people like him.