What's the population? I'm wondering if this is a YMMV situation. My uncle lives in a town in Oregon with ~1500 people. Everybody knows everybody, but they all treat each other like thieves (rightfully so in many cases unfortunately). I remember one summer night in the mid-2010s a group of guys kept coming back to his property to steal stuff. He'd go out and start yelling, they'd take off and come back an hour later to try again. About the 4th or 5th time he went out and just started shooting into the field nearby and they didn't come back after that lol. I was shocked when he told me this was a semi-regular thing.