05-18-2007, 11:29 AM
I can only give my opinion based on the laws/ordinances on the mainland that I know about. Hawaii may be very different since many things are different -- like no law against killing dogs for food, etc.
If the stones are on the line, then someone that originally laid them was in violation. It they remove the stones, those must be on their side of the property. Otherwise, they are trespassing on your property and stealing your property. If they leave stones from their side on your property, they are in violation. If the stones are solely on their property, they can remove them without any liability, even if it causes erosion on your property. (They can't direct erosion/water/etc. onto your property; however, that's not the case here.) I see similarities to what I've seen in the workplace. Many of the non-Haoles are slack on the job and not "in tune" with a corporate work ethic. When someone comes into the place and wishes to do the work that's expected, then the others "gang up" on that person, hoping that he/she will leave. Many times that person will leave. I posted an incident from an Oahu "Local" that had moved to Hilo and worked for a company as a supervisor and the workers that had been with that company were slackers and were "ganging up" on him. I saw that happening, first hand. They wanted to make a one-day job into a two-day job and this person from Oahu refused to go along with it. Here you are, you want to be neighborly and have a nice, clean lot and these people are trying to run you off. When I first moved to HPP, I was piling up the areca palm branches that fell -- and many always fell. The next-door neighbor's kid said, "Just throw them on the empty lot beside you." I told him that I didn't want to do that since I would be littering someone else's property. The kid just looked at me like I was crazy.
If the stones are on the line, then someone that originally laid them was in violation. It they remove the stones, those must be on their side of the property. Otherwise, they are trespassing on your property and stealing your property. If they leave stones from their side on your property, they are in violation. If the stones are solely on their property, they can remove them without any liability, even if it causes erosion on your property. (They can't direct erosion/water/etc. onto your property; however, that's not the case here.) I see similarities to what I've seen in the workplace. Many of the non-Haoles are slack on the job and not "in tune" with a corporate work ethic. When someone comes into the place and wishes to do the work that's expected, then the others "gang up" on that person, hoping that he/she will leave. Many times that person will leave. I posted an incident from an Oahu "Local" that had moved to Hilo and worked for a company as a supervisor and the workers that had been with that company were slackers and were "ganging up" on him. I saw that happening, first hand. They wanted to make a one-day job into a two-day job and this person from Oahu refused to go along with it. Here you are, you want to be neighborly and have a nice, clean lot and these people are trying to run you off. When I first moved to HPP, I was piling up the areca palm branches that fell -- and many always fell. The next-door neighbor's kid said, "Just throw them on the empty lot beside you." I told him that I didn't want to do that since I would be littering someone else's property. The kid just looked at me like I was crazy.