Roy wrote:

In other words, you cannot compel your neighbor to take defensive
measures to protect his property in response to something you do on
yours. Any diminishment of one's peaceable enjoyment of their own
property brought about by actions of another are the
"responsibility" of the other to correct.

Plus, he may shoot you.

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Would that be before or after half of his yard slid into the "ditch"
when the rains came?
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That depends on several factors: how excitable he is, whether he already
owns a gun, etc.