From the Archives---Get out.

    I read the account of a landlord "evicting" his tenants at gunpoint, binding them, and dropping them off miles away in a cemetery. That's harsh.

   There are other ways to do it.  Going back a dozen or more years in my work history, I learned of a less violent way to get rid of unwanted tenants. I regularly visited the children of a family who worked on a farm and so lived in the farmer's tenant house. The children were good students and very well behaved. But for whatever reason, the farmer did not want the services of the father any longer. It was winter; the family, low on resources,  was in no hurry to find another place to live. Legal eviction was not an option for the farm owner, due to their being young children and cold weather.   One day I drove to their house, and as usual walked up the steps of the old house to knock on the door. 

   To my surprise, there was no front door, just an open space into the living room. The mother appeared in the doorway and told me that was the way that the farmers in that county used to "encourage" tenants to leave. And they did leave shortly after. Apparently the local sheriff was good with that method.