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Approved 6/8/2015 <br /> <br />OC Board of Adjustment – 12/08/2014 Page 40 of 49 <br /> <br /> <br /> 1 <br />T.C. Morphis: I am happy to explain that further but I don’t want to spea k out of turn so it is at the pleasure of the 2 <br />board. 3 <br /> 4 <br />Larry Wright: Call your next witness please. 5 <br /> 6 <br />T.C. Morphis: Could I get Mr. Michael Joerling. 7 <br /> 8 <br />Michael Joerling: I have been sworn in. 9 <br /> 10 <br />T.C. Morphis: Would you please turn to Exhibit 1 in the notebook. I have your property number 2, is that correct? 11 <br /> 12 <br />Michael Joerling: That is correct. 13 <br /> 14 <br />T.C. Morphis: How long have you lived on your property? 15 <br /> 16 <br />Michael Joerling: We have live there almost 30 years. 17 <br /> 18 <br />T.C. Morphis: Do you own a gun sir? 19 <br /> 20 <br />Michael Joerling: I do. 21 <br /> 22 <br />T.C. Morphis: About how far away from the range do you think your property is? 23 <br /> 24 <br />Michael Joerling: I think we are just under 1,000 feet from the shooting range. 25 <br /> 26 <br />T.C. Morphis: Have you been on site? 27 <br /> 28 <br />Michael Joerling: I have. 29 <br /> 30 <br />T.C. Morphis: Did you intend to trespass? 31 <br /> 32 <br />Michael Joerling: No I didn’t. 33 <br /> 34 <br />T.C. Morphis: When you went on the property did you think you were on Ms. Boysen’s property? 35 <br /> 36 <br />Michael Joerling: I suspected it was coming from Ms. Boysen’s property so I walked back there to take a look. 37 <br /> 38 <br />T.C. Morphis: And physical structures you saw, was it the same thing that Mr. Carter saw? 39 <br /> 40 <br />Michael Joerling: They are. There was a berm. There was some sort of platform they were shooting from, targets, 41 <br />trees cut down, and thousands of shells on the ground. 42 <br /> 43 <br />T.C. Morphis: You have heard testimony about the frequency, duration, volume, you heard audio, was that 44 <br />consistent? 45 <br /> 46 <br />Michael Joerling: It is consistent. It can get much worse than what you heard on the tapes but…. 47 <br /> 48 <br />T.C. Morphis: We were talking the other day and you called that a warm up, was that accurate? 49 <br /> 50