First, who are "they" and second I didn't install any of them --- would be my response to removing items.
I know how you feel though. I'd love to be able to just yank anything I deem wrong (and by wrong I mean really wrong).
In PA, there is no requirement to attach your name to your points. Don't get me wrong: A lot of us do put our names on at least one or two points per survey but you can't tag a drill hole or a pipe you found.
Every time you start a survey around here, you have weed out the bad points. After 30 years, you'd think you'd have a good handle on all those bad ones out there but they just keep pounding more in.
I think the most I've ever found at one corner was 4 maybe 5. It's not bad when they're touching or a tenth away.
I recently found a surveyor's point with a tall stake next to it and a car axle driven in about 5" away. This is apparently a correction of some "mistake" from 26 years ago. The problem is that the line and the points are 140' from the 'reasonable' location AND the axle, cap and stake are placed within state highway right-of-way. That's their correction of something that was acquiesced over the last 26 years: They set the guys 'correct' point way out in the state highway. The cap has their name on it. The client slammed in a car axle next to it. I'm absolutely flabbergasted. They are dead wrong and I can't yank them. Also, they don't seem to realize the error their ways.
I'm with you, though. It seems outrageous.
