4th of July Camping!

So my grandmother owns a lot of land out at Ocean Shores. Katie, Josh and I were intending on going camping this weekend, but as all of the good camp grounds were already booked by folks more prepared than us, we decided to instead trek out to this property to camp out there.
What greeted us was about 150 feet of wooded brushlands, which took us about an hour to clear. I'm pretty sure most people would have just given up and turned back, but never to be detered by work or logic, we forayed onward!
Unfortunately all our work was for naught, as the next morning we were greeted by the Police, informing us that in order to camp on our own property we must have both a valid camping permit, and ready access to utilities - neither of which do we have.
Still, we managed to have one good day of camping. And over night it decided to start pouring on us, so we were getting rather soggy anyway.
Makes you wonder what this country is coming to when you can't even reside on your own property without the police harassing you.