Causing trouble already

[Prov15:6]

I was staying in a small town for a few weeks and thought I would hit the parks since all the local beaches have been stolen from MDing by the Feds. Guess I can't go to the parks either.

 

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[Prov15:6]

Sorry, I must have typed in the wrong box on the last reply. This is Washington State. The town has a lot of retired Seattle busybodies that like to complain.

 

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[releventchair]

"treasure" and "dig" were the killer words there. The way that article reads, the general public is going to think that this goon was destroying the park while stealing valuable things from the ground. Now everyone else can watch out for one of these treasure hunters raping their public land for profit and report them to the police! Dressed as a "treasure hunter"!? What the hell does that mean? Obviously this fellow was attracting attention somehow in a bad way. Here are my personal rules for detecting parks to avoid situations like this:

There have been quite a few comments about how I was dressed that I must have attracted attention in some way. The way the officer and the reporter described me as being "dressed like a treasure hunter" I can understand everyone's concern that I must have been attracting attention. Just to clarify...I was wearing a pair of cargo type shorts, a blue t-shirt, and sandals. I had a finds pouch on a belt with a pin-pointer and trowel on the same belt. No resemblance to Indiana Jones whatsoever. I do understand and follow proper MD etiquette. Hope this helps to clear up some confusion.

Oooh,sandals. That explains it. (Just kidding.) The reaction of those who do not detect are going to view us in the extreme almost regardless.Hard to blend a detector in to the background when in the open areas of park hunting. Nosy people will find anything different out of place and a terrible hole rent in their space /time continuum. One lady claimed we were killing grass while she waddled around on concrete where as a child I played on rough lakeshore.. But her having ice cream at a stand must have been more important than the grounds history and natural features and her impact and footprint on the world must have been beneficial.. My days partner told me later what she had said as I had headphones on and I did look for her to have a chat but she had got what she came for and left apparently.

 

[Jeremy S]

"treasure" and "dig" were the killer words there. The way that article reads, the general public is going to think that this goon was destroying the park while stealing valuable things from the ground. Now everyone else can watch out for one of these treasure hunters raping their public land for profit and report them to the police! Dressed as a "treasure hunter"!? What the hell does that mean? Obviously this fellow was attracting attention somehow in a bad way. Here are my personal rules for detecting parks to avoid situations like this:

There have been quite a few comments about how I was dressed that I must have attracted attention in some way. The way the officer and the reporter described me as being "dressed like a treasure hunter" I can understand everyone's concern that I must have been attracting attention. Just to clarify...I was wearing a pair of cargo type shorts, a blue t-shirt, and sandals. I had a finds pouch on a belt with a pin-pointer and trowel on the same belt. No resemblance to Indiana Jones whatsoever. I do understand and follow proper MD etiquette. Hope this helps to clear up some confusion.

Did not mean to accuse or insinuate anything towards you personally. Why was your story put in the paper in the first place? Does somebody that works for the city have a chip on their shoulder to yourself or people who metal detect? Seems like a great deal of trouble to go through just to announce that some cop kick a guy out of a park.

And what about the cop changing your words around to make you sound bad? Anyone reading that story, myself included, would have thought that you were somehow being a public nuisance. It sounds like that whole town is against metal detecting!

 

[Ism]

Remember, it's the news media that wrote the story, they love to embellish to sell papers.
It could be the guy just had a finds pouch, digger and never said anything about treasure.

 

[cudamark]

I have found detecting in the nude seams to make me invisible! I just don't look good naked anymore!

That's because everyone around you went blind!

 

[Tnmountains]

I hunt a lot of creeks. After people see me in the creek they tend to paddle a little faster past me. The only parks we have here are civil war so they of course are off limits. Oh well better luck in the next one. Hard to believe this was in the news.Seems even the article was in your favor.

 

[Auriemma]

Let's replace TREASURE and DIG with LOST ITEMS and SEARCH. That should fix it.

 

[cudamark]

I also use "items" or "artifacts" instead of treasure, and "recover" instead of dig. That covers all the methods you might use.

 

[Auriemma]

I also use "items" or "artifacts" instead of treasure, and "recover" instead of dig. That covers all the methods you might use.

what he said!

 

[Prov15:6]

Jeremy, sorry, I didn't mean to come across as you accusing me of anything. I was under a lot of job related, and family stress at the time I wrote this and must not have thought through what I was saying. (My wife accuses me of doing that often, but then what does she know. Lol)

 

[NiagracountyNY]

From now on if anyone ask what your doing..Tell them your digging for pull tabs/tin cans and sharp rusty metal so no one can get hurt!Your a concerned citizen worried about children and small animals getting cut..see what they tell you then..

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

I guess Im just lucky where I live, the cops are more worried about REAL crimes, like the dopeheads and the daily robberies & shootings. I have had several cops come up to me when i was detecting and they all tell me the same thing.

" Do you know what neighborhood you are in?" "Becareful" then they drive off.. But I can see in those small towns where everyone knows everybody, all it takes is a little "negative noise" from one person to get things like this to happen