washingtonian
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Hey folks,
My brother (Washingtonian jr) and I got out today so he could give his new Equinox 800 a whirl. We started at a permission and didn’t get much there so we moved on to a school I’ve had success at in the past.
I’d found a buff and a few Wheats in the first hour and then things took a nose dive. This school is in a small town and it just so turns out the town’s only cop lives across the street.
Well, he came over and was all confrontational spouting off things like “you guys keep leaving holes here” (literally been there once and I never leave a hole unconvered), “this is a liability and you are going to get the school sued” (never happened once in my 13 years detecting), “everything you find belongs to the children” (huh?), “you can’t just metal detect a school without asking for permission, this isn’t a park” (still a public school paid for with taxpayer dollars). There are no posted signs at the school or on their website that say anything about metal detecting or any similar activity being prohibited.
Anyways, it probably isn’t prudent to argue with the one cop in town so I didn’t try much. I told him this was only my second time there, showed him how clean of a job I’d been doing, explained that I’d already returned several rings to people this year. He didn’t care.
Left a bitter taste in my mouth but we left and tried one more site before calling it a day. Most of my interactions with cops while detecting have been pleasant, this was an exception.
Thankfully I did nab a 36-S buff and 4 Wheats (5th was from the 1st site) before we got booted. Still a great day with my bro.
Thanks for looking and happy hunting all!
-W
My brother (Washingtonian jr) and I got out today so he could give his new Equinox 800 a whirl. We started at a permission and didn’t get much there so we moved on to a school I’ve had success at in the past.
I’d found a buff and a few Wheats in the first hour and then things took a nose dive. This school is in a small town and it just so turns out the town’s only cop lives across the street.
Well, he came over and was all confrontational spouting off things like “you guys keep leaving holes here” (literally been there once and I never leave a hole unconvered), “this is a liability and you are going to get the school sued” (never happened once in my 13 years detecting), “everything you find belongs to the children” (huh?), “you can’t just metal detect a school without asking for permission, this isn’t a park” (still a public school paid for with taxpayer dollars). There are no posted signs at the school or on their website that say anything about metal detecting or any similar activity being prohibited.
Anyways, it probably isn’t prudent to argue with the one cop in town so I didn’t try much. I told him this was only my second time there, showed him how clean of a job I’d been doing, explained that I’d already returned several rings to people this year. He didn’t care.
Left a bitter taste in my mouth but we left and tried one more site before calling it a day. Most of my interactions with cops while detecting have been pleasant, this was an exception.
Thankfully I did nab a 36-S buff and 4 Wheats (5th was from the 1st site) before we got booted. Still a great day with my bro.
Thanks for looking and happy hunting all!
-W
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Thank god the police in my town are nice about metal detecting. Only ran into one idiot woman who said she was calling the police. I told her to go ahead. If she did call they never showed up. 
