West Jersey Detecting
Gold Member
I know this does not belong in the "Today's Finds" forum, but it needs to be seen by as many people as possible before it is too late.
I had an appointment earlier today to meet with a regional magazine that is doing a story about metal detecting. Although I have a very busy work schedule I agreed to give them 30 minutes of my time. I thought a good place to meet in case they wanted some photos would be a county park.
I was appalled and embarrassed by what I saw as the interviewer and I walked along the highly traveled walking path. There were hundreds of unfilled holes along the path, some only a few inches deep, others deeper than 8 inches! In 10 years of detecting I have never seen such a mess.
It is no wonder that more and more municipalities are banning metal detecting. This person shows total disregard not only for his fellow metal detecting enthusiasts, but for the property of others.
There was a park police about 100 feet away from where I was standing, but bringing it to their attention would only have a detrimental affect.
If this person reads this forum, I would recommend they turn themselves in for the vandalism caused to the park. Unfortunately I was in dress shoes and slacks, otherwise I would have filled in the holes myself.
I don’t blame this on the “reality” TV shows, but I think internet sales has a lot to do with it. Online orderding bypasses the speech we all got when buying metal detectors about filling our holes, asking for permission, the Code of Ethics, etc.
All it takes is one complaint about holes in the parks and it will be time to hang up all of our detectors in the shed for good!
I had an appointment earlier today to meet with a regional magazine that is doing a story about metal detecting. Although I have a very busy work schedule I agreed to give them 30 minutes of my time. I thought a good place to meet in case they wanted some photos would be a county park.
I was appalled and embarrassed by what I saw as the interviewer and I walked along the highly traveled walking path. There were hundreds of unfilled holes along the path, some only a few inches deep, others deeper than 8 inches! In 10 years of detecting I have never seen such a mess.
It is no wonder that more and more municipalities are banning metal detecting. This person shows total disregard not only for his fellow metal detecting enthusiasts, but for the property of others.
There was a park police about 100 feet away from where I was standing, but bringing it to their attention would only have a detrimental affect.
If this person reads this forum, I would recommend they turn themselves in for the vandalism caused to the park. Unfortunately I was in dress shoes and slacks, otherwise I would have filled in the holes myself.
I don’t blame this on the “reality” TV shows, but I think internet sales has a lot to do with it. Online orderding bypasses the speech we all got when buying metal detectors about filling our holes, asking for permission, the Code of Ethics, etc.
All it takes is one complaint about holes in the parks and it will be time to hang up all of our detectors in the shed for good!