a man tried to run me off today

[plugger]

I was metal detecting today on a old store site I had permission to hunt. this man drove up and came over to me and said what the he-- you think you are doing I told him I was looking for some old relics for the museum . he said do you know who you are on and I said yes then he wanted to know if he knew I was there and I told him I wouldn't be here if he didn't then he started to call this man told him to tell him that I said hello . he call and the owner ask what was going on and the told the man to mind his own business and to not bother me any more . this fellow was sure mad when he left I just laughed .

 

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[Chug And Red]

Permission and a Phone Number Priceless HH and always keep your Cool

 

[SilverFinger]

I HATE hearing stories like this. Really depresses me. We are all expected to sit in our little boxes, waiting around to die or drink ourselves into oblivion. I guess -that's- ok.

People hassle just to hassle. Power tripping control freaks. If people minded their own damn business more it'd be a much better world.

Betcha if you were selling drugs, he wouldnt've bothered you.

People tend not to think about the garbage we carry away, the metal debris we remove and the good we do. Last year I rescued a snapping turtle that had a 6-pack ring around its front and rear legs, flipped over on its back I found while MDing a park. It was a big bad boy too. I felt pretty good about it. No one will EVER hear about that.

But, it's ok to litter, right? Bet that guy wouldn't have called you out if you dumped a big bag full of McDonalds garbage in a parking lot with a few empty plastic bottles thrown in for good measure.

 

[Rawhide]

Forget the save the environment soap box. We are people and not criminals, we can do what we do for no other reason as we can. All you need is permission and to obey about ten other rules about the hobby.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

yup, you gotta have a tough skin in this hobby sometimes . I even had a lady on the beach tell me my detector was bothering her dog once ! (I think she thought it emitted some sort of sound or frequency only dogs heard ? )

 

[SilverFinger]

Hmmm.... Makes me think I should bring a dog with me. Perhaps they can hear special shiny stuff I can't!

 

[Helix]

We own a farm that has been in our family for some generations. The house and barns have been gone for almost 40 years. We do not live there, no one dose. Basically we mder's would call it a old home site. Now I have been detecting for almost 10 years and never found as much as one wheat cent. I must of detected our farm 10 times hard. My dad even showed me a spot were he lost some mercs, never found a one. I have detected other farms and always found much more in the way of finds. The only thing I can figure it was trespassed upon and worked over very well years ago by someone else. This would be unsettling seeing as the history ties to my family. I have never found anything special other then a 1930's belt buckle with my grandfathers initials. I have received phone calls in the past from concerned neighbors about someone's doing this or that, not metal detecting though. Sounds like the fellow who confronted you was being a bit aggressive but I have to say I am glad to have neighbors that keep an eye out for our land. People dumping, illegal game hunting anything out of the ordinary. Good thing you got permission I would of been very irritated if I was to get phone call about mdr trespassing on our farm. Most of all I would want to ask the trespassing mder about the finds he has made! LOL. Other then that I would give the person a warning and if caught a second time its no notice just call police.

 

[ivan salis]

rule #1 get the landowners ok . always...if its private land.

 

[NJcigarman]

Always have to deal with Mr & Mrs Busybody!!

 

[Old Dude]

We own a farm that has been in our family for some generations. The house and barns have been gone for almost 40 years. We do not live there, no one dose. Basically we mder's would call it a old home site. Now I have been detecting for almost 10 years and never found as much as one wheat cent. I must of detected our farm 10 times hard. My dad even showed me a spot were he lost some mercs, never found a one. I have detected other farms and always found much more in the way of finds. The only thing I can figure it was trespassed upon and worked over very well years ago by someone else. This would be unsettling seeing as the history ties to my family. I have never found anything special other then a 1930's belt buckle with my grandfathers initials. I have received phone calls in the past from concerned neighbors about someone's doing this or that, not metal detecting though. Sounds like the fellow who confronted you was being a bit aggressive but I have to say I am glad to have neighbors that keep an eye out for our land. People dumping, illegal game hunting anything out of the ordinary. Good thing you got permission I would of been very irritated if I was to get phone call about mdr trespassing on our farm. Most of all I would want to ask the trespassing mder about the finds he has made! LOL. Other then that I would give the person a warning and if caught a second time its no notice just call police.

That's all well and good, but the guy in the original post is lucky his rudeness to the md'er wasn't answered with a swift kick in the rear, lol. It is good that neighbors look out for each other, but have some manners when confronting someone. Glad the owner nipped that in the bud.

 

[MuckyBottles]

I was metal detecting today on a old store site I had permission to hunt. this man drove up and came over to me and said what the he-- you think you are doing I told him I was looking for some old relics for the museum . he said do you know who you are on and I said yes then he wanted to know if he knew I was there and I told him I wouldn't be here if he didn't then he started to call this man told him to tell him that I said hello . he call and the owner ask what was going on and the told the man to mind his own business and to not bother me any more . this fellow was sure mad when he left I just laughed .

I would've said, "How'd you take your humble pie, j/a"..but that's just me.

 

[liftloop]

lost key wins sympathy
every buddy hates when they lose keys

yea

me and my girl friend got in a fight
she threw my keys now i'm stuck till i find them
she stormed off
lucky for me i had my detector on the back seat
hay look
I think I found them No it's just another barbers dime from the eighteen hundred
gee's
thought it was my keys
Ooo darn
well all have to keep looking

 

[iowa trout]

Sundown yesterday I crossed the barbwire fence into the roadside ditch up on to the gravel road with a few deer shed antlers in hand,at the same time a honking truck quickly approached and stopped.Do you have permission to be in there? "Yes I replied" He said he knew the landowner and that he will be calling them "OK I replied" leaving tires throwing gravel . I never did get that landowner phone call telling me I was shed hunting tresspassing my own land.

 

[MuckyBottles]

Sundown yesterday I crossed the barbwire fence into the roadside ditch up on to the gravel road with a few deer shed antlers in hand,at the same time a honking truck quickly approached and stopped.Do you have permission to be in there? "Yes I replied" He said he knew the landowner and that he will be calling them "OK I replied" leaving tires throwing gravel . I never did get that landowner phone call telling me I was shed hunting tresspassing my own land.

Hahaha! I get good money for sheds (Dog Chews)

 

[Frankn]

I usually ask permission, BUT there are times when I don't. I was on a trip hunting a cache out west. I wasn't quite sure of the location. It was kind of open range land. I was looking for an old stage stop cache. I was winding thru roads that turned into trails in my MH. I was over 25 miles from anything when I came upon an old dwelling. The trail to it looked like it hadn't been used in years. The door was open, but I didn't go in. I detected the yard and found my first post hole cache. I returned everything to it's original condition, except the cache which found a new home in my MH. I drove off into the sunset. Sorry about that, but that's the way it was. Frank...

 

[Helix]

That's all well and good, but the guy in the original post is lucky his rudeness to the md'er wasn't answered with a swift kick in the rear, lol. It is good that neighbors look out for each other, but have some manners when confronting someone. Glad the owner nipped that in the bud.

I was just trying to express my a second point of view being a land owner and mder. Yeah pluggers guy sounded like he was on a power trip, some of my neighbors think they own our land also. I allowed a friend to park his motor home there for a few once and one of my neighbors reported a abandon stolen vehicle and it was towed. Talk about lack of communication on someone's part.

 

[Old Dude]

I knew what you meant Helix, and I agree with you about how good it is that some people still do the neighborly thing and look out for your property in your absence. I have an elderly widow as a neighbor and always notice anyone that stops on her property. In today's world, acts like this aren't as normal as they were before our time with modern communication. Today people's "friends" are many miles, time zones and even continents away while we barely know the people right next door. It's sad but that is how it is, isn't it?

 

[Unclebuck257]

I live out in the country with acerage of my own and some of the property near my place is owned by people who do not now live on that property. I can see where Helix is coming from as an absent land owner, but that guy who confronted plugger was a nut case and used very bad judgement on how he handled the situation. Apparently that guy had the owner's name and phone number, so he should have called the land owner himself first before confronting plugger to see IF plugger had permission. Afterall, anyone can easily see a metal detector is not obviously a weapon, nor was plugger in the middle of committing a robbery, arson, or criminal act. When I see anyone on a neighbor's property that I don't know, the first thing I'll do is call the absent landowner and check it out as to whether or not they have given anyone permission to be on the property. If I didn't know the landowner well enough to have his name and phone number, then it's none of my business anyway!...unless I see a criminal act like arson or robbery going on, then the Sheriff gets a call. Otherwise, I'll just call the friend who owns the land first and go from there before confronting anyone. I do have one rather new neighbor with a problem attitude however, who recently purchased acerage near me, but doesn't live on the land, and lives quite a distance away. If his cows had a problem, or any of his livestock had a problem, I'd call him or do what I had to in order to save his livestock, but otherwise if it just concerned the land itself, I'd mind my own business and pass on by. In fact, if a "rogue" backhoe was digging holes all over his place, I'd probably take a lawn chair, a cooler, sit in the bed of my pickup, relax and enjoy the show! Of course, if it was too hot out, I'd sit in the cab of my truck with the A/C going!! LMBO!

 

[BARKER]

Hin Plugger; Some people just like being miserable. Way to go on that one. PEACE:RONB

 

[deodra]

I live out in the country with acerage of my own and some of the property near my place is owned by people who do not now live on that property. I can see where Helix is coming from as an absent land owner, but that guy who confronted plugger was a nut case and used very bad judgement on how he handled the situation. Apparently that guy had the owner's name and phone number, so he should have called the land owner himself first before confronting plugger to see IF plugger had permission. Afterall, anyone can easily see a metal detector is not obviously a weapon, nor was plugger in the middle of committing a robbery, arson, or criminal act. When I see anyone on a neighbor's property that I don't know, the first thing I'll do is call the absent landowner and check it out as to whether or not they have given anyone permission to be on the property. If I didn't know the landowner well enough to have his name and phone number, then it's none of my business anyway!...unless I see a criminal act like arson or robbery going on, then the Sheriff gets a call. Otherwise, I'll just call the friend who owns the land first and go from there before confronting anyone. I do have one rather new neighbor with a problem attitude however, who recently purchased acerage near me, but doesn't live on the land, and lives quite a distance away. If his cows had a problem, or any of his livestock had a problem, I'd call him or do what I had to in order to save his livestock, but otherwise if it just concerned the land itself, I'd mind my own business and pass on by. In fact, if a "rogue" backhoe was digging holes all over his place, I'd probably take a lawn chair, a cooler, sit in the bed of my pickup, relax and enjoy the show! Of course, if it was too hot out, I'd sit in the cab of my truck with the A/C going!! LMBO!

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