Metal detecting article on front page of the Wall Street Journal~8/1/2013

[clovis97]

Anyone else see it?

Not an earth shattering article, but good to see our hobby shown in a positive light.

 

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[dirtfisher23]

I saw a story about a Farmer in Europe who lost his keys...brought out his detector and found them...along with several
ancient gold coins. It was on Yahoo. Is that the one your talking about?

 

[clovis97]

I saw a story about a Farmer in Europe who lost his keys...brought out his detector and found them...along with several
ancient gold coins. It was on Yahoo. Is that the one your talking about?

No. This one was on the front page of the WSJ.

 

[HutSiteDigger]

For Metal 'Detectorists,' the Real Find Is a Place to Sweep in Peace - WSJ.com

 

[clovis97]

Thanks, Hut!!!!!!

I take the printed paper, without the online access. The WSJ is famous for limiting access, understandably so, and I didn't even check to see if it was online for free reading.

Again, thanks!!!!

 

[surf]

Thanks for the link, Hut.

"Mr. Thompson had a brush with the law himself. "I got a call at 3 a.m. from the Stamford police," he said. There was a problem, he was told: The post office had a parcel for him, but employees were worried because it was "rattling," Mr. Thompson said.

Turns out the box contained a metal detector he had ordered for his son.

Not helping matters: The company logo on the box was an atomic symbol. "When I got there, they'd cleared out the post office," he said. "The box was in an empty field across the street."

 

[Tom_in_CA]

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thanx for the link hut.

bummer that the article had to go on, and on, and on about the supposed lament of md'rs and the law. While it's true that you can't detect anywhere you want, and while it's true that we'll run into occasional gripers, yet ....... What an article like THAT does, is that it seems to instill a fear into the hearts of any newbies reading it. They think "oh no, I don't want to break any laws" (an understandable reaction). And so what do they do, to see if their intended hunt spots are "legal"? Well they go and ask, of course (an understandable reaction). And then ..... even though there may not have been any specific restriction at whatever place it was they were going to, guess what will happen when the confused dazed desk-clerk fields such inquiries? They morph something else to apply, or invent a rule to "address this pressing issue", and so forth (an understandable reaction). So the newbie gets a no, and proceeds to write articles like that. Thus leading to more people asking "can I?", thus leading to more "no's" (where no one ever cared before). It's all a vicious circle