Anybody else had weird encounters with people?

[Borneo_Bleeper]

I was surrounded by a bus load of Chinese tourist once in the oldest park in town. Beeping along and noticed this gaggle of people making a bee line right to me. Once reaching me the first ones stopped but the rest behind continued to move pass and made a complete "0" around me. The tour guide/translator asked what I was doing and I explained. After murmurs and she translated what I said, the tourist took out their smart phones and proceeded to snap multiple pictures. She then blew loudly on a whistle and moved off to the next attraction with the tourists in close tow.

 

[Silversmith45]

I got pulled over by a cop once. He told me a ran a red light about a mile back down the road. I told him I just pulled on to the road from the company right behind me. He then said, the car he was looking for was red, and had a tail fin (my car was graphite colored, with no fin). I didn't bother asking him why he pulled me over if he knew it wasn't me who ran the light. No doubt, he would have found a reason to ticket me.

Living on a farm about ten miles south of Wichita, I was almost home driving on a dirt road when i noticed a Sheriff's patrol car behind me with the lights flashing. I pulled over and waited for him to come up. When he didn't I looked behind me and saw him behind his door with a gun pointed at me. He told me to get out of the car which I did. He told me that someone wearing a green hat had just robbed a store in the north part of Wichita a few minutes before. I was wearing a camouflage hat, not green. He let me go when he got a call saying the person had just robbed another store in north Wichita. I figured that I would have had to have been driving about 180 mph to get to where he stopped me.

 

[ScubaDetective]

Nobody wants to hear all my cop stories! Nor my people ones actually. My favorite one was when I was detecting parking strips in Utah at night. A guy comes out of a house and tells me I am on private property. I told him I was on a public parking strip and I wasn't hurting anything. He demanded I leave, brushed his coat aside and showed me a badge on his belt. I said are you a cop? He said yes. I told him he needed to learn the laws then. I went to reach for my wallet and he said to keep my hands where he could see them. I said he had no idea what he was talking about and I was going back to detecting. I turned my machine back on and put on my headphones. He yelled someone was going to jail, and went back into the house.

After some time had passed, two Salt Lake police cars came up, one in front and one behind me. I put down my detector, put my hands up and said I was armed, I am a state cop. One asked for my ID, I took out my wallet and gave it to him.

He was right. Somebody went to jail. He did for impersonating a police officer. I knew his badge was a security guard badge. They left with him cuffed and stuffed. One officer and I talked for a while and then I continued detecting, but concentrating was hard because I was laughing too much.

 

[musicnut1986]

I was surrounded by a bus load of Chinese tourist once in the oldest park in town. Beeping along and noticed this gaggle of people making a bee line right to me. Once reaching me the first ones stopped but the rest behind continued to move pass and made a complete "0" around me. The tour guide/translator asked what I was doing and I explained. After murmurs and she translated what I said, the tourist took out their smart phones and proceeded to snap multiple pictures. She then blew loudly on a whistle and moved off to the next attraction with the tourists in close tow.

You didn't know you were one of the scheduled attractions that day for the tour excursion?

 

[GKL]

I was surrounded by a bus load of Chinese tourist once in the oldest park in town. Beeping along and noticed this gaggle of people making a bee line right to me. Once reaching me the first ones stopped but the rest behind continued to move pass and made a complete "0" around me. The tour guide/translator asked what I was doing and I explained. After murmurs and she translated what I said, the tourist took out their smart phones and proceeded to snap multiple pictures. She then blew loudly on a whistle and moved off to the next attraction with the tourists in close tow.

You didn't know you were one of the scheduled attractions that day for the tour excursion?

Hey, maybe you could have a donation cup with a sign in Chinese saying:

"Any donation entitles you to take a selfie photo with a genuine detectorist !"

 

[BBsGal]

One day I decided to hunt the fairgrounds in another town. I was getting geared up standing beside my passenger side door and putting on my knee pads when a beater pickup came past and some young woman hollered "Pervert" at me out the window and gave me a dirty look as they passed.

Not sure what she thought I was doing but I'm pretty sure she was not the sharpest pencil in the box if you know what I mean. ...