Jeff30135
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I Got permission to hunt an old home site that dates back to 1910 and it still has some old dilapidated buildings on the property, I called the land owner yesterday and he gave me permission, nice guy, said go there anytime, so I went to scope it out yesterday and hunted for about 15 minutes and found a 1977 Clad Eisenhower dollar. Went back today and planned on spending a few hours there but.....
I went there and after a little while a sheriff showed up and asked me what I was doing, like it wasn't obvious already, anyways I told her I was metal detecting and she said this is private property, I told her yes ma'am it is, I got permission from Mr. Kenneth Guy, then she said, who is that? The land owner I replied, and she asked If I had his phone number and I handed over a little paper with his name and number on it, she took my ID and said ok I'll be right back let me check this out, she came back and said she couldn't contact him so she had to ask me to leave, just for right now. I said I understood but really I felt like it was on her to prove that I didn't have permission to be there, after all I did have permission and wasn't doing anything wrong. She said maybe next time to have something in writing, which I told her I didn't really understand how that would help seeing as I could just write a note and sign it myself, I told her you have no idea what the land owners signature looks like. she said yeah but it gives me something more to go on, I thought to myself not really lady but I just said ok and collected my stuff and left for the day, I did hunt for about an hour before she interrupted me, the only other coin I found was a 1999 dime.
I went there and after a little while a sheriff showed up and asked me what I was doing, like it wasn't obvious already, anyways I told her I was metal detecting and she said this is private property, I told her yes ma'am it is, I got permission from Mr. Kenneth Guy, then she said, who is that? The land owner I replied, and she asked If I had his phone number and I handed over a little paper with his name and number on it, she took my ID and said ok I'll be right back let me check this out, she came back and said she couldn't contact him so she had to ask me to leave, just for right now. I said I understood but really I felt like it was on her to prove that I didn't have permission to be there, after all I did have permission and wasn't doing anything wrong. She said maybe next time to have something in writing, which I told her I didn't really understand how that would help seeing as I could just write a note and sign it myself, I told her you have no idea what the land owners signature looks like. she said yeah but it gives me something more to go on, I thought to myself not really lady but I just said ok and collected my stuff and left for the day, I did hunt for about an hour before she interrupted me, the only other coin I found was a 1999 dime.