Explain this to me...

unojc said:

I'm new at detecting and have hunted my local parks probably 5 or 6 times in the past month. Almost every single time some car pulls in (it's a huge park) and slowly drives around. Some stop in a non spot for a few then leave. Some pull into the lot area I'm in and do a u turn and leave with no reason to pull that far into the park for nothing.



Are they bored? Checking me out? Curious? Think I'm damaging the place?



Today I'm in the far end of a park and a car pulls in, slowly drives down the road, stops, continues on slowly to the lot I'm in and again slowly does a u turn before leaving. Mind you I just got out of my car and had the suv hatch open. Hadn't even got my stuff out.



Had a woman pull into my lot near the end of my hunt and stayed there in a non spot for like 15min. I had to go and when I left I purposely drove right next to her. Some lady looking down to her lap doing who knows what.



The other day someone pulled into a different park when I had my 3yo with me while I was detecting. Did a u turn and left. Prolly saw the letche hanging from my belt lol. Another person pulled in to eat. Now that I understand.



Can anyone shed some light onto these folks for me? It's like, "hey here's a massive park with a car in it. Let me slowly drive in to look at them and leave!!"



??????

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TK-421 said:

Maybe I'm less suspicious of this because I live in Japan where it's pretty incredibly safe, but here's an alternate theory:

Maybe they're playing Pokemon Go?

The "pokestop" and gym locations are usually in and around parks and you have to being going fairly slow to play (ie- you can't zoom around and hit pokestops in rapid succession).

The intent is for players to get out and walk around and engage with their environment, but of course people are creatively lazy, which results in driving players making slow creepy loops around parks.

The person staring into her lap for 15 minutes sounds exactly like someone fighting a gym (depending on how well defended gyms are they can take a long time to defeat and claim for your team).

I play with my husband and a couple of my friends and we have been guilty of this on several occasions.

It may just a case of two potentially suspicious hobbies colliding, ne? Hehe.

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unojc said:

The Pokémon makes total sense! I need to download it just to see if that park is one that way I can cheer them on!

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jwp1964 said:

Parks are hotspots for all types of nefarious activity. Read some police blotters. Drug deals, sexual rendezvous, etc.


so, you're saying that parks are where the fun happens? Seriously, though, when I've got 30 minutes to kill, I'll park at a park, and grab a short nap in the shade occasionally, or eat a Sammi he. It's the one place I can count on finding a parking spot, and nobody cares that I park there.

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Mud-puppy said:

You can tell when somebody is up to no good...Parks are very common meeting places for all sorts of Human Naughtyness...We find the evidence...

In fact, the Park Hotspots seem to move around with the general flow of the herds throughout the year...Just like hunting on the Botswana Plains!...the herds migrate and favor certain areas at certain times and seasons...

If you find a park where a lot of general Naughtyness goes one..drinking, dope selling, family planning (settual relations), fighting, bullet casings,....yeah...you want to be hunting that one! All sorts of good stuff gets lost in these places!...you want to be there really early though...and not dilly dally or shilly shally...get in, get out...you certainly dont belong there at all...just sweep though and get the hell gone!

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