Stewart73 (and Harvey and others) Sorry I have been condescending. I will tone it down.
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Stewart, you say:
"If it says 'no digging' then technically 'digging' is illegal, regardless of whether you fill the hole back in..."
The issue of disturb versus disturb
ED, and alter versus the alter
ED is pretty defensible. But you're right: The d
Ig versus d
Ug distinction is quite problematic. Because yes, there's the temporary evil process of extraction, where .... yes, you did "dig", however-so-quickly. And having left no trace STILL doesn't mean a person didn't "dig". Thus yes, I am the first to agree that this is problematic. Therefore, let's say, for argument's sake, that you are totally right: That's it's universally illegal. Clear-cut, and not up to anyone's interpretation to say-otherwise. OK?
Then that merely presents another problem: Because if that's the case, then how is it that people have routinely gotten permission to dig and detect in parks ? I mean, a city person can't give permission to someone to break the law, can they? For example: they can't permit you to shoplift, exceed the speed limit, etc.... right? Therefore, the mere fact that opinions DO vary (as evidenced by the "yes's"), simply means that it
IS up for interpretation. Because if it WERE as cut & dried as you're saying , then .... how can people get permission then ? Mind you verbage like that exists in every single park in the entire united states, in some form or fashion. right?
And a lot of the other objections here are still understandibly doubtful of my stance that people asking can BRING about laws, rules, or policies I thought that the way to show this is to cite a bunch of case-stories. But then this would merely be met with the criticism that I am instigating arguments, or responses like that I think I'm
" ...the keeper of the one Great Truth and those who question or disagree are simply stuck at various levels of 'not quite getting it yet'.... " So therefore I changed my mind and won't be posting such examples (unless they come out in the course of others threads, by-way-of-example).