Jo ann
Elite Member
I grew some today!
I planned the day, printed out my contact info, with md ethics on the backside, as well as as a small line that I am an illustrator\artist and md hobbyist, charged up my personal camera, and took my tiny trowl out of my bag,.
Armed with only a probe, at pro, and pinpointer I headed to the park that hates metal detectorists, prepared for battle and maybe even jail.
Parked the car in the center of the maintance crews and marched over to the closes one, I could see him steaming, eyes glaring, then he saw I wasnt stopping he ducked behind a pillar to the shelter... I gave him a huge smile and shouted a friendly hello and approched him, he certainly didnt have a smile for me, good thing Im married to a cave man and am used to Marine type stare downs.
me: "Im here to metal detect"
"are you going to have a ptoblem with that?"
Him: "we dont want metal detectors here"
me: "I know that, but Ive been told that We are allowed to and the law says we can, so Im telling you that I will be metal detecting here, and I will be picking up trash that I find and I will be using a probe as in this counties law, and I will be filling any holes that other detectors might have left!"
I hand him my contact infomation and he starts waving it away,
Him: "I dont want that I know it the law"
I shove it to him totake he looks down and goes, "Oh, thats about who you are" "ok, but no digging"
me: "no digging! Bye" big friendly smile.
so I marched over to where there was the least place they would worry about, knowing I would be doing more damage control and PR than detecting, and I waited for the police to show up.... nothing... I waited for wild haired crazy lady to show up..... nothing, I did get honked at when their boss showed up I ignored him as he stomped around.
I found a few coins on the surface but mostly picked up garabage and filled in the holes that the stealth MDers left and one an animal left, I didnt see any squirrels, and wondered if they killed them,
for those that are going to scream at me for making my presence known, dont! Because as it is mders already get run out of this park illegaly, and so Im making our presence known until they get use to us.
I had forgotten to turn on my camera when I approached the man, but I keep it on when I detect that park, and I log times and dates.
This my home now and Im not going to be run off.
Whoever that stealth detectorist is needs to cover their tracks better,
I planned the day, printed out my contact info, with md ethics on the backside, as well as as a small line that I am an illustrator\artist and md hobbyist, charged up my personal camera, and took my tiny trowl out of my bag,.
Armed with only a probe, at pro, and pinpointer I headed to the park that hates metal detectorists, prepared for battle and maybe even jail.
Parked the car in the center of the maintance crews and marched over to the closes one, I could see him steaming, eyes glaring, then he saw I wasnt stopping he ducked behind a pillar to the shelter... I gave him a huge smile and shouted a friendly hello and approched him, he certainly didnt have a smile for me, good thing Im married to a cave man and am used to Marine type stare downs.
me: "Im here to metal detect"
"are you going to have a ptoblem with that?"
Him: "we dont want metal detectors here"
me: "I know that, but Ive been told that We are allowed to and the law says we can, so Im telling you that I will be metal detecting here, and I will be picking up trash that I find and I will be using a probe as in this counties law, and I will be filling any holes that other detectors might have left!"
I hand him my contact infomation and he starts waving it away,
Him: "I dont want that I know it the law"
I shove it to him totake he looks down and goes, "Oh, thats about who you are" "ok, but no digging"
me: "no digging! Bye" big friendly smile.
so I marched over to where there was the least place they would worry about, knowing I would be doing more damage control and PR than detecting, and I waited for the police to show up.... nothing... I waited for wild haired crazy lady to show up..... nothing, I did get honked at when their boss showed up I ignored him as he stomped around.
I found a few coins on the surface but mostly picked up garabage and filled in the holes that the stealth MDers left and one an animal left, I didnt see any squirrels, and wondered if they killed them,
for those that are going to scream at me for making my presence known, dont! Because as it is mders already get run out of this park illegaly, and so Im making our presence known until they get use to us.
I had forgotten to turn on my camera when I approached the man, but I keep it on when I detect that park, and I log times and dates.
This my home now and Im not going to be run off.
Whoever that stealth detectorist is needs to cover their tracks better,