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Attitude to detectorists :starwars:

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Mirco

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OK folks,

Today, Saturday, after five hours of work in my home office I decided to take a little pleasant afternoon break :stars:and to detect for half an hour in my front yard and adjoining side strip with the recently serviced by Gary cute Wader.

We have a very quiet street. About three-four typically Saturday`s people passed by in 20 minutes , when a man of I think 35 y.o. (whom I never saw in our small private neighbourhood before) in a nice beige Saturday suit stopped in 10-15 feet from me and began openly and directly observing my digging activity. In about 10 minutes I felt it enough and looked at him and said "How are you!"

In response , as much unfriendly as possible there was said - " What are you looking for there?!":ranting:

"Well... Whatever. Maybe an old coin":rolleyes:

(In a very demanding tone) - "Do you live here?!":ranting:

"Where?":rolleyes:

" I asked you, do you live here, in this neighbourhood?!":angry:

"Well... Yes I do":rolleyes:

(In a very demanding tone) "Do you live in this house?!" (Pointing to the house next to mine.):ranting:

"Well... No...":rolleyes:

(In a very demanding tone) " What are you doing here?! Where do you live?!":rant:

"Here. In this house" (Pointing to my house):unsure:

(In a very demanding and irritated tone) " You live in this house?!":poke:

"Yes I do. I live in this house":rolleyes:

After a little hesitation and without saying a further word the man turned around and walked away fast.:chase:

I detected another 10-15 minutes :detecting:and returned to my report. During this time police did not come. I was able to keep freshly found thirteen cents:biteme:.

Apparently in my metal detecting attire I did not look belonging to this nice neigbourhood. Especially on Saturday.:nopity:

I never saw this nice gentleman before and hopefully will never see him in the future. :cry:
 
LOL - If you see him again, tell him: "Nosie Nancy - take a long walk off a short pier!!!" LOL
 
treasurefiend said:
LOL - If you see him again, tell him: "Nosie Nancy - take a long walk off a short pier!!!" LOL
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To receive on Monday a letter from his attorney?:surrender:

Living in this neighbourhood for about fifteen years I am pretty much familiar with this type of young gentlemen in neat daytime Saturday suits, so I better keep silent. I am happy that he did not call police to arrest me for MDing in my front yard.:stars:

I wouldn`t be very surprised though.:yikes:
 
My first question to him would have been "Who wants to know?".

My last question to him would have been "Have you considered a prescription of Enzyte?"

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I think you had an encounter with one of the rulers of the world. Seems like there are millions of them!
 
Mirco my friend you have bumped into paranoia that surrounds you.
I used to work for a survey company that sent me all over the U.S. I don't know how many times the guy from across the street or from down the block would come out and ask what I was doing.
When you are detecting in front of your house or another house, you are abnormal to your neighbors. You draw attention, you are different, you don't fit, so those people want to know what you are doing there. It is usually the people who think they know everything about the neighborhood. You are just different enough, but don't pose a threat that they will come and ask.
If you have the patience to deal with the situation and talk to the guy about what you are doing, don't be surprised if he doesn't give you a tip for your next detecting spot.
I don't know how many times in a strange city dealing with all kinds of neighborhoods people would actually give me the information I needed to get to my next survey or restaurant or motel or bar for a drink or a social gathering going on in town.
Only my observation....Z
 
who knows!.. but maybe he really was a closet "homosexual",and he wanted to have sex with you

(h.h!)
j.t.
 
just kidding!..these days,with so many "nut bags" walkin' around!.it's flip a coin!

regards!
(h.h!)
j.t.
 
my girlfriend daughter and i were at a local park when 7 16 year old boys rolled up on bikes....too dumb to drive i suppose informed me they were gonna shove my metal detector up my arse....laughing uncontrollably i handed him my detector and i said and i quote,i gonna whoop all seven of you.my gf and kid were in shock.im no fighter btw but im out minding my own business.later in the week they were caught beating up a six year old.moral of the story..if we continue to let punks get away with this stuff they will rule the world
 
I've run into a few guys, and a couple of women, that were arseholes about detecting but the worst one was a guy I worked with. We were in different departments and only ran into each other about once a week, but every time we did he would start about how stupid I was for hunting for dirty coins. I thought it was kinda funny and would just smile, but he was dead serious about it. One day when I was hunting at the old football field here in town I found a huge 10 kt nugget ring and just as I was getting up from digging it I heard a car horn honk. It was the guy and his wife driving by. The next day I took the ring to work to show a detecting buddy and ran into the guy going into the plant, the first thing he said was, "If you just knew how stupid you look using that metal detector you'd quit." I showed him the ring, told him I had just dug it when he honked and said I didn't care how stupid I looked as long as I could find stuff like the ring occasionally. His jaw dropped, and then he said, "I've been thinking of getting me a detector." I sold him the detector I found the ring with for about twice what I paid for it:). The photo, from Virtual Earth, is the old football field, the ring is in top left and the white X is approximately where it was found.
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I had a guy tell me he could find more coins in his couch. I said "but you wouldn't get dirt under fingernails" He didn't get my reply.
 
I wouldn't have answered any of his questions. I would have told him if he didn't like me being there he could call law enforcement and they could ask me questions.
I love living in in my small country neighborhood.
 
CampCache said:
I wouldn't have answered any of his questions. I would have told him if he didn't like me being there he could call law enforcement and they could ask me questions.
I love living in in my small country neighborhood.
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In one old country people say "Bad peace is better than good war"

To have neighbours - enemies is the last thing that we need.
 
Mirco said:
CampCache said:
I wouldn't have answered any of his questions. I would have told him if he didn't like me being there he could call law enforcement and they could ask me questions.
I love living in in my small country neighborhood.
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In one old country people say "Bad peace is better than good war"

To have neighbours - enemies is the last thing that we need.
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The guy was a stranger that you have never seen before. He could have been someone looking for something to steal. I know all of the people in my neighborhood.
I guess if I lived in a different neighborhood the response might have been different, but in my neighborhood my response was dead on.
 
No. I think he is somehow related to the area. In this neighbourhood you do not see people on the street. Only on Saturday when they go to do their religious things and after that go from one house to another. This guy first passed me with a girl of like 7-8 years old, he brought her into a house and then going back from that house he stopped at me

If not a fresh resident of the neighbourhood, but at least related to people who live here. He brought the girl into the house only 100 feet from my home. It means that he is their friend or relative. So any hostility wouldn`t be very smart by me. Considering also that I am of a different nationality and religion that the majority of people who live in this very small neighbourhood.

No. War is not good. I am from a country that knows what is REAL war. Not the one when five people are killed in a week. So I know - war is not good.
 
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