I liked Knippers post...it was good advice to talk calmly and assert our rights to a casual busybody, or curious park employee. My experience with crazy people like the guy that approached Josey and his Father is to retreat. Unless you feel like throwing down. Anybody that confronts in that large of an aggressive manner is best retreated from. No sane person would dare confront a stranger in that fashion, a sane person would be more cordial in their approach to determine if there is or could be a physical threat to their own existance. I hunt a lot of inner city parks, I should not be there at any time, yet there are some small windows of opportunity that a fellow can take advantage of and get in and get out unnoticed...I have just as much right to be there as anyone, but I doubt that explanation would save me, my gear, or my truck should I dilly dally, attract attention, or go at the wrong time. When your hair stands up on the back of your neck, you probably stayed too long. However, any kind of Pinpointer that buzzes can be confused by the uneducated as some sort of tazer when brandished as if it was, or a walkie talkie of some sort, allowing a person to bravely walk away from a confrontation...Its a masterful skill to walk this planet anywhere unnoticed...
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Nice day at the park turns bad!!!:(
- Thread starter Josey Wales
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well, yes then, I grant you that there might be some parks (one-horse towns where the town-grump lives right across the street, or whatever). And yes, even avoiding high traffic times, when busy-bodies are less likely to be there, can still fail. In the same way, while driving, you can not 100% avoid someone flipping you off (because they think you did a poor lane change), then yes, it's inevetable, that sometimes you can not avoid 100% of kill-joys. To be honest with you, it's gotten to where I do some parks at night. NOT because there's any specific rule forbidding detecting (as was the case with you too, where there was no "specific" verbage), but simply to steer clear of busy-bodies. So quiet, so peaceful, etc... 
Your eyes will adjust to the moon and starlight
But sure, if it's a "must do" park, and if there's no way to avoid this kill-joy, then in rare cases you might have to fight it, (if you really wanted to hunt there). Just be aware though, that all this kill-joy has to say is "he was tearing up the park" (even though that's not true), and you will loose the debate. If/when you enter into the debate of semantics on whether or not your leave no marks, the mere fact that you'll be admitting to digging (or probing or whatever), is going to put that bureaucratic decision maker into a mental image mode that ....... well .... you know what the easy answer is going to be.
Your eyes will adjust to the moon and starlight But sure, if it's a "must do" park, and if there's no way to avoid this kill-joy, then in rare cases you might have to fight it, (if you really wanted to hunt there). Just be aware though, that all this kill-joy has to say is "he was tearing up the park" (even though that's not true), and you will loose the debate. If/when you enter into the debate of semantics on whether or not your leave no marks, the mere fact that you'll be admitting to digging (or probing or whatever), is going to put that bureaucratic decision maker into a mental image mode that ....... well .... you know what the easy answer is going to be.
Critterhunter
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I have to agree with that. If you are in a one horse town and you simply can't avoid the problem because he is always working there or lives across the street, then yes...That's when your back is against the wall and it won't do any more harm to stand up for your rights with that person, or take it to the city authorities and see if you can get permission to detect there.
On the other hand, if there are other public owned places in that town that you also like to detect, then approaching the authorities might give you a "No" and thus blow your ability to detect other areas that the guy isn't at. In that case if you've already been told "No" to detect public places in that city, and they end up finding you hunting somewhere else, then you no longer have an excuse to fall back on that might otherwise get you out of the situation.
On the other hand, if there are other public owned places in that town that you also like to detect, then approaching the authorities might give you a "No" and thus blow your ability to detect other areas that the guy isn't at. In that case if you've already been told "No" to detect public places in that city, and they end up finding you hunting somewhere else, then you no longer have an excuse to fall back on that might otherwise get you out of the situation.
So if I went there hitting golf balls and chewed up the turf he would probably do nothing. Ironically the guy with a discriminator, who does not indiscriminately make holes is the one being discriminated against. Here is the setup for lawsuit: golfer is white, detectorest any popular minority. Get arrested and claim racial discrimination and let him explain why he was not and was only apposed to high tech gadgets.