Sad but true

[Anonymous]

Last year I went to a playground on a drizzly day while no children were present. The entire area was fenced in and covered with wood chips. I was retrieving all signals possibly looking for a ring lost by a parent while pushing their child on a swing, etc. I retrieved several coins and alot of junk including shards of metal and sharp objects. A park caretaker saw me there and quickly came in and ask what I was doing. I showed him the trash and coins I found and explained to him how accurately I retrieved an item but from the look in his eye you would have thought I was in there with a backhoe. I tried to tell him that 90% of what I'm doing is picking up trash and some of this trash is sharp or pointed metal that for obvious reasons is beneficial to be removed. He wouldn't have any of that and shortly asked me to leave and I politely did. But sometime I would just like to say "maybe I should just put this stuff right back where I found it" and scatter the stuff back out.
P.S. My CZ70 was insanely deep in the wood chips.

 

[Anonymous]

I've always thought the same thing, although I've never been asked to leave an area like that.
"Sure, I'll leave. Hold on a second though and I'll put this stuff back!".
And ditto on the depth in wood chips. I was out for about 30 minutes yesterday in a woodchip playground with my 'z70. I dropped the sensitivity to 2 and still dug a couple coins in the dirt below the chips.
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[Anonymous]

Take a sampling of all the junk you remove from parks, like nails,glass, bottlecaps, screwcaps, BULLETS, fired and unfired,HYPODERMIC NEEDLES, and go to the Man who administers the park system, and show him; you might also bring along any clippings of detecrorist AIDING LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL. If that don't work, try the MAYOR.