The Life You Save May Be Your Own : Please Read !!

[grumpy]

Hi Folks;
We would like to convey a very important story to you folks. The wife and I, tho not by any means experts, do a bit of metal detecting together all over the country and had a first time experience with real danger the other night. We own a gunmetal refinishing business and after the fact being well acquainted with guns and law enforcement people realized just how close we could have came to the end.
The story starts with an old school late 1800's early 1900's that has been surrounded by new buildings built around it with a new school. We found where the old building sat and were detecting a sports field about a hundred feet from the old part of the building. It was late about 9:00 but it was a long summer day and we could still see somewhat and hated to quit just yet.
Now you have to picture this to get the whole jest of this, the wife usually pinpoints after I find the target with a bullseye pinpointer ( long black barrel about 8 inches ). and then I dig up the target and we work together with this operation.
Story continues: she is standing beside me while I am bent over digging the target and she has her trusty pinpointer in hand , this is when in our part of the world we say all "Hell broke loose". I'm there on my knees with my head in a hole and she is standing there with the pinpointer looking down on me when not one or two but THREE cop cars come flying across the school parking lot with spot lights and red lights flashing!!! Without thinking being not of the criminal mind she turns towards the lights and said "I think you better cover that hole REAL QUICK". Cop cars stop at the fence about 75 feet from us and the three cars unloaded 2 cops each that headed to the fence between us and them, around the fence and trying to go over the fence (Dunkin Donut kept this event from happening) all officers were in a great toot so I stood up which evidently stopped the problem cold.? When the wife turned with the pinpointer in had toward the cops its a wonder she didn't get shot but when I stood up the crime was actually over.?? Someone had called the cops on us for they saw us in the field and it was two people , one was evidently beating the other with a pipe and that is what they told the police when they called!!!! So when I stood up they could see I was not near death and it was a mistake. It could have been shoot first and ask questions later when she turned toward them with the pinpointer so it would serve as a warning to be cautious of your situation at all times as you never know what might cause the circumstances to change instantly on you, even just metal detecting.
Now were trying to find out if the person who lived where they could see us was really short of good sight or someone living nearby didn't want to share their favorite metal detecting spot with us????
Long story short which it was not ; Stay aware of what is going on around you and what you may look like your doing if others see you at all times , better safe than sorry.
Happy Hunting
Grumpy and Esther : with their first gold and diamond ring;

 

[RonNH]

I've heard of people calling the cops when something bad was really going down and they show up too late. I'm glad nobody was hurt. Someone called the cops on me when they saw me hunting in a church yard (I had permission). I had the sense to sheath my Lesche tool when I saw him approach. It's a jungle out there. Ron

 

[monindou]

I was digging through older posts on the forum in hopes of answering some questions I have with me new SE and I ran across this story from Grump, and well I'd like to share with you what happened to my son and I about 4 weeks ago at 11:00 PM near down town Omaha, Nebraska....


Although my oldest son lives 100 miles from home, I down his way 2-3 days per week due to my job. When I'm down there I stay with him and before he started back to college we detected together in the evenings. Here's what the stage looked like..

I was at his brownstone apartment located across for the Mutual of Omaha buildings very near down town Omaha, having gotten off of work at 5:00 PM and gone detecting until past dark and I'm now relaxing on his sofa watching the History Channel dressed in a pair of gym shorts and drinking a Diet Dew. My son came walking into the apartment, having just gotten home from evening college classes, it was about 10:30 PM. Keep in mind now that I'd just got my new SE, its in the trunk of the car; the machine is mounted with a DX1 and a Joey coil. I showed him my finds and I'm excited about how well I'm transitioning from my DFX to the SE, and he's getting excited listening to me. Since he hadn't seen the SE he I told him that may we could swing a little stick in the front yard of the apartment, I mean it's now 11:00 PM, it's a nice night, what the heck right?

Well, we walked the 40 feet from the apartment to the street where I promptly opened my trunk and pulled out the SE. With the Evil Black Assault Weapon in my nimble and able hands about shoulder the weapon, I flip the tap and extend the lower rod, I boot it up, I turn on the backlight, and I hand it to my son. He promptly shoulders it to get a better view of the SmartFind screen and them we both step over the sidewalk on to the very small lawn in from of the 1920's brownstone and he lowers the coil to the ground, dawns the headphones and I begin to coach him while he slowly swings the beast across the grass and listens for the first time to the beautiful sounds that emanate from the gullet of the monster.

All of a sudden three Omaha PD squads come screaming up, spot lights on, and over speaker comes, "You! You! You with the assault rifle! Drop the weapon! Of course he just keeps on detecting since he doesn't have a weapon, he's got an Explorer SE! And I, being the helpful half dressed Dew drinking citizen I am, I leisurely began walking up the lead squad car - which the windows were down in - and tried to tell the over eager defender of public law enforcement that he was holding my very new and very expensive metal detector, that he lived at the address, and that the Evil Black Assault Weapon would not get dropped to the ground in any such careless manner. Of course by that time weapons where drawn, I was being yelled at, etc. But only though skillful diplomacy and continued verbalization while keeping a firm hand on my Diet Dew as I able to pursuable the officers to allow to obtain the beast from my son in order to show them that although their work was valiant, they really needed to talk a look at the SE for themselves and then go after the guy down the block that has selling Meth to every car that stopped at the lights.

Needless to say, after a good laugh and embarrassment on the behalf of public service my son and I continued a good belly roll for the next 15 minutes while he proceeded to dig a 1959 D Roosevelt out of the yard and we watched the neighbor get busted.

The lesson here

 

[Steve(MS)]

n/t

 

[jbow]

Don't you wish people would mind their own stinkin' business?? Or at least take the time to see what is really going on. I think they were messing with you because they did not like you detecting there. Anyone who thought they saw someone beating someone with a pipe would watch long enough to see the truth. They lied to the police in order to cause you trouble...

What losers they are.

Julien

 

[sasquache]

omg!!!!!

 

[cspene]

n/t

 

[BlackX]

Just had a similar incident 2 nights ago. See the 2nd paragraph in the Sovereign forum here: http://www.findmall.com/read.php?21,645401,645401#msg-645401

 

[monindou]

I'm honestly LMAO now, I know exactly what you went through... over reaction by girls gone wild! Heeheheeeee.

I can see it in a few years... when the Office of Homeland Security gets involved after their spy satellites see us detecting in the
dark... oh I can feel the water boarding now : (