This is funny what happened to me an 2 friends.years ago. i used to go to wekiva river for the yearly river clean up,they would give us a rental canoe for free for the day plus a box of garbage bags, we could pick up trash anywhere along the river or in it,so we all brought our scuba equipment,plus i brought my underwater metal detector, we got about 4 trash bags full of beer cans,plus 1 friend found a wallet with about 200 bux cash in it but no id,i found a camera an a cell phone,after we turned in our bags,i suggested that we paddle up stream to the wekiva state park where there was a big pool on the other side of this walk bridge,the pool wasnt really in the state park area,but they had rental canoes there an alot of people would turn over thier canoes and i thought would lose whatever wasnt tied down.so we tied up the canoe on the far side near the river,all three of us went down,it was only 15-20 feet deep,4 feet of silt at the bottom,we got to the area where they launch the canoes i was detecting an just got a goodie bag full of cans an some pop tops,then i noticed some canoers trying to poke paddles down at me,well it got worse all 3 of us were getting paddles poked at us one of my buddies grabbed one of the paddles an the canoe tipped over,what i saw almost made me spit out my reg,i was laughing so hard i almost sucked in water,in the water struggling an trying to swim was 2 seminole county cops an 1 park ranger all with full uniforms and guns on.well we all surfaced an went to the canoe launch site,where the 2 cops gave us the third degree an kept saying that we wernt allowed to scuba dive in the state park.well i informed them that we wernt in the state park an that if they could show me a law that said we wernt supposed to be there then i would believe them,they threatned to take away all our equip.the ranger never said a word.they never saw the md,they finally said just leave.so we all did laughing all the way back to our trucks.i guess that will teach those cops not to poke paddles at divers ever again.
! She was really excited and I thought she was going to lite into me. She was all but screaming when she ask me just what I thought I was doing. I told her that I had gotten permission from the lady inside. She said that lady had no authority to give me permission. I apologized and told her in a calm voice that I was sorry and that I would leave. I had picked up quite a bit of trash and one or two clad coins ( I thinks the property had been detected over many times before me.) I showed her the trash I had picked up and offered to give her back the couple of coins I'd found and she quited down a little but she was still shakeing. I think she must have thought I was going to give her a bad time or something. Anyway the moral to this story is to have WRITTEN permission from the person in charge. The second time I was ask to leave was in a Seattle city park. I had ask for and recieved permission by mail that it was alright to detect in Seattle's city parks and I carried the letter in my wallet just in case I was ever stopped. Sure enough, one day I ran into one of the park employees that was working nearby and he got all excited about me digging in the park. I always fill in the holes and try to leave the area just like I found it. He ask me what I was doing and I showed him a handfull of coins I had found and also the garbage I had picked up. He was one of those guys that had a superior attitude and told me not to dig in the park. I told him that I had permission and was going to show him my letter. He started raising his voice and getting excited before I could get the letter out. I figured it wasn't worth argueing with the guy, so I told him I would leave. I've detected in a LOT of Seattle parks and have never had any other problems. I think there are a few people like to throw their weight around and it's best that we just "put our tails beteen our legs and leave" as someone else said. I used to be really shy about asking permission and have missed a lot of good places to detect. When you ask for permission, they can only say yes or no and I have found that most people are really nice and say yes. The ones that say no are pretty nice as well. It's a lot better to hear the "no" before you get started than to hear it after you get caught without permission! Get permission, it's better to be safe than sorry...
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The reason they 'pushed your buttons", [I imagine] , is because you are so easy to wind up. ? "Cheers".? ?
