Tom_in_CA
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Metal Detecting 101 | National Geographic Channel
I'm sure maybe some of you have seen that link by now?
No, it's not the media (aka "publicity") that "made us look bad" here. Nor the "archies" that "make us look bad" in this link here. It's the CLOWN "William Mooney" from Florida, who goes waltzing off to the bureaucrats asking them "can I dig up this spot in *your* beach? Which I am *90% sure* is *treasure*?" I mean, c'mon! What a clown! What did he EXPECT a legally obligated archie or bureaucrat would answer to that??
For starters, this William fellow is probably a dreamer, and it's just a hubcab signal. And now all he's done is give a bunch of bored bureaucrats a pressing issue that they must address "through all the proper legal channels". And, doh, what did you EXPECT the archies, they consult, to say? If asked an archie if I can dig a zinc penny in my local sandbox, there are archies who would give me that same answer! (yet do you think they really cared, or were monitoring that sandbox? It's a case of "no one caring till you ask" type thing).
I mean, for pete's sake, the media is just going to cite the quotes that those folks say. And NONE OF IT would have happened, if "William" had kept his mouth shut, and just dug the fricken signal! Sure, even if it means coming back at night to have a little discretion a keeping busy-bodies at bay. Heck, the mere fact he was detecting there, tells me that ...... apparently, the mere act of metal detecting was not forbidden. So what was the problem?
So if you ask me, the "persecution" is brought on here, as is often the case, by the William fellow himself. Who gets attention, media, and "rules written" and "publicity publicized", by being the squeeky wheel begging for grease.
I'm sure maybe some of you have seen that link by now?
No, it's not the media (aka "publicity") that "made us look bad" here. Nor the "archies" that "make us look bad" in this link here. It's the CLOWN "William Mooney" from Florida, who goes waltzing off to the bureaucrats asking them "can I dig up this spot in *your* beach? Which I am *90% sure* is *treasure*?" I mean, c'mon! What a clown! What did he EXPECT a legally obligated archie or bureaucrat would answer to that??
For starters, this William fellow is probably a dreamer, and it's just a hubcab signal. And now all he's done is give a bunch of bored bureaucrats a pressing issue that they must address "through all the proper legal channels". And, doh, what did you EXPECT the archies, they consult, to say? If asked an archie if I can dig a zinc penny in my local sandbox, there are archies who would give me that same answer! (yet do you think they really cared, or were monitoring that sandbox? It's a case of "no one caring till you ask" type thing).
I mean, for pete's sake, the media is just going to cite the quotes that those folks say. And NONE OF IT would have happened, if "William" had kept his mouth shut, and just dug the fricken signal! Sure, even if it means coming back at night to have a little discretion a keeping busy-bodies at bay. Heck, the mere fact he was detecting there, tells me that ...... apparently, the mere act of metal detecting was not forbidden. So what was the problem?
So if you ask me, the "persecution" is brought on here, as is often the case, by the William fellow himself. Who gets attention, media, and "rules written" and "publicity publicized", by being the squeeky wheel begging for grease.
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