A disturbing site I found while seaching for grounds to MD

[leesumm]

I was searching the net for Arkansas and Metal Detecting laws for state lands and ran into this site which to me just getting started in the hobby is very depressing . Would any one like to give some feed back ?
The site link is ( I hope this works ) :http://www.metaldetecting-ghost-towns-of-the-east.com/metaldetectinglaws.html
I copied and pasted the URL from one browser to the other and then pasted again to test it and it comes up the same on one browser as it did on the other
Seems that where ever you go in the USA if you are metal detecting or not if you pick up anything over 100 years old you broke a law and can go to jail or be fined

 

[tabdog]

I quit reading when I figgured out how full of it that is.

You can not arrest a little girl or her parents for picking up rocks at any camp site.

That's total bull. If it did happen, it's a stupid person hasstleing someone. In that case,

he was out of line for harrasment and was the one who may have broke the law.

Some people like to streach the truth just to raise hell and to get people to nitice them.

I would not trust any bull spread on that site.

I'm not that easily convenced of anything except that site is mostly reactionary BS.

I don't need it. Life's too shout.

HH

 

[GRAY GHOST]

hey lee, its like the old and archaic laws here in va. that if youre caught playing poker for money, then you can go to jail and be fined. what a ridiculous law. no judge in their right mind would prosecute you for metal detecting. theres too many of us out here who would back you. hh,

 

[leesumm]

I know there a lot of laws still on the books everywhere that make no sense what so ever and are stupid. I used to drive a truck and traveled the New England states a lot in the late 60's early 70's in particular Hartford , Conn. I was sitting at a receivers door one day and a DOT officer came by and stopped and wanted to check my papers, He looked in my truck and said you dont have white sheets on your bed. Puzzled I looked at him funny and said "what are you talking about " ? His reply was ," there is a law on the books from the 1700's that all beds have to have white sheets ". Just because I was an out of state . And a truck driver I was hasseled . Nothing happened but true there is a law from the 1700's that in case of a battle and the medical people ran out of bandages they could use the sheets for bandages. Its still on the books . There is anoter law in Boston I think "no iron wheeled wagons on brick streets " . Many dont make sense , but they are there and there is always someone trying to push them to the limits. I posted that interested people could read something stupid

 

[khouse]

I contacted the office of a national forest that's about 3 hours from me about detecting. They wrote back and said that "low impact" detecting was allowed. But I couldn't detect posted historical sites on the property. There is no permit for detecting so I'm just going to keep the email on me in case I get stopped.

 

[JoanInCreek]

I read some Florida laws yesterday. Cannot hunt in any posted historical or state owned lands. If an item is 'displaced' from its original location (wherever that is), it's okay to pick up.

 

[GRAY GHOST]

n/t

 

[coinnut]

Gee, to me that sounds like, if some gopher happens to dig a hole where I got my coin signal, and there it is on the pile of dirt, then it's OK for me to pick it up. It's funny how many gophers follow me around.

 

[jdstawker]

[quote JoanInCreek]I read some Florida laws yesterday. Cannot hunt in any posted historical or state owned lands. If an item is 'displaced' from its original location (wherever that is), it's okay to pick up.[/quote]

If original position means point of origin it could be argued that any coin not found in the mint is fair game, any jewelry not in the shop fair game etc.

Not sure how far I would push that argument though.

 

[rmptr]

Earth First!
Hunt the other planets next.

 

[GRAY GHOST]

n/t

 

[stewartlittle]

I read something yesterday about that same girl,and also about a boy that picked up an arrowhead from a stream.Some laws are stupid.Something came up a few years ago and law enforcment said "We enforce all laws,we are only doing our job". I have seen COPS eat chicken with a fork,how come the officer next to him did'nt arrest him.After all eating chicken with a fork is illegal here,and and also spitting from a moving vehicle,it must be stopped first.
I could go on,but I know I'ld say something that some of you smokers might get mad at me for saying.

 

[khouse]

n/t

 

[JoanInCreek]

HOORAY TO THAT! If whatever we find is so important, those who call us 'looters' should have gotten to it first! POSSESSION IS NINE TENTHS OF THE LAW!