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[JimGilmore]

OK, I've downloaded and printed out the form to apply for a permit to detect NYC parks. and filled it out,and mailed it to the parks and rec dept today. We shall see if I get approved an how long it takes to get back.

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Gotta start somewhere! Let us know what you find out!

 

[Ken in Georgia]

Good Luck !!!!

 

[Jessgo33]

they permit you? whats the odds? Could be some real good finds in those older parks.. good luck, and i hope you get granted access..

 

[jmaryt]

that's unbelievable!..our hobby has come to this!
hot damn!'''..people!..cover your holes!..just sayin!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

 

[tabman]

that's unbelievable!..our hobby has come to this!
hot damn!'''..people!..cover your holes!..just sayin!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

If every hole was covered you would still have people wanting to tell you what you can and can not do, because they have nothing better to do.

I figure if I pay taxes, I should have just as much right as anyone else to use the park. I do far less damage than kids do playing sports.

 

[JimGilmore]

Biggest issue is not what we do but what people think we do.
People see you detect and think the hoes dogs, and gophers make are from us.
They see an area under the trees and think they are bare from us. But do not say anything about the carpet of beer can tops, and bottle tops that litter every inch of the bare spots.
There rules prohibit what they call probing within 50 feet of any tree. Yet they let ball players paly foot ball,soccer and baseball on the brass using cleats and tear the grass out in clumps....It defies any sense of real logic that metal detecting and removing coins and stuff from that ground would create anything but a better soil for grass and trees.

 

[jmaryt]

i agree!..there are 'ALWAYS' people who will never be satisfied no matter what we do!
i have no answer for that 'attitude" EXCEPT that if we all KNOW we are tryin' to do the
RIGHT thing,then there is consolation,and satisfaction in that!..just sayin!