Bonesquat
Elite Member
Something interesting happened to me about 20 minutes ago. I thought I'd share this with you. I went to a school 2 miles down the road from my house to MD a school I have done many many times at night with no problems, until tonight. My advice is at the bottom of the story, sorry for the long post in advance.
I got out the MXT and other equipment, turned on my red beam headlamp and started swinging. I got about 5 pieces of junk and then I see a car pull into the school and park behind my car. I notice the very distinct Crown Victoria headlights. "Great. Now the cops are going to think I'm doing something bad." So I just kept on swinging like normal and got a solid half dollar signal! Then a light from the cop points right at me. I'm thinking "oh great, what does he want". He tells me to drop what I'm carrying and put my hands on my head as if I were holding an RPG. I comply and he comes over and frisks me down very thoroughly....
He then proceeds to flash his light on my MXT. He's all like, "what's that?". I said flatly, "a metal detector". I told him to search my pouch. He did and found garbage and an unopened brand new pack of AAA batteries. He asked where I got them from. Where else? The store of course! (didn't say that but was thinking it). I think he was suggesting I had stole them.
After he tells me how suspicious my car was parked and how it looked with a guy walking around swinging a metal object with a red light on the head, he takes my license and tells me he is going to check on any known warrants for my name. I tell him, "please be my guest, do you need my insurance also?". I'm being super nice to him. As he's checking my information another squad car pulls in! "Wonderful, I'm being arrested for no reason. Awesome". Turns out the little weiner guy all of 5 foot 5 called in backup, for a METAL DETECTORIST! HA! I guess the Lesche did the trick.
He said that from the road he thought a guy was holding a shotgun at a woman on the ground and that I was like an alien because of the red headlight. So guys, we're a bunch of aliens holding women hostage I guess. I can live with that so long as I keep finding the goods!
When all was said and done I told them to keep up the good work and he said sorry he had to tell me to leave and stuff. I told him the summer heat makes me hunt at night - he seemed to understand but it still annoyed me. This was my only chance tonight to hunt for a while.
To end my post: Please if you're going to hunt at night anywhere, make sure the area is either well lit and open or HIDE your car better than I did tonight and do NOT hunt anywhere near the road. I had been doing that mostly but there have been times where a cop has passed me at night and I was detecting WITH bright headlamp and they just kept going. I guess this cop was just looking for trouble where he could find it. In the country by an old middle school. Anyways, HH and hope you don't get frisked like I did!
Rick
I got out the MXT and other equipment, turned on my red beam headlamp and started swinging. I got about 5 pieces of junk and then I see a car pull into the school and park behind my car. I notice the very distinct Crown Victoria headlights. "Great. Now the cops are going to think I'm doing something bad." So I just kept on swinging like normal and got a solid half dollar signal! Then a light from the cop points right at me. I'm thinking "oh great, what does he want". He tells me to drop what I'm carrying and put my hands on my head as if I were holding an RPG. I comply and he comes over and frisks me down very thoroughly....
He then proceeds to flash his light on my MXT. He's all like, "what's that?". I said flatly, "a metal detector". I told him to search my pouch. He did and found garbage and an unopened brand new pack of AAA batteries. He asked where I got them from. Where else? The store of course! (didn't say that but was thinking it). I think he was suggesting I had stole them.
After he tells me how suspicious my car was parked and how it looked with a guy walking around swinging a metal object with a red light on the head, he takes my license and tells me he is going to check on any known warrants for my name. I tell him, "please be my guest, do you need my insurance also?". I'm being super nice to him. As he's checking my information another squad car pulls in! "Wonderful, I'm being arrested for no reason. Awesome". Turns out the little weiner guy all of 5 foot 5 called in backup, for a METAL DETECTORIST! HA! I guess the Lesche did the trick.
He said that from the road he thought a guy was holding a shotgun at a woman on the ground and that I was like an alien because of the red headlight. So guys, we're a bunch of aliens holding women hostage I guess. I can live with that so long as I keep finding the goods! When all was said and done I told them to keep up the good work and he said sorry he had to tell me to leave and stuff. I told him the summer heat makes me hunt at night - he seemed to understand but it still annoyed me. This was my only chance tonight to hunt for a while.
To end my post: Please if you're going to hunt at night anywhere, make sure the area is either well lit and open or HIDE your car better than I did tonight and do NOT hunt anywhere near the road. I had been doing that mostly but there have been times where a cop has passed me at night and I was detecting WITH bright headlamp and they just kept going. I guess this cop was just looking for trouble where he could find it. In the country by an old middle school. Anyways, HH and hope you don't get frisked like I did!
Rick
