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Commandments of Metal Detecting These
are the statutes, judgments and edicts which must be obeyed by all those
who wield detectors of metal:
1. Thou shalt not leave behind unfilled excavations.
2. Thou shalt not trespass or defy in any way the lawful decrees of thy
city, county, state, province or country.
3. Thou shalt not harm vegetation, the creatures of the field, natural
resources or the personal property of others.
4. Thou shalt not covet the finds of thy companion. Nor shall ye covet
his metal detector, digging tool or the hallowed place in
which he diggeth.
5. Thou shalt not ignore nor neglect thy family and friends whilst in
the endless pursuit of thy hobby.
6. Thou shalt assist the distraught owners of lost goods and the
archeologists and the enforcers of law and all others who may
need thy skill as a metal detectorist.
7. Thou shalt return found treasures to the proper owners whenever their
true identity can be rightfully determined.
8. Thou shalt report to the proper authorities any find relating to
criminal activity or of archeological significance.
9. Thou shalt be considerate of others on the beach and in other public
places whilst waving thy search coil and digging holes in the sand
and the soil.
10. Thou shalt speak out against the unjust laws and stand firm against
the Philistines who would cast out all those who would use
detectors of metal.
And if thou dost not abide by these
Commandments, may you be plagued with mineral - bearing rocks, hard
packed soil, pestilence, serpents, locusts, poisonous vegetation
and great multitudes of pull-tabs, bottlecaps and rusty nails. May ye
spend the remaining years of thy wretched life digging signals of
false origins. For thy iniquities shall surely bring the
overzealous wrath of the ignorant, heathen bureaucrats down upon those
of us who are innocent. For we are the righteous and the just and ye who
do not obey the Ten Commandments of Metal Detecting are doomed to bad
luck.
-Author Unknown
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