ABC reporters looking to interview detectorists

[Guest]

The ABC is at it again. Lateline tonight they are talking up the GST. Still not a squeak about the facilitation, entrenchment, or endemic mass criminality, of corporate tax dodges allowed and promoted by the unrepresentative corporate puppets in Canberra bleeding the country dry.
Snouts in the trough and the ABC picking up the spills from the melee.

 

[Ridge Runner]

The History channel have also been joining forums trying to get people to be in their shows but they always paint detectorists in a bad light, I did have a few words with them and then they get another member of their staff to join and try a new approach by posting how talented they are and what programs they have worked on, needless to say again I told them what I thought and so did the members, what happens is the programs are more about the self promoting people who want to become the next Hinch and the detectorist look A'holes As TIME TEAM did with clever editing about those 2 guys a while back. The thing is you will never be given a fair crack of the whip and you will be used just to boost their ratings and then anyone who has not got the backbone to go and do it for them selves will use it as a weapon to restrict your freedom to detect, I know I have had to go through it, and as for finding valuable items they tend to go missing from the police stations and if it was not for the fact the I offered to turn up at the police station with a TV news crew I would never have gotten my property back but within hours of telling them about the news crew my property was returned, and the lost property SGT was helping him self to Items that he liked, So this whole situation is fraught with impossible out comes,

John

 

[Captain Zero]

It's just to take the heat off of Abbot,... nothing else but treasure would turn heads away from that type of bad publicity,...I mean who in all of heck would tell an aboriginal in Australia to go back where he came from,and. ..duhhhhhh.

Just you remember sliver, he is the suppository of all knowledge.

Captn

 

[Guest]

His head is his suppository-if you get my drift.

 

[Guest]

and as for finding valuable items they tend to go missing from the police stations and if it was not for the fact the I offered to turn up at the police station with a TV news crew I would never have gotten my property back but within hours of telling them about the news crew my property was returned, and the lost property SGT was helping him self to Items that he liked, So this whole situation is fraught with impossible out comes,

John

This is why I said photograph it, and get them to photograph it. and make that part of the detailed reciept.

 

[grubstake]

...as for finding valuable items they tend to go missing from the police stations and if it was not for the fact the I offered to turn up at the police station with a TV news crew I would never have gotten my property back but within hours of telling them about the news crew my property was returned, and the lost property SGT was helping him self to Items that he liked...

I've never heard another word about any of the stuff that I've found and handed in to the police over the years and have no idea where it ends up, but it seems evident that they have zero interest in acting as a lost property office.

Semi-relevant comic relief: I found a stash of ecstacy and other illicit pills while detecting (pics below), and duly delivered it to my local cop shop that morning. The civilian on the front desk didn't want to look at any drugs and brought out a wet behind the ears young constable to see me. I told him how/where I'd found the gear (beach party leftovers) and he gazed at the array of pills in their little baggies and uttered the memorable line, "How do you know these are drugs?"

 

[Ramjet]

...as for finding valuable items they tend to go missing from the police stations and if it was not for the fact the I offered to turn up at the police station with a TV news crew I would never have gotten my property back but within hours of telling them about the news crew my property was returned, and the lost property SGT was helping him self to Items that he liked...

I've never heard another word about any of the stuff that I've found and handed in to the police over the years and have no idea where it ends up, but it seems evident that they have zero interest in acting as a lost property office.

Semi-relevant comic relief: I found a stash of ecstacy and other illicit pills while detecting (pics below), and duly delivered it to my local cop shop that morning. The civilian on the front desk didn't want to look at any drugs and brought out a wet behind the ears young constable to see me. I told him how/where I'd found the gear (beach party leftovers) and he gazed at the array of pills in their little baggies and uttered the memorable line, "How do you know these are drugs?"
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I see little baggies almost every time I go out. One recently had white crystal like substance in it. The all go in my trash pouch and into the bin at home. In the last couple of days we have had a local 18 year old die and 2 mates in a bad way in hospital from smoking synthetic cannabis called Kronic. A bad batch in the area apparently.

 

[silver]

What a miserable reception from a cocky young cop trying to sus out if you are a user when your in there doing a good deed,... he should slap himself if he reads this.
After all, it was in a snaplock bag,... if it's not lunch, it's gotta be drugs.
I would never do maryjuana,... as I'm scared of needles.

 

[Guest]

Synthetic poisons are a direct result of the criminalisation of drugs. So are turf wars and shootings, illegal firearms and criminal financing, especially the criminals in Canberra. Supply and demand capitalism at its' glowing best.

 

[Ramjet]

Synthetic poisons are a direct result of the criminalisation of drugs. So are turf wars and shootings, illegal firearms and criminal financing, especially the criminals in Canberra. Supply and demand capitalism at its' glowing best.

I saw a news story on the Kronic in NZ where it was first developed. It has been legalized and regulated by the government. I guess at least it will prevent deaths.

 

[Guest]

That is criminality of the highest order in my view RJ. They just see it as another cash cow, like durries, whatever the social or health cost. Governments have no place profiting from peoples bad habits, or facilitating their supply. Their place is to educate people on the harm they cause. Not to tax or supply them, and not to profit from their criminalisation either.

 

[Ridge Runner]

...as for finding valuable items they tend to go missing from the police stations and if it was not for the fact the I offered to turn up at the police station with a TV news crew I would never have gotten my property back but within hours of telling them about the news crew my property was returned, and the lost property SGT was helping him self to Items that he liked...

I've never heard another word about any of the stuff that I've found and handed in to the police over the years and have no idea where it ends up, but it seems evident that they have zero interest in acting as a lost property office.

Semi-relevant comic relief: I found a stash of ecstacy and other illicit pills while detecting (pics below), and duly delivered it to my local cop shop that morning. The civilian on the front desk didn't want to look at any drugs and brought out a wet behind the ears young constable to see me. I told him how/where I'd found the gear (beach party leftovers) and he gazed at the array of pills in their little baggies and uttered the memorable line, "How do you know these are drugs?"

I lost a lot of things about 4 years ago and suddenly they had no record of them, they even suggested that I must of handed them in else where. yeah Right ??

 

[Heatho]

...as for finding valuable items they tend to go missing from the police stations and if it was not for the fact the I offered to turn up at the police station with a TV news crew I would never have gotten my property back but within hours of telling them about the news crew my property was returned, and the lost property SGT was helping him self to Items that he liked...

I've never heard another word about any of the stuff that I've found and handed in to the police over the years and have no idea where it ends up, but it seems evident that they have zero interest in acting as a lost property office.

Semi-relevant comic relief: I found a stash of ecstacy and other illicit pills while detecting (pics below), and duly delivered it to my local cop shop that morning. The civilian on the front desk didn't want to look at any drugs and brought out a wet behind the ears young constable to see me. I told him how/where I'd found the gear (beach party leftovers) and he gazed at the array of pills in their little baggies and uttered the memorable line, "How do you know these are drugs?"
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20 years ago I would have kept those disco biscuits for myself, ummmm but not these days.... nooooo way.

 

[Heatho]

Synthetic poisons are a direct result of the criminalisation of drugs. So are turf wars and shootings, illegal firearms and criminal financing, especially the criminals in Canberra. Supply and demand capitalism at its' glowing best.

I saw a news story on the Kronic in NZ where it was first developed. It has been legalized and regulated by the government. I guess at least it will prevent deaths.

Not necessarily Rod, a new type of Synthetic that targets the endocannabinoid receptors they were trialling in France had similar results to this Kronic stuff, 1 person brain dead and 5 others seriously ill. They only call them synthetic Cannabis due to the neurological receptors they target, that is where the similarity with these new synthetics and Cannabis end, they really are nothing like any of the natural Cannabinoids in Cannabis. Cannabis really is a wonder drug for some people and ailments whereas these synthetics are actually very dangerous it seems.

https://news.vice.com/article/the-drug-trial-of-a-cannabis-painkiller-has-left-one-person-brain-dead

Drug companies always messing with things is a disgrace and is a lot of the time not needed for certain things, they just like to make things they can patent.