Metal detectors update please

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
09/04/2009 17:57

Only one post about this from last year.



Does anybody have anymore info on if your allowed one or not.







Thanks



Tootie

TheSaints



Joined: 28/01/2009
Posts: 1369

Message Posted:
09/04/2009 18:27

would there be a chance of finding UXO?

batgirl


Joined: 04/02/2009
Posts: 676

Message Posted:
09/04/2009 18:49

I believe that they are still banned because the army do not allow there use for the usual reasons

glencoe


Joined: 01/02/2008
Posts: 256

Message Posted:
10/04/2009 11:45

I think you will find that the government do not allow their use, for a number of reasons including the fact that people were using them to find relics and icons and were not declaring them, the army also as stated above frown on them, there are also heavy fines for anyone caught using them.

Hope this helps

g

spangles


Joined: 22/10/2008
Posts: 411

Message Posted:
10/04/2009 11:54

We brought one out (since binned) and our Muhtar spotted it and told us that they were banned and said not to use it. Don't think anything has changed since then.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
10/04/2009 12:12

no i agree, not allowed.

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
10/04/2009 12:17

Maximum penalty caught using one is three years in nick.



Richard

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
10/04/2009 13:32

sometimes they seem to catch a few people who have aquired antiquities, i think it was last weeks paper showing the haul of what they found the culprits with.

maybe the weeks before??

there is one antiques place here where i have seen stuff with crosses carved on things ect, which i find in bad taste as they clearly belong to someone else.

if i called the owner 'kopek' you would probably remember who i mean,lol.

i was given a icon/cross which a turkish friend found, she was happy to give it to me as she wanted to return it to someone from the right religion.

being a non believer i will be passing it on to someone who is, as i am sure we would never find the owner.

its not valuable but it should be returned home are my feelings on it.