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Could be a sad day for detecting in australia
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<blockquote data-quote="Goldpick" data-source="post: 292495" data-attributes="member: 1695"><p>I found the topic and had a read through, the member did have everything confiscated, I'm guessing as evidence. Guess we will wait to see how things play out in court, though I think there was a bit naivetivity on the whole subject on where/how to dispose of detected munitions. Bit of a lesson to just leave any munitions in situ, and report them to police rather than taking such items home.</p><p></p><p>With regards to finding and posting jewellery pics, I'll leave that up to member's discretion on whether they continue to post pics, or indicate in their post that reasonable efforts were taken on returning the items to their owners (if possible in the first place). Obviously a grey areas exists on whether an item was abandoned or recently lost, pretty hard to for the authorities or detectorist to prove that a ring was found as a recent drop, or had been sitting in the soil/sand for a substantial period. Also have to take into account whether the original owner had already claimed under insurance, and is trying to double dip by also claiming the lost item as well (ie. Fraud). </p><p></p><p>For the record, the member in question has done jewellery recoveries in the past, so hopefully that will work in his favour.</p><p></p><p>Safest bet is just to hand any detected valuables to the police, then at least you have a record of the transaction, and then re-claim the items if no owners come forward after a few months.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goldpick, post: 292495, member: 1695"] I found the topic and had a read through, the member did have everything confiscated, I'm guessing as evidence. Guess we will wait to see how things play out in court, though I think there was a bit naivetivity on the whole subject on where/how to dispose of detected munitions. Bit of a lesson to just leave any munitions in situ, and report them to police rather than taking such items home. With regards to finding and posting jewellery pics, I'll leave that up to member's discretion on whether they continue to post pics, or indicate in their post that reasonable efforts were taken on returning the items to their owners (if possible in the first place). Obviously a grey areas exists on whether an item was abandoned or recently lost, pretty hard to for the authorities or detectorist to prove that a ring was found as a recent drop, or had been sitting in the soil/sand for a substantial period. Also have to take into account whether the original owner had already claimed under insurance, and is trying to double dip by also claiming the lost item as well (ie. Fraud). For the record, the member in question has done jewellery recoveries in the past, so hopefully that will work in his favour. Safest bet is just to hand any detected valuables to the police, then at least you have a record of the transaction, and then re-claim the items if no owners come forward after a few months. [/QUOTE]
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