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Rhiannon R
Rhiannon Nov 1, 2015 17:23:13
Replying to nigelswift

Hmm. Ok I do take the point that that club would realistically find reportable things. But isn't it better to portray them as losers who don't find anything, as is.

Or, supposing there were to be reportable things in the programme and the writer slipped in a sentence about 'oh and we'll have to contact the FLO about this' - would that be enough? It's not a public education film. One can't pin the irresponsibility of detectoristss on a comedy writer.

The detectorists you endlessly have to deal with, they know what they should be doing. Anyone who gets into the hobby and buys a magazine or looks on a website, they KNOW what they should be doing ie reporting things, only looking in certain locations. If they don't actually do that, it's because they're a bunch of tossers, not because they 'didn't realise', not through lack of information being out there.

I don't think they'll find anything btw on the programme. I should bloody hope not at least. And if they did, they'd definitely go the right way on whatever moral dilemma of reporting it raised. They would do the right thing, because that's the heart of the programme really?

N nigelswift
nigelswift Nov 1, 2015 17:54:04
Replying to Rhiannon

Well PAS began as part of a generous social compact - laissez faire in exchange for information, a unique leap of faith that they'd play the game in return. But after 18 years PAS has finally admitted that 70% haven't kept to the deal, which means 3.8 million bundles of historical knowledge destroyed without trace, a moral crime against the country that makes the barrow diggers look like conservationists. So yes I think the 70% could very well be described as a bunch of thick, ungrateful tossers as you so succinctly (and obsessively) put it! ;)