Friday, December 01, 2006

New Public Enemy Number One: Metal Detectors

I know. It sounds crazy, but the Travis County Commissioners Court has banned all metal detecting in county parks. Why, you ask? Because they may disturb antiquities. If these alleged antiquities are so damned important, why isn't the county actively looking for them? Just to make this clear, they aren't and they never have made any effort to do so. Really, the most valuable thing you could find in a park around here would be an arrowhead or dinosaur bones. Metal detectors don't even register that. These hobbyists are out there with their hand spades digging up lost change for the most part. It isn't like they are digging up the parks with a backhoe or anything. I say if the county is worried about money, make them buy a permit and fill up the hole they dig. What a waste of taxpayers money to spend hours discussing this issue when Travis county has real problems like an overburdened EMS and stupid toll roads ruining people's ranches. Get a life and get to some real work, assholes.

5 comments:

mad said...

Yeah, that's pretty friggin dumb. I suppose bingo is against the law there too.

pineapple said...

Hell, no! You can play Bingo at all night bingo halls and at churches. Then there are bars that have chicken shit bingo...

Winston said...

I think they're afraid some lowly citizen will find a treasure chest full of Spanish doubloons - gold, no less. I can relate to your frustration. I am amazed by how backward this entire state is, in many, many ways.

Anonymous said...

I sure hope other Texas counties don't follow the lead of Travis County. I wonder if the county realizes how much trash us legitimate hobbyists pick up while searching the beaches and parks !!!

pineapple said...

dbythelake: I hear ya. they are actively not earning their salary when they do dumb things like that.