tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972497915033440413.post9158423094041544943..comments2024-03-20T18:15:41.858+00:00Comments on Looting Matters: Borsetshire metal-detecting search thwartedDavid Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13164794689385933318noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972497915033440413.post-74723749561730328832009-06-05T15:01:36.583+01:002009-06-05T15:01:36.583+01:00"should the PAS Finds Officer have been infor..."should the PAS Finds Officer have been informed?"<br /><br />I don't see why. After all, it's legal, innit? And PAS is only voluntary, isn't it? And the customers over in the States don't ask for evidence that PAS has been told, do they? And the landowner, who is the legal owner of the lot, will be getting 50% of his entitlement, which many don't since the customers over in the States don't trouble themselves to ask for his name and address either.<br /><br />So I'd say it was a fairly accurate portrayal of what often happens in the British countryside, albeit damaging on account of both the failure to mention PAS and the erroneous message to landowners that they too will profit from the exercise, when often they won't.<br /><br />All that's missing is a bit of dialogue from Eddie - "I'm only doing it for the love of history"... and perhaps a phone call from his dealer "Lord bless you for not living in a socialist, retentionist country".Marcus Preenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03603874627751387853noreply@blogger.com