nighthawkers caught on camera

[handyman [Alan}]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8346965.stm

hope they throw the blwddy book at them.

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

yeah  if they'd have caught  them,  perhaps they should have got the police involved to round them up,
 i bet that was a shock to them  lol lol,   i bet they don't go out again for a while hey ha ha ha,
 well done B.B.C,  get em some more times
Alan

[Terra (Mike)]

Nice to see that the BBC and English Heritage, did try and show us legal detectorists in a good light , i thought they went out of their way to mention the good work we do , as they could have just carried on about the nighthawkers and tarred us with the same brush.

[Bob]

I just saw this on the 9am News. Looked pretty hairy for the reporter as one of the nighthawkers charged at him with his shovel raised as if he was going to stave his head in!
I can't believe that they don't involve police in a piece like this when they know for certain a crime is being carried out. If they had then they would have been able to prosecute for trespassing, destroying a protected site and finally assault. Even though they did state that regular detectorists adhered to the rules this still paints a pretty poor picture of the hobby. Makes me damn angry!  Grr... 

[150aceboy]

Could have turned out nasty for the reporters, they did'nt now what type of people they were dealing with, great guts by bbc reporters, good on them.
These type of people give the detectorist a bad name, BBC should have involved the police while they were filming 
Ace

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

yeah  i know a guy from our club who got attacked by some  after looking into his car  that was on our clubsite.

[150aceboy]

Whats the world coming too Alan, spoiling our hobby mate,
Ace

[mickycoin "mick"]

hi watched it at 9am this morning, felt quite sick to be honest, and what other people  must think of us when they see us out and about. i hate to think. as said ealier they give the hobby a very  bad name, this time they have a recording of the one with the shovel, they should pass on video footage to police , and charge him with everything they possibly could, this "might" put of others .. it only needs one very stiff sentence to start with and a very heavy fine, and then seize every possible detector find in there property, night hawked or not and give it to local museum or similar

[beachboy (viv)]

well done the BBC,if only them informed the police because of the seriousness of their actions them might have had the use of a helicopter and they would have caught them.(viv)

[the sutt]

as you all said, well done to the BBC this nighthawking as got to be
stopped, it gives us a bad image lets hope the police see the film
and go and arrest them all it makes you mad.

[bymatt666 (byron)]

this progamme is being shown tonight(nov.9th) on BBC 1 SOUTH WEST at 7.30....it's called INSIDE OUT....it's on SKY.. channel 987 (i'm recording it)...for those without sky..you can get it on BBC iplayer....lets hope criminal convictions will come about due to the footage BBC have !...byron

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

Thanks Bryron  i don't think i can get it now with my sky not working properly i'll try though,

  I meant to say earlier  that the guy from our club was checking to see if he could see an up to date club card in the car,    we have them to show the farmers that it is an uptodate club member in there if he do come around,

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

nar  can't get the sky on,  but iv'e found the iplayer thing,  Something else is listed but i'll  look in in case
 Thanks Byron
 Alan

[colin]

nighthawkers should be named and shamed then locked up.

[ROMAN STEVE]

I will be watching that at 7.30 no wonder they are trying to put a ban on ralleys when you got d***ks like those running around at night they will give people like us a bad name