WARNING WHEN DOOR KNOCKING
Ive been digging for around 20 years now and I have had my share of strange and rude people over the years, but what occurred on Friday to me takes the cake and should be a fair warning to all of you how dangerous and quickly a situation can become ugly. I was going around door knocking trying to get permissions for old homesites and the day was going pretty slow since people were mostly all still working but I stopped at a house where a woman around in her 60s was home, though she came to the door with a pistol. But we chatted about the site I was talking about with my maps and showed her my small case of items ive dug to show people what I am looking for, we also chatted about how we both went to the same school (its an old school), WW1 and WW2, other local history and that I collect bottles/dig for them and that I collect old local gambling memorabilia.
(Now to explain something with the gambling thing is I knew members of the Cleveland Syndicate and other gangsters and club owners, but BUT from a history stand point. I have never been associated with crime organizations)
But I left after leaving my business card with my name, phone number, address, and email on it with her and drove around knocking around before I finally gave up and went home, I received a call from her husband confirming I was there and that I talked to his wife, when I confirmed he yelled at me to not come back and stay away being completely uncommunicable and unreasonable to speak with, he went on to say I "harassed his wife and intimidated her". He followed it up with by accusing me that i was with the Mob and threatened to call the police. I did lose my temper with him and called him a very obscene word which he followed up with saying "he knew where I live" which IS a threat.
My father was angry at me for calling him said word and called him back explaining some stuff but again, like talking to a brick wall. My dad explained to this dope that these mobsters and gangsters have been dead for mostly 30 years now, he finally said that he doesnt want to hear from or see me again and hung up on my dad.
The police called a sometime later wanting the story and kinda made me out to be the bad guy even though what the police relayed to me was mostly lies such as that I Dug on their property and that I was trespassing and I would be charged if future problems arise.
Long story short you don't know what you are going to deal with when you go onto somebody's property too even knock on there door or how they are going to deal with you or treat you. BE VERY CAREFUL AND TREAT EACH PERMISSON AS A SITUATION