Handing them in to the police would probably be a good idea, although the Bobby I spoke to on the day completely ignored me when I told him that I'd been pulling bullets out all day.
My colleague suggested I chuck them in a fire and see what happens but I don't think I'll be taking that advice haha
There's been a lot a bad press for magnet fishers around this unfortunately. I've seen multiple articles claiming that magnet fishing is illegal in the UK (it isn't) and that they guy should have had permission from the land owner.
Maybe he strictly should have had permission, but no one seems to care when we're just pulling rubbish out. If landowners want to claim they own whatever is sat at the bottom of the river on their land, then they should also be responsible for the costs of cleaning up said river and properly managing it.
Personally I don't think I would have made my find this public, and quietly displayed it in my home. If the British Museum can just take stuff and display it then I can too.
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But alcohol is a heavily commercialised drug...
It got rejected when I suggested it as a name for a Corvette class light frigate, despite it sounding awesome
You love to see it. This is absolutely hilarious 😂
Pretty much exclusively F**kface.
My partner listens to a variety and I do enjoy the bits I hear of This Paranormal Life though.
It's safe to say that I'm in it for laughs and not much else.
I think it depends where you live, but it's definitely not common around here. It had been down there a long time so won't be linked to anything recent. The reality is that the police would probably just take it off me and not do anything with it, and to be honest I don't feel particularly inclined to help the police with any investigation at the moment since they refused to even look at the CCTV of my roof tent being stolen just over a week ago.
Thanks. All you really need to get started at a minimum is a magnet, a rope and some protective gloves. I use Magnetar for my magnets and I use their ropes too.
I've not lost a magnet yet but I have resorted to using my car to pull it out on two occasions now, and I bought a hand winch in case I ever can't pull it out and I can't get my car near. Both times I think the magnet was wedged rather than just magnetised to something, a good yank can overcome even the strongest fishing magnet.
Thanks! I'm looking forward to filling it up and perhaps adding labels to things I can identify and date
The plug from a telephone switchboard is a really good suggestion. One end of it moves in and out and it has what looks like a terminal for a wire in.
The outside of at least some of the casings is definitely brass judging from the colour, but some are so corroded I wouldn't be surprised if they were steel cased.