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I watched a show on the digging of Fort James in one of the Dakotas, and they referred to people looking for bottles as looters....digging bottles to sell. So I wonder, ever been called a looter by anyone?
 

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you are only a looter if you dig on public or private lands without permission.
Here in the east we call it trespassing and stealing if you want to get technical.
 

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I feel when permission is acquired from a property owner that term does not apply. I believe in Oregon though there are laws in place that remove property rights when it comes to digging. My one experience here in Missouri was from my attempts to get permission to dig an old Cival war era RR Hotel that had burned down. I have been trying for years to get said agreement. Anyway two diggers west of here came to town and dug it. They didn't ask they didn't get permission. So were they in the wrong? It was very upsetting to me, but it was not my property. Needless to say I watch for them and I have many law enforcement friends. Their loss as I have many properties to dig with permission. How about CANNIBALFROMHANNIBAL, Want to come dig?
 

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you are only a looter if you dig on public or private lands without permission.
I dug a 12 pack out of a snowbank on a state a highway and traded it for money later. I'm sure there was a war or civil unrest somewhere so I will call myself a looter. [:D]
No one else ever called me that though.
 

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You're only a looter when you discover those valuable bottles that everyone all of the sudden cares about. And when you trespass, of course.
 

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I think you could justify that as litter cleanup. Eric.


I'm not judging all you looters, just helping the OP with the definition.[:D]
 

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ORIGINAL: GuntherHess

you are only a looter if you dig on public or private lands without permission.
Here in the east we call it trespassing and stealing if you want to get technical.


YEP
 

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thanks GH, but I`m a native speaker.
 

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