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I found this group on facebook and at first thought it was a wind up, but it's all too real. My blood is now boiling and have reported the group but would ask anybody who has a facebook account to do the same. if enough people report it on the grounds of promoting theft facebook may delete the group.
There are only 32 members but that is 32 too many and while it may not do any good in the great scheme of things it definitely won't do any harm.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7691613097

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Is there any evidence to suggest this is for real ?

Seems like a wind up to me, judging by the content of the posts.
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This is obviously a spoof group. 'John Hawker' who runs it is a false name. He (or she) invites members of legit Facebook detecting groups to join this group, thankfully virtually all those asked ignore the request. My hunch is that 'John Hawker' is somebody who is actually anti-detecting and is hoping that forming this group will get some real nighthawks onboard who will then post stuff that can be used as ammunition against our hobby.

I reported this group ages ago, it wasn't taken off then and I doubt if it will now. Probably the best thing Facebook members can to do is join the group "Metal detectorists against Nighthawks" here; http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/grou ... 5884461855

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With the best will in the world Deetektor, given the present media hype concerning nightkawking, whether its real or not is somewhat irrelevant. If this Group was promoting racism even for a "laugh" it would be deleted.

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not sure what the point of either group is tho? what do they aspire to achieve?

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OK look, this post was put up as a request not as a point of philosophical debate. You can either see the damaging effect that this group could have if sighted in the media or you cant.
As to “what do they aspire to achieve?” Hello!!!
They aspire to achieve having fun at the expense of others i.e. us.

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I think we can read too much into this sort of thing. It's a bunch of blokes having a
laugh. It's either a bunch of legit detectorists, or a group of anti-detectorists.

I remember a certain detectorist saying that he and a group of friends used to do this
sort of thing, on legit forums. They would all register, and then proceed to wind
everyone up

It's so un-subtle, as to be funny in a strange sort of way. I'm certainly not going to
lose any sleep over it.

The only objection I would have, is the language. :g51:

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