Jackasses in SWAT gear show up at mine to check for dirty water
"Others wonder if the actions of the agents put everyone at risk. When your family business involves collecting gold far from nowhere, unusual behavior can be taken as a sign someone might be trying to stage a robbery. How is a remote placer miner to know the people in the jackets saying POLICE really are police? Miners suggest it might have been better all around if officials had just shown up at the door -- as they used to do -- and said they wanted to check the water." [rdbrewer]