MD Tourist Learns Rules the Hardway

"A Hull (UK) man has spoken of his ordeal after he used a metal detector – and was promptly arrested by Greek authorities.

Paul Douglas, 43, of Edgeware Lane, east Hull, says his sunshine break on the holiday isle of Crete was ruined.

Mr Douglas was staying in the resort of Stalis with his wife Victoria, 38, and son Daniel, 14, son when he left them sleeping to hunt for Euro coins on a beach.

But police handcuffed him on Malia beach – a mecca for Brit holiday-makers – and took him to a nearby police station, where he was locked-up for 13 hours."

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