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  1. Dec 15, 2008, 06:44 PM
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    Rewarding Craig's list lead

    I saw an ad in the lost and found section on Craig's list Saturday night. It was from a wife pleading for someone to find her husband's wedding ring. He had lost it working in the grassy are between the road and the sidewalk. She gave a pretty good description of where it was lost in the ad. So, I emailed her back trying to get as precise a location as possible. On Sunday, the husband responded with all the details. Monday was my hunting day. The area where the ring was lost was about an hour away. I saw my daughter off to the school bus and I headed straight there.

    I found the location easily enough and I started swinging. Now I would like to say that I found the ring on the first swing. However, that's not how it happened. It was more like the next to last swing. I had hunted for around an hour, trying to be as thorough as possible. I had picked up a surprising amount of coins. I was working my way towards my starting point when I got a signal. There under the coil sitting in the grass was the ring ! So I went to the car, put the gear away and sent a picture message of the ring to my wife. All the excitement made me pretty hungry, so I went to lunch. After lunch, I called the guy's wife and told her I found the ring. She met me and I returned her husband's ring. She was just a little happy to get the ring back. Not as happy as I was to get the reward.

    I made a stop on the way home and hunted an older baseball field. I didn't find much. 3 pennies and 1 quarter and bunches of pulltabs.

    The ring
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  3. Dec 15, 2008, 06:47 PM #2
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    Re: Rewarding Craig's list lead

    WTG Willie d. You gave all of us a good name!
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  4. Dec 15, 2008, 06:47 PM #3
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    Re: Rewarding Craig's list lead

    you did good. congrats on the find. It's the bestest time of the year to do something like that, not like any time of the year isn't, but you know what I mean.

    You Da Man.
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    Frank Zappa.
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  5. Dec 15, 2008, 06:49 PM #4
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    Great story.. Good for you! I bet she was pretty happy with ya.
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  6. Dec 15, 2008, 07:09 PM #5
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    Re: Rewarding Craig's list lead

    Great story and way to go finding the ring for them.

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  7. Dec 15, 2008, 07:18 PM #6
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    WTG willie d, hats off to you man. Congrats on the find and return
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  8. Dec 15, 2008, 07:30 PM
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    Re: Rewarding Craig's list lead

    Thanks guys.

    It was a thrill finding it. They're happy, I'm happy.

    Can't ask for more than that.
    Time is nothing, timing is everything.
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  9. Dec 15, 2008, 07:48 PM #8
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    Great story.
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  10. Dec 15, 2008, 07:52 PM #9
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    Good goin! Congrats!! Nice pile of trash also!!!
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  11. Dec 15, 2008, 08:05 PM #10
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    Right On! Way to go Bud!
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  12. Dec 15, 2008, 08:58 PM #11
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    Great job finding the ring!
    You made their day for sure!!!!!

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  13. Dec 15, 2008, 09:48 PM #12
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    Re: Rewarding Craig's list lead

    Great job finding the ring. You sure dug a bunch of junk. Looks like you worked to find that ring. Congrats on a successful hunt.

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  14. Dec 15, 2008, 09:52 PM #13
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    Great recovery and a reward to boot! Good going man!
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  15. Dec 15, 2008, 10:38 PM #14
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    I was hoping for a pic of the reward!
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  16. Dec 15, 2008, 11:24 PM #15
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    Good going man!!!
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  17. Dec 15, 2008, 11:26 PM #16
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    It's great that you did this for the owner!

    Congrats
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  18. Dec 16, 2008, 01:19 AM #17
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    WTG Man! Bet ya got the warm fuzzies and all too!

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  19. Dec 16, 2008, 02:03 AM #18
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    Re: Rewarding Craig's list lead

    The baseball field hunt sounds like the 1928 farm's bottom pasture that I hunted with JuJu. But anyways, Nice job on returning the ring!!!
    Anyone can make life interesting you just have to go out there and do things instead of sitting on your butt doing nothing. Second quote: Life is about trying new things not just standing around.
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  20. Dec 16, 2008, 03:54 AM #19
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    Re: Rewarding Craig's list lead

    good story


    and god bless you
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  21. Dec 16, 2008, 04:33 AM #20
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    WTG, GREAT CARMA.
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