Kut2TheChase
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So I look on an old map and find out there used to be a train station from the 1800's, closed in 1946, in the town I grew up in that I remember as a small triangle patch of trees and overgrowth. Great! A place to detect.
So I get there and right away, my battery is dead so I decide to just check out the site visually and there's a couple of badly worn and corroded pennies just on the surface by the biggest oaks. I go alittle farther into the wooded area and Im digging around an old tree and I hear a russle in the bushes on my right and what do I see?
A PitBull coming right at me!
Talk about going from 0 to 90 in .23 seconds! I jump up with my new shiny, sharp digger and take off around the tree and those nature channels sure help 'cause I remembered that if I run, the dog will see me as fleeing prey and chase, so I stop dead and turn around to face this beast with digger in hand and tell it, "I WILL stab you with this"!
The dog stops short and it's a classic stand off in the middle of a huge city, in a small wooded patch all of 30 feet, noone can see me, just me, the pit and nature and Im thinking "this is it", of all the places, Im going to get into a fight to the death in the neighborhood park. I am shaking and we are looking at each other eye to eye. Im trying my best not to look scared and I hear off in the distance.."Jamie!, bad dog, where are you?"
THANK GOD the dogs ears perked back and he seemed to come to his senses and realized he was doing something wrong. He sniffed the ground and walk a circle around me and ran off!
Shaken, I popped outta the woods and left with a few pennies, a plastic button and all of my body parts intact.
This hobby can sure be an adventure. I think Im going to look into some kind of dog repellent or pepperspray the next time I go into any woods after some treasure.
So I get there and right away, my battery is dead so I decide to just check out the site visually and there's a couple of badly worn and corroded pennies just on the surface by the biggest oaks. I go alittle farther into the wooded area and Im digging around an old tree and I hear a russle in the bushes on my right and what do I see?
A PitBull coming right at me!
Talk about going from 0 to 90 in .23 seconds! I jump up with my new shiny, sharp digger and take off around the tree and those nature channels sure help 'cause I remembered that if I run, the dog will see me as fleeing prey and chase, so I stop dead and turn around to face this beast with digger in hand and tell it, "I WILL stab you with this"!The dog stops short and it's a classic stand off in the middle of a huge city, in a small wooded patch all of 30 feet, noone can see me, just me, the pit and nature and Im thinking "this is it", of all the places, Im going to get into a fight to the death in the neighborhood park. I am shaking and we are looking at each other eye to eye. Im trying my best not to look scared and I hear off in the distance.."Jamie!, bad dog, where are you?"
THANK GOD the dogs ears perked back and he seemed to come to his senses and realized he was doing something wrong. He sniffed the ground and walk a circle around me and ran off!
Shaken, I popped outta the woods and left with a few pennies, a plastic button and all of my body parts intact.
This hobby can sure be an adventure. I think Im going to look into some kind of dog repellent or pepperspray the next time I go into any woods after some treasure.
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....Doug
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another friend has rotweillers, has ALWAYS had rotweillers and I have never even seen them bark, i have only known the last two but he said he had never had a mean one. know a farmer with 2 pitbulls, nicest dogs you ever met...they get there bad names from BAD owners in most cases, i am not saying some of them cant be just bad dogs with bad blood but in most cases it is the OWNER, there are bad and aggresive dogs in EVERY breed.
