dirtlooter
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- Jun 5, 2014
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- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus with 9"LF and 9" HF Coils and 600 Equinox with stock and 6" coils
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
I was metal detecting along a concrete path that was a jogging path in a small city park. I was staying withing ten feet of the path as I made my way along it. This elderly woman (close to ninety) suddenly appeared and began chewing me out for digging in the park. I looked up to her and calmly told her that the mayor (who I have known for forty years) had told me that it was okay as long as I filled my holes. She stammered for a minute but then pointed to an area thirty yards away or farther and told me that he property started right there and that I had better stay off of it. I assured her that I wouldn't get near her property and continued on. Less than a week later, the same lady managed to contact me needing help. I showed up at her house and she explained that she had lost a diamond ring and needed me to look for it.
She had gone to the next bigger town to the walmart and had lost it maybe there, maybe at her driveway or along the highway at a wide spot where she had stopped to check something in the back of the car. Well, no ring at the driveway so I went to every wide spot in the area that she had described and searched hard but no ring. I came back and told her that it wasn't there so it had to be in her house, her car or was lost in walmart. She gave me a very short thank you and shut the door, so I went on over to the park and hunted some more. A couple of weeks later, she had some major health problems and ended up in the nursing home. I just thought that it was ironic that after she had jumped down my throat, that she came to me needing help. Still wish that I could have found the ring but it is what it is.
She had gone to the next bigger town to the walmart and had lost it maybe there, maybe at her driveway or along the highway at a wide spot where she had stopped to check something in the back of the car. Well, no ring at the driveway so I went to every wide spot in the area that she had described and searched hard but no ring. I came back and told her that it wasn't there so it had to be in her house, her car or was lost in walmart. She gave me a very short thank you and shut the door, so I went on over to the park and hunted some more. A couple of weeks later, she had some major health problems and ended up in the nursing home. I just thought that it was ironic that after she had jumped down my throat, that she came to me needing help. Still wish that I could have found the ring but it is what it is.
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