Funny things that have happened to you while metal detecting

[dpitt8]

Not sure if this has been started in the past but I am curious for tales of funny things that have happened in the past while you have been out MDing. Thanks for humoring me.

 

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[Tank69]

do we mention detecting for 25 minutes before realizing the head phones where unplugged but not outa the jack

or testing the battery an replacing it with 5 different ones before realizing the head phones adapter is still plugged in when the head phones werent


ya ya ok I'm guilty I've done em both

 

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[NGE]

this happened way back long time ago... It was funny to me, but not to my friend . back in 1971 my friend and I used to go to upstate N.Y. to hunt his old stomping grounds, where he grew up. I think we were in Binghamton, N.Y. We had gotten permission from an I.B.M. employee that owned some property in the outback that happened to have a house on it that was built in the early 1800's. We asked him if we could check out the inside, he said sure! Just be careful, because the floor was falling into the cellar area. Well, I was rummaging the upstairs, my friend went down some steps to the cellar, he found a bunch of old canning jars with labels that said; peches, put up july 14, '99. Well it was starting to snow and I hollered to my friend that we'd better leave before we got stuck in 12 feet of snow . When all of a sudden I heard him screaming, and running around down there, making all kinds of racket, he comes a running right past me and out the door, so I followed him, and out behind me came a very sleepy, but angry bear. We made it to the truck with seconds to spare . we waited till the bear left, then went around back of the house, where we found the cellar door ajar, the bear crawled through that opening and was in the midst of getting down for a long winters nap. My friend said he saw a pile of old clothing laying in the back of the cellar and kicked it a few times, till it kicked back. BTW, we did go back and get all those Atlas E-Z Seal jars, when we got home to Mich. we opened and poured the contents on the grass behind my garage, the next day all the grass was dead.........NGE

 

[steve71]

well i wasent medal detecting but i seen a dog holding down a cat trying to get some -ussy.

 

[steve71]

this happened way back long time ago... It was funny to me, but not to my friend . back in 1971 my friend and I used to go to upstate N.Y. to hunt his old stomping grounds, where he grew up. I think we were in Binghamton, N.Y. We had gotten permission from an I.B.M. employee that owned some property in the outback that happened to have a house on it that was built in the early 1800's. We asked him if we could check out the inside, he said sure! Just be careful, because the floor was falling into the cellar area. Well, I was rummaging the upstairs, my friend went down some steps to the cellar, he found a bunch of old canning jars with labels that said; peches, put up july 14, '99. Well it was starting to snow and I hollered to my friend that we'd better leave before we got stuck in 12 feet of snow . When all of a sudden I heard him screaming, and running around down there, making all kinds of racket, he comes a running right past me and out the door, so I followed him, and out behind me came a very sleepy, but angry bear. We made it to the truck with seconds to spare . we waited till the bear left, then went around back of the house, where we found the cellar door ajar, the bear crawled through that opening and was in the midst of getting down for a long winters nap. My friend said he saw a pile of old clothing laying in the back of the cellar and kicked it a few times, till it kicked back. BTW, we did go back and get all those Atlas E-Z Seal jars, when we got home to Mich. we opened and poured the contents on the grass behind my garage, the next day all the grass was dead.........NGE

well you know if the bear didnt break them to eat them must have been pretty bad.1971 i was still peeing on myself,thats pretty funny

 

[scrubber]

do we mention detecting for 25 minutes before realizing the head phones where unplugged but not outa the jack

or testing the battery an replacing it with 5 different ones before realizing the head phones adapter is still plugged in when the head phones werent


ya ya ok I'm guilty I've done em both

Don't feel alone, Tank. I detected one day for a while before realizing I hadn't even turned the thing on.

 

[dpitt8]

anyone else?

 

[thrillathahunt]

Ok, my daughter who is 20 now and away in college and I still chuckle about this after nearly 10 years! We were detecting a large playground at a school next to a baseball field where little leagers were practicing. Their practice ended and an older teenage boy was accompanying one of the little leagers off the field. As they passed by us we could hear the older boy say to the younger one, "See, if you don't go to college when you grow up you'll end up doing THAT for a living!"

 

[dpitt8]

Ok, my daughter who is 20 now and away in college and I still chuckle about this after nearly 10 years! We were detecting a large playground at a school next to a baseball field where little leagers were practicing. Their practice ended and an older teenage boy was accompanying one of the little leagers off the field. As they passed by us we could hear the older boy say to the younger one, "See, if you don't go to college when you grow up you'll end up doing THAT for a living!"

thanks I needed that

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[rjw4law]

I had the cops called on me in Georgia. It was reported a man with a cane was falling down in the park and getting back up....Just me digging...the cops thought is was funny.

 

[Tank69]

now thats funny rjw4law

 

[Jimmy(PA)]

When I was younger I lost track of time and was out 2 or 3 miles in the woods detecting when the sun went down just after seeing the Blair Witch Project so I started to panic then I seen one of those things in the tree that they kept seeing in the movie so I grabbed my bike and took off running and carrying it since I cant ride it in the woods its too dense just then I fell flat on my face with my detector and bike, got back up and kept running as fast as I could for the next 2 miles till I hit the road. I dont know if it was the funniest but it scared the hell out of me, im sure if anyone seen me they thought I was nuts. I lost a few coins, my pepper spray, and probe in the run but no witches got me that night thank God. I was banged up pretty bad from falling and running through the thorn bushes and tree's but I felt no pain till I got home. I still refuse to detecting in the woods anytime close to night fall. It still scares me to think about it haha.

 

[hikeinmts]

Early 80's, still in the Army, and was going from village to village here in S. Korea, hunting the common areas where Korean
folks would sit, fan thenselves on a hot summer day, etc. Went into a village about 6:00 a.m. Was calmly walking down one
of the trails into the village when I met an old Korean grandma. A white man, in her village early in the morning, was the last
thing she expected to see. She let out a bloodcurdling cry, and went racing back into the village. Didn't scare me, but I decided against hunting that village that morning, as I didn't know what story she would tell about the "monster that was coming
into the village."

 

[mick56]

I was md'ing in a park, and a woman and her two young boys were riding bikes. As they were going past me, the younger one, probably about 8, asked me what I was looking for. I said I was looking for any coins. He then asked me if I was poor, I said "yeah, I'm poor." He said, "If your're so poor, how did you afford that metal detector?" The mother and me burst out laughing. I coudn't believe the little kid even knew what a metal detector was.

 

[wrecker]

I was detecting on a beach and two little boys came to ask me the usual questions, what I was doing etc. When I explained and demonstrated it with a coin the elder said: "Hey- my brother here swallowed a 20 cent coin this morning, do you think you can find it?" Well, I don't know, let's see. And sure enough the detector beeped when I held the coil close to his stomach. They found that too cool and ran to tell their mom. Later they came back with another friend and I had to show it to him too, than another one... I don't remember how many times alltogether, 4 or 5 times. It was funny to see how exited they were and kidding about how he has to wait for 1 or 2 days until he might be able to retrieve his coin and what efforts to use to find it, what he would spend it for...

 

[Coins4Cheese]

Not much excieting has happened to me yet while MD. But, people come up to me a lot and ask me what I'm doing and what that "thing" I'm using is.

 

[mcdpoor]

I was surrounded by young kids and their parents and I thought I'd try a little public relations for the hobby and offered the next find to be for that child in order of age(yougest first). Wouldn't you know it the 3rd kid out I dug a ring.. He saw it and was excited.. It was a nice silver ring and of course I let him keep it.. I always wander what happened to that ring and if the boy remembers and is a Treasure hunter today.. This happened several years ago.. P.S. Mostly pennies and dimes for the other children..

 

[teddy]

once had an officer ask me if i was spearing frogs in the park.
teddy

 

[vayank54]

This didn't exactly happen while digging but I had broken the ball part of the joint in my right ankle into 4 pieces. Several days after I got out of the hospital I couldn't stand it I had to get out of the house. I threw my right leg over the hump in the car's floor board and drove using my left foot to a spot that was being cleared. I had aluminum crutches and a cast up to my knee. I would take a step or two and swing my machine and take another step and swing and so on. when I got a signal I would use one crutch to lower myself to the ground and the use it to raise myself back up. I went digging several times before I had to go back to the doctors. My cast was dirty and my crutches were dirty and beat up. The doctor never said a thing about it but the look on his face was priceless. I think he was afraid to ask. By the way has any one else ever been asked if it's harder to dig with your arm in a sling or your leg in a cast

 

[NGE]

Yes.........Me. I had arthroscopic surgery on my right knee, many moons ago. I had one of those cast-like leg braces on, a pair of crutches, and the hankerin' for huntin'. I bought a handi-capper's long reach grabber and went to my local tot-lot (it was all sand) I would swing machine with right hand, scrape sand with one of my crutches, and retrieve target with the grabber. Which I would put into my apron that I had attached to my left crutch. Never had to get down..........NGE

 

[vayank54]

Yes.........Me. I had arthroscopic surgery on my right knee, many moons ago. I had one of those cast-like leg braces on, a pair of crutches, and the hankerin' for huntin'. I bought a handi-capper's long reach grabber and went to my local tot-lot (it was all sand) I would swing machine with right hand, scrape sand with one of my crutches, and retrieve target with the grabber. Which I would put into my apron that I had attached to my left crutch. Never had to get down..........NGE

ha ha I thought I was the only one who would try to dig on crutches.