MORON ALERT !!!

[ron lord]

This is to the person that came down to Naples Fl. on Vacation and couldn't find anything and got mad and filled the water with PENNY. Would you want some one to do this to your beach, I think not. Don't be a MORON. Leave the beaches and water as clean as you found it.

 

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[bigscoop]

Regardless of HOW these pennies ended up in the saltwater, it's only a matter of a few months
before the edges of these pennies become razor-sharp hazards for an unsuspecting swimmer's foot.

I suspect the odds are better they get hit in the left eye by a blue Frisbee.

 

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[ivan salis]

the "newer" zinc type cents rapidly rot in a saltwater area ( BTW we do not have not pennies --pennies are british coins * ) older pre 82 copper cents rot much slower -- finding whole cents can be due to folks throwing or seeding them --- real jerks use 1/4 cut up zinc cents -- totally useless as well as dangerous to people because of the cut sharp edges * or BB'S which will fall out of sand scoops so you can't even clean them out hardly. --often this is done by "beach home owners" who do not want folks detecting on what they think of as " their beach" or by anti metal detectorist types or by VLF type machine owners who do not want PI type hunters in detecting in what they view as "their" hunting area....

 

[sponge]

I throw pennies down like breadcrumbs. Cause I'm always lost in the hunt. They get me back to my truck.

sponge using smoke signals.

 

[stoker_x1]

yes, two videos of people crushing beer cans when empty and dropping them in the water and one guy throwing his trash in the surf. The first video shows us how tourists help us find can slaw over the years.

The penny guy is the bad guy here and stopping him shows we care.

Let me make this as clear as possible. I know my beaches. Ron Lord started this thread and he knows our beaches. There are dozens of others who live here and they know our beaches. If you understand what I have said, then know that for over three months between all of us, we may have found a total of a hundred pennies. Our beaches are heavily hunted and are very clean. You can walk the length of a public beach and not hear any targets, clean, clean and very clean.

Last week, at my favorite spot, I dig over thirty pennies in maybe a fifty foot square and found three or four pennies in one scoop more than six times. I sampled areas up and down that beach and found the same thing. Enough, went to second beach and found the same thing. Our beaches were seeded with hundreds of pennies, beach after beach after beach. I find it odd that anyone would minimize what this moron has done or that anyone could condone what has happened.

For all of you who like digging pennies, come to Naples and fill your pockets. I doubt that you will, so that means that it is left up to the guys who work these beaches to clean up the mess.

If I can catch this guy on video, you can bet all the pennies you have ever seen that I will turn him in. Beach rangers know I work hard keeping the beach clean and they appreciate it.

 

[GatorBoy]

And please take no disrespect from me saying it seems like a big coincidence that we've had a west wind for several weeks during the last month and that is exactly what would move the sand from the shallow water on to the beach.. For you being on the gulf side uncovering things like pennies.
We have a lot more sand movement on a regular basis over here on the east side that kind of thing happens a lot here the fact that some of the pennies looked like they had been there awhile and some didn't tells me they didn't all get there at the same time its nothing for me to go after a little wind and find 40 or 50 pennies in one hunt.. 100 in a month is nothing.
Maybe try .. Focusing on low spots where you're finding the pennies you may find heavier objects like rings.
If you want to believe there's some crazy man loading every beach you go to with pennies all of a sudden then go ahead and believe that I think you just had a west wind

 

[SusanMN]

Had someone here in Minnesota that for several years was dropping hundreds of pop tabs and beaver tails into the lake I hunt. Didn't know if it was a swimmer or a hunter. But last year, I caught the SOB who was a water hunter I had seen before, as he dropped them along side his scoop, to dumb to know that if the water is crystal clear and completely still, you could see the tabs landed exactly as he dropped along side his scoop drag line. He was over a foot taller than me and maybe 150 pounds heavier, so I didn't outright accuse him. I just started hunting a couple of feet away from him and shared my opinion with him of what kind lowlife, bottom feeding scrum ball would drop tabs and beaver tails into a lake where kids could easily get cut and that it likely a criminal offense, maybe even a felony. He didn't say a word, but was getting visibly nervous as I kept talking and continued to hunt along side of him. I figured he still had pockets full and I wasn't going to give him a chance to dump any more. Once he left, which was pretty quick, I went back and picked up the nearly 200 tabs he had dumped and notified the park authorities when they came in duty.

So far the lake has been clean this year, so maybe I scared him off.

 

[lookindown]

And please take no disrespect from me saying it seems like a big coincidence that we've had a west wind for several weeks during the last month and that is exactly what would move the sand from the shallow water on to the beach.. For you being on the gulf side uncovering things like pennies.
We have a lot more sand movement on a regular basis over here on the east side that kind of thing happens a lot here the fact that some of the pennies looked like they had been there awhile and some didn't tells me they didn't all get there at the same time its nothing for me to go after a little wind and find 40 or 50 pennies in one hunt.. 100 in a month is nothing.
Maybe try .. Focusing on low spots where you're finding the pennies you may find heavier objects like rings.
If you want to believe there's some crazy man loading every beach you go to with pennies all of a sudden then go ahead and believe that I think you just had a west wind

Ive found two big penny patches on the West coast...one at Clearwater and the other at Anna Maria...both were after big storms with west winds.

 

[shawninNY]

Doesn't make any sense for a tourist to do it , if they are being dropped it's 1 of the locals!

 

[HARRASS]

Do what I've been doing for years...I throw them on the lawn in the back yard. I have a couple basic model detectors and I let the kids go to it. If the nickels and dimes are crusted they go into the mix. Kids don't care what they get as long as it is a coin... and they don't have to go far to find one.

 

[COTTON]

Never dug any penny's .Its the damn nickels that get me.lol

 

[Sir Gala Clad]

A penny here a penny there.
Excuse me a cent here a cent there.
It all adds up.
Just how rich do you think that one guy is to be able to seed all of the beaches at the density stated.
That guy is got to be richer than the richees (residents)living there.
Hm!

yes, two videos of people crushing beer cans when empty and dropping them in the water and one guy throwing his trash in the surf. The first video shows us how tourists help us find can slaw over the years.

The penny guy is the bad guy here and stopping him shows we care.

Let me make this as clear as possible. I know my beaches. Ron Lord started this thread and he knows our beaches. There are dozens of others who live here and they know our beaches. If you understand what I have said, then know that for over three months between all of us, we may have found a total of a hundred pennies. Our beaches are heavily hunted and are very clean. You can walk the length of a public beach and not hear any targets, clean, clean and very clean.

Last week, at my favorite spot, I dig over thirty pennies in maybe a fifty foot square and found three or four pennies in one scoop more than six times. I sampled areas up and down that beach and found the same thing. Enough, went to second beach and found the same thing. Our beaches were seeded with hundreds of pennies, beach after beach after beach. I find it odd that anyone would minimize what this moron has done or that anyone could condone what has happened.

For all of you who like digging pennies, come to Naples and fill your pockets. I doubt that you will, so that means that it is left up to the guys who work these beaches to clean up the mess.

If I can catch this guy on video, you can bet all the pennies you have ever seen that I will turn him in. Beach rangers know I work hard keeping the beach clean and they appreciate it.

 

[GatorBoy]

Big statement there... The last three months the three of them found a TOTAL of a hundred pennies.... Haha.... That's it That's nothing.

 

[sponge]

A penny here a penny there. 5 years of hear and there gets me new gear. Its like getting points for swing time. Them points add up. Yarrrrrrr

sponge using smoke signals.

 

[stoker_x1]

Hey Folks,

Strange things happen all the time at the beach. Tourist dump on our beaches all the time and we live with that expectation. Storms blow in and carry trash and sure, some pennies, in with the tide. Found a big anchor once after a big storm. Can slaw is a forever thing and surely pennies will show up too.

However, These large penny drops are only showing up in the center of the main public beaches where the beach is most congested. We have had mostly on shore winds with storms this summer. Not as many calm days like last year. Also, we have had some really good storms this year right out of the west and with extremely high tides, but no coin dumps showed up after the winds settled down.

First of all, I am handy capped, retired and go to the beach five days a week. Months have passed this summer when we might find 12 or 15 pennies on a beach along with the other coins like dimes quarters and nickels. At the end of the day you go home with 50 cents or a dollar and a half in change. That is a normal day. But, when you dig up 50 or more pennies and don't find the other normal other coins, well, something is going on.

I suffer physically after digging that many pennies and that is not fare to me and others like me. I wish this subject had not come up and this bad guy who is hurting all of the good guys out there would just come back and do it one more time, well that would give me a chance to video him and make him pay for what he is doing. Who knows, maybe he can't read and I will still get him.

Thanks for reading. Stoker

 

[bigscoop]

Today's low tide is/was +5, pretty rough out there, a lot more water volume remaining on the beach, stronger surf and currents, found targets in areas this morning that had no accessible targets in previous days. Sometimes it doesn't take much, at least as the naked eye sees it. With just this +5 low tide, if we had gotten any N or S wind to drive this additional volume of water across the beach instead of straight into it there would be targets showing up everywhere. Those targets are there, by the thousands, but they're laying just beyond our reach, take just a couple of inches off the top and suddenly we're hunting a couple of inches deeper and accessing layers of beach that beach hunters couldn't previously access. On top of this, this +5 is moving a lot of sand around beyond the waterline, rearranging the sand in the troughs and reshaping the waterline, some targets are going to get exposed and others are going to get buried even deeper. The beach is a living and breathing creature and it is always moving and changing shape, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

 

[bigscoop]

Stoker, I hear what you're saying, I really do, sometimes things just seem, "Unnatural." But over here on the east coast we often run into those penny clusters that you're talking about because we see a lot more general sand movement then you folks do over on the Gulf. After I moved down here I was constantly thinking someone was messing around but it simply wasn't the case at all. I can't tell you the number of times that I've hunted a trough one day and found nothing only to come back the next day and clean house, all of this with just one changing of the tide under moderate conditions. Right now, as you know, there is a lot of soft summer sand everywhere but it moves rather easily and it doesn't take much movement at all sometimes to expose a lot of targets. The fact that what you experienced took place on a very popular section of beach also screams of some minor sand movement that the naked eye just doesn't/can't recognize over such a large and vast area. Took me a couple of years of daily hunting and constant study before I even began to understand what was really happening. Over here these are things you simply have to learn because it's required due to the fact that it happens so frequently. It's crazy and a part of me hates my area beaches because of these frequent sand movements, but I also appreciate what these constantly changing beaches have taught me. Even when a section of beach looks the same it may not be and sometimes that's all it takes to go from zero targets to several targets. Very frustrating at times.

And let me caution you about making waves and pointing fingers at tourist dollars, the beach needs those tourist dollars but they don't need detectorist. Just some food for thought.

 

[GatorBoy]

The very thing that started this thread is actually what y'all should be happy about and with experience come to predict and look forward to.
Eventually you'll figure out how to read where targets with similar density and surface area presented to the water tend to collect...... Then....you can use where the pennies gather to gauge where you want to focus your time depending on what you are targeting.
These pennies didn't all just get there.
The sand moved from above most of them.. I gotta say this is funny

 

[GatorBoy]

You can have some of our sand if you want...that way you won't have so many targets..lol

 

[kyleeskastles]

Interesting thread, i havent got to beach hunt but thanks for some of the wisdom here. I dont know why you guys seem to have so much law trouble, land trouble. If anything YOU are the people that help clean up our beaches. Call it community service. All it takes is one look in our trash pockets or bags to see we aint lying

 

[sponge]

You can have some of our sand if you want...that way you won't have so many targets..lol

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I forgot what a cut looks like. Thanks for the pic. I just picked one of those hand scoops up. Used it first time yesterday. I like it, will use it when snorkeling. And yes I am learning target accumulation. A wiseman only get wise when time allows it.

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