Road Gold

[juju]

This has to be one of the oddest finds yet, as far as locations go. I was on my home for the night and as I rounded the corner my wife spots friends of ours in a car accident. I pull over and run back to make sure all is well. I find out the other car took off and the cops are on the way. So I offer to take photos of the damage. As I bend down to take a pic, I notice what looks like a gold ring smashed in the tar of the road. It took a bit of prying with the old pocket knife but out it came. It was kinda bent up a bit but looked good. The lady in the accident is married to one of my detecting buddies, and he was standing right there next to me. I show him and he has some choice words directed toward my luck. All in good humor of course. So I finish takin pics of the damage and another couple pulls up and says they followed the truck that caused the accident and took pics and called the cops. The driver was not found but was ID'd and has a record for drunk driving. No one was hurt and we got the car home ok. The real salt in the wound is they just made the final payment last month. I sure hope they're luck improves. I got most of the tar off the ring and it is clearly stamped 14k and weighs in at 1.5 grams. I also did quite a bit of work to get it close to round again. Luck in the hunt.

JuJu

 

[odave]

The car looks like it can be fixed , Hope they catch the guy ! Congrats on finding the Ring in the Road Cool


Dave

 

[surfin]

Bummer for your friend...............but the ring looks good

Surfin

 

[treasurefiend]

Bummer for your friend...............but the ring looks good

Surfin

Dito...

 

[toolman61]

I hope they got good insurance because the creep probably doesn't if he's a repeat offender! They make every one carry insurance that we can't afford and then some creep that shouldn't be driving comes along and makes it even higher! Wishing your friend the best of luck. And very nice eyeball find,Gold is gold is gold!! HH Tom

 

[Detectingfreak]

Very nice ring! Sorry about your friend and there car!

 

[Moonshadow]

Glad to hear your friends are okay! And WTG on the eyeball find in the road. Good job

HH,
Moon

 

[weasel606]

glad no one was hurt and bummer on the car ! great eyeball find congrats

 

[JP]

I'm sorry about your friend's accident. I hope they get the person that drove off.

Congrats about the ring, it's weird where treasure turns up sometimes.

Good luck.

 

[Mr_Mojo_Risin]

Cool ring and story. Hope your friends are alright and everything works out for them

 

[karib2517]

didnt turn out to bad,could of been worse. nice find.

 

[tymcmurray]

bad!..........nice!

 

[Indianhead Jones]

A nice eyeball find under bad circumstances!!

Larry

 

[jimb]

That is a cool find!

 

[CowboyKolo]

sounds to me like you found two treasures that night...the ring and the knowledge your friends were not hurt. Congrats on both