Tiny Tooth

[Blind.In.Texas]

Okay, as well as NOT being a coin collector, I am also not a beachcomber, fossil collector, or shark's tooth hunter, although, I have partaken of a little of each of them when the situation has warranted.

On this particular day I had taken my son to the beach for a cub scout outing. Of course the MDs went with us so that afterward we could, well, MD. Now we scanned the heck out of the beach and I mean a long way. We found nothing of any value other than its ability to fill space in the landfill. The rain came and washed the party away. 10 minutes later the rain was gone and MDing was ON!!

Now shortly before this the boy and I had been collecting the gravel at the waves' edge and pouring it into a sieve that I made from an oil filter (don't laugh. that thing is the bomb). We got bored because we weren't finding any teeth in the gravel. Bo-o-o-ring. We bailed and headed to the east end for a little beep-beep in the soft stuff where all the alcoholics hang out on weekends. You would have thought one would find great sums of wealth where all the drunken fools hang out. Well, think again. Apparently the fools spend all their clad in the bars and only drive out to the sand to puke and passout. Lovely, huh?

Well, the boy and I began to MD our way to the soft stuff from where we parked. About a 150 yards of hard sand on the way to the waves. About a 100 yards into the trek my MD starts to get spastic. Beeping all over the place, making tones that aren't within the range? What the !#@$? That's when the 3300 died. I'm walking along and sudddenly I feel this pain in my right big toe. Same foot that would soon see the breakage of it's smaller partner the pinky. I'm thinking I have just been stung by some sort of satanic hornet with battery acid for stingin' juice. I paused mometarily and my eyes kinda crossed up a bit, twisted up my face and said the "d" word......You know, "dang!"

Then it stopped and I thought. Hmmm. Ghost pains. I wasn't sure from what. Then I thought how stupid that sounded and it must be one of those dang box jellyfish. You know the ones from Australia. The kind that can kill you with one sting and now I'm thinking "crap, I'm gonna fall out right here in the dang sand and my kid can't even drive. Heck, he doesn't even know which way is north. Well, I start limping as if I just broke my toe or something and my kid is like "dad. why are you spazzing out?" I sat down in the sand and pulled off my shoe and found this buried into the callous on the end of my right big toe. When I first saw it I thought it was some sort of biting saltwater snail....

 

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[buscadero]

Re: Dedicated to rtde3...How I was bitten by a shark..or..This is the PITS

Will: that's what you get for gouging that Merc up that way! Hope you're OK!

HH Joe

 

[bagglaydee]

Re: Dedicated to rtde3...How I was bitten by a shark..or..This is the PITS

Ouch...I guess a dime digging into your big toe would hurt like hello!....LOL

Nice tooth, by the way!

At least you got to spend the day with your son and congrats on finding the shark's tooth, too!

HH.....Barb

 

[romeo-1]

Re: Dedicated to rtde3...How I was bitten by a shark..or..This is the PITS

Well, you went looking for shark's teeth and you found one...congrats!

 

[DCMatt]

I never knew dimes had teeth. Thanks for the warning. :P

DCMatt

 

[Night Stalker]

OUCH! Is that a digger scratch I see?​

Nice Find Regardless.... ​

HH/NS​

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[DigMO]

Glad I haven't run across any of those maneating mercury dimes!How funny!!!Love your sense of humor.Hope this doesn't have you laid up for awhile so you and the boy can go out and come up with more stories.Take care.

 

[Blind.In.Texas]

OUCH! Is that a digger scratch I see?​

Nice Find Regardless.... ​

HH/NS​

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uh..no...uh...it was..uhhh...the shark!!! yeah the shark bit it!!!! HONEST

It was my first silver coin and it was from my yard. I actually got the hit the night before, but, never could find it. The next night I was out digging that same spot. It happened to be in the side wall of my hole. When I widened the hole, then checked my pile, I found it and saw that I had scratched it.

Live and learn, right?

 

[Monty]

Is that the compact model tooth that gets better mileage? Reminds me of a song,"Oh tha' shark bites with his teeth dear and he shows 'em pearly white........" Old Mackey's back! Nothin' beats a day bonding with the boy and he'll remember it to you years from now I guarantee. Monty

 

[COUNTRY GIRL]

The news crew is on the way. Man bitten by shark on the beach, just about lost a toe over it. Recovery will be slow but should be back on the beach in a month or two.
Nice dime!

 

[SaintSea]

Ya know, Monty, I've always been amazed that a song about a serial killer has enjoyed such mass appeal over the decades.... I mean, it must have been recorded more than a thousand times! Catchy tune, tho....
Ruth

 

[Monty]

I always thought the song referred to a local tough or a gangster. Never really thought of it from the serial killer angle. My favorite version was by Bobby Darin who died way too young. Monty

 

[hollowpointred]

you got bit by the worlds smallest shark!

 

[Postalrevnant]

Good to hear you got to get out and have some fun with your son. And Yep the drunks pretty much don't lose much when they travel moneywise. It seems somehow they spend all the dough on the boose before they get there. I would say they might have some change from time to time, but all the hardcore drinkers I know don't have change because they just bummed you and anyone else that would listen. Once that magic mark is hit for the cost..off in the store/bar they go.

Oh that is the coolest. I never thought I would see someone smack a dime so hard as to knock out the tooth. Check that tooth close. Coming out of a dime it might be .925

Hope your toe gets better. Certainly glad it was not a #16 or #20 nail that impailed your toe.

Postalrevnant

 

[TreasureTales]

Amusing story. Amazing that your toe is a tooth detector/finder. Hope you never go looking for megaladon teeth -- they can be over 6 inches in size. One megaladon tooth found with your tooth-sniffing toe could prove to be fatal.

 

[Blind.In.Texas]

Good to hear you got to get out and have some fun with your son. And Yep the drunks pretty much don't lose much when they travel moneywise. It seems somehow they spend all the dough on the boose before they get there. I would say they might have some change from time to time, but all the hardcore drinkers I know don't have change because they just bummed you and anyone else that would listen. Once that magic mark is hit for the cost..off in the store/bar they go.

Oh that is the coolest. I never thought I would see someone smack a dime so hard as to knock out the tooth. Check that tooth close. Coming out of a dime it might be .925

Hope your toe gets better. Certainly glad it was not a #16 or #20 nail that impailed your toe.

Postalrevnant

You guys are cracking me up......You know what I like better than a good story? Of course ya don't ' cuz I haven't told ya. The amusing replies!! Now that stuff gets comical.


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