Funny things that have happened to you while metal detecting

[SeabeeRon]

That is a great detecting story Tater! No trying to "one up" ya, but last summer on my main detecting beach I "eyeballed" a papermoney drop, scooped it and was suprised to a $50 bill in there!! Just kinda walked away and kept on on swinging!

 

[DWtexas]

I was hunting with a couple of buddies who are always good for more than a few laughs. We had been making great finds and decided to take a short break at a convenient store. One of the guys said he had to get something out of the back of the SUV and lingered there while we went in. Soon he joined us and quickly steered the conversation to a friendly wager saying he would get the first silver when we started again. The second guy was feeling pretty good about his odds and took the bet (the standard "one soft drink"). Sure enough, the guy making the wager was pulling coins like crazy and the second one was having terrible luck. Fortunately a silver coin was found. The first guy said, "See, I told you I would find one first!" Then he said, "Are you have trouble with your detector, you haven't dug much?" He then pulled the coin cover off of the second guys detector and removed a silver dime he had placed there. What makes this story funny to me is the memory of two older men chasing each other around with one telling the other just what was going to happen to him. Just to make nice, he ended up giving him the silver dime used in the dirty deed. For several trips after that, the second guy checked his coil cover before hunting.

 

[AlinMN]

After spending awhile cutting plugs and filling the holes back in without finding much in the back yard, I decided to go around the old house to the front yard. Spent some time there with no luck, so back to the back yard again and to my horror the owners dog had dug out every hole! I quess that wasn't really funny at the time, but now it makes me laugh!

 

[2Xplorations]

Busy bodies, Lookie Lous and Nosey noses

Fun stories all true.

I used to work for a civil engineer as a field tech. One of our functions was testing soil moisture and density. We used a big heavy bright yellow device called a Troxler (sp). It had a small amount of radioactive material in a probe and a primitive (1979 or 80) microprocessor that calculated things like in place moisture content and denisty reading so you could prep a site for a building foundation etc.

When the onlookers would see us using this and noticed the radioactive warnings and the little NRC badges we had to wear, they'd always ask how much radiation or how dangerous etc.

My typical response was to stop whatever I was doing and hold my hands out saying: stop dont come any closer unless you have a lead jockey strap on or youve already had all the kids you want!

You shouldve seen how people reacted in horror some would even back away slowly or scamper off as quickly as possible.

More recently I was hunting in an out of the way city park when some goober stopped his car came jogging over all excited and wanted to know what I was doing. I told him I was looking for needles and he just cocked his head and looked confused (guy was about 60) I said needles, you know hypodermics? the parks full of them! He still didnt believe me so I showed him the one I found earlier and had put in the bottom of a trash barrel inside a crushed paper cup. I thought the guy was going to faint! He went jogging back to his car.

Im sure y'all have similar stories, Id be interested in hearing them.

ooops just realized maybe not the best selection of forums maybe an admin will move to a more appropriate one

 

[ladydigger]

I was at the park last week and was on my knees probing a signal when a nice man came up and ask the standard question "finding anything". I said yes and there is something here now. He watched intently while I popped out a bottle cap, then said "I found 85 cents laying over there on the picnic table". We both laughed and he went on his way.

 

[HAGER1]

Wheres yor sign?

About two months ago 30U PLYMOUTH and myself were out in the woods next to the road mding at an old school.About 45 mins.later a man drove by slowly and stopped and asked,Did you guys lose something?,we told him we had lost some money and was looking for it.Keep in mind this school had been closed for over 60years.Where was his sign,I dont know.

 

[dpitt8]

figured its been awhile so hopefully there are new stories out there to be posted.

 

[JONO C]

i detect in some deep country in france and some of the olds still think i am looking for truffles and tell me i am looking in the wrong place! bless um

 

[TopPop]

Wed night I found a womans Dorna wrist watch and about 3 feet away an interesting can similar similar to an old film can can was marked merry widow 3
when i got home I showed my "treasures" to the wife about 10 minutes later she went to find me laughing hysterically Turns out she found the can on Ebay it was an old Condom container Got a pretty good idea how the womans watch ended up in the dirt 3 feet away

 

[floridabill]

This thread has been around so long I have another one . I was at the beach and I saw this woman from a distance hunting the wet sand and she appeared to be all bent over. I was out in the water and I was a ways away and I just new something didnt look right.

Well when I got close enough I could see she indeed was bent over hunting and as I left the water I told her you know if you took the short dive shaft off that ex cal. and put the right one on it would be little better on your back......

 

[dpitt8]

dang

just looked back at my original post and found this thread is over 2 years old. i'm sure there are lots more stories out there

 

[1cplunderer]

1852 Silver Tin Cans

I finally tacked down the owner of an old, and I mean old, farm house that I wanted to detect and got unlimited permission. My 1350 was new and I figured it would be a good test. Problem was that it started beeping and buzzing as soon as I put it to the ground. After digging about 2 dozen crushed cans I finally figured out someone had put the crushed cans in the front yard and covered them with 4 inches of dirt to stop an erosion problem. Sweating I sat down on the steps to rest and the detector went off again. This time it was an 1852 Silver dollar.

Haven't been back since but I sure got my fill of cans that day!

 

[LandStar2007]

Ahhhh Fuggit!!

I hope I am not offending anyone with this...Just thought it funny for you, but embarrassing for me...
Whenever I dig junk, the first words out of my mouth are "Ahhhh Fuggit!". So I had my Grandson with me one time at a beach and I kept digging pull tabs and screw caps...I kept saying it with every find, not realizing the grand kid was listening to everything I said...I decided to give up after a half hour of digging trash...I fell asleep in a lawn chair when my grandson pokes me in the arm and shows me a handful of pulltabs and screw caps and exclaims "Look at all the Fuggits I found Poppi!!!"...I felt so bad, but could not help smiling too...
Must learn to stop swearing like a pirate...


HH,

 

[SeabeeRon]

I hope I am not offending anyone with this...Just thought it funny for you, but embarrassing for me...
Whenever I dig junk, the first words out of my mouth are "Ahhhh Fuggit!". So I had my Grandson with me one time at a beach and I kept digging pull tabs and screw caps...I kept saying it with every find, not realizing the grand kid was listening to everything I said...I decided to give up after a half hour of digging trash...I fell asleep in a lawn chair when my grandson pokes me in the arm and shows me a handful of pulltabs and screw caps and exclaims "Look at all the Fuggits I found Poppi!!!"...I felt so bad, but could not help smiling too...
Must learn to stop swearing like a pirate...


HH,

Now that's funny!!...and being a grampa as well, so true!

 

[diggity dog]

I hope I am not offending anyone with this...Just thought it funny for you, but embarrassing for me...
Whenever I dig junk, the first words out of my mouth are "Ahhhh Fuggit!". So I had my Grandson with me one time at a beach and I kept digging pull tabs and screw caps...I kept saying it with every find, not realizing the grand kid was listening to everything I said...I decided to give up after a half hour of digging trash...I fell asleep in a lawn chair when my grandson pokes me in the arm and shows me a handful of pulltabs and screw caps and exclaims "Look at all the Fuggits I found Poppi!!!"...I felt so bad, but could not help smiling too...
Must learn to stop swearing like a pirate...


HH,

Thanks for the laugh! that was hilarious

 

[DeTekTor]

I have a two and a half year old daughter who likes digging in the dirt so I was trying to get her hooked early on the whole MDong thing. She was following me around as I detected in our yard and when I got a signal she was pretty excited, so I dug down and found a beer bottle cap. Of course I was disappointed but it had a picture of a polar bear on it so my daughter was pumped and she ran to her mom to show her the "kitty stamp" (not sure what that meant, it was a bear not a kitty, but I guess she's only 2...). Later we had another signal and I dug down and saw a penny lying in the bottom of the hole and I thought I would let her notice it and grab it out of the hole, sure enough she saw it and said, "oh, its a penny" and then promptly threw it over her shoulder and said "is there a kitty stamp?".
Sorry, i just like telling stories about my kids!!

Great story!

 

[Turf Digger]

Not a funny thing, but I just came back from a quick hunt and did the DUMBEST thing ever. I'm digging a hole, need to go a little deeper, I'm not wearing gloves, I put my left hand right near where my right hand is digging and I pull up real fast with the teeth side of the Lesche tool. Ripped my left hand up real good. Boy, I'll never underestimate that tool again!

 

[dpitt8]

I hope I am not offending anyone with this...Just thought it funny for you, but embarrassing for me...
Whenever I dig junk, the first words out of my mouth are "Ahhhh Fuggit!". So I had my Grandson with me one time at a beach and I kept digging pull tabs and screw caps...I kept saying it with every find, not realizing the grand kid was listening to everything I said...I decided to give up after a half hour of digging trash...I fell asleep in a lawn chair when my grandson pokes me in the arm and shows me a handful of pulltabs and screw caps and exclaims "Look at all the Fuggits I found Poppi!!!"...I felt so bad, but could not help smiling too...
Must learn to stop swearing like a pirate...


HH,

Thanks for the laugh. at least its better than swearing in front of the grandkid when digging junk up.

 

[kastlewood]

A few years back I went out into a sweetcorn patch adjacent to my son's house. I went there to pick some ears for our supper. A glance at the ground in front of me showed a piece of dirt that was very thin and very flat. I picked it up, rubbed some of the dirt off and low and behold it turned out to be a walking Liberty half dollar. It had some nicks on it from being plowed under many times but still not in too bad a shape. I gave it to my son's step-daughter and told her how I found it and that it was a rather rare coin. Next time I visited my son he told me that his step-daughter promptly spent it on a bottle of pop. AAAARRRRGGGG.

 

[NiagracountyNY]

About 4 years ago I was detecting a new spot in a woods a few miles from my home.It was fall and roughy in the 50s(temp).I was about a mile and a half back into the woods and had to get across a creek that was full from alot of rain.Well my not to bright self decided I could make it across by walking a tree that had fallen .All went well until about halfway across I relized this tree was way to far up in the air(about 9 feet above the water)and way to thin to walk on.Well the tree started to do this wobble back and forth...I tried to wobble with it and stay balanced..I must have looked funny falling 9 feet backwards into the water(it was about 4 foot deep)!I had my GTI 2500 with me at the time and a shovel.I tried to twist in the air and land on my feet or atleast my front side...I never got out of water so fast in my life!I went to the bottom ,detector and all and sprang back to the surface so fast that no water go into my machine amazingly!I sat on the bank a few minutes hoping no one saw me lol.After a long cold walk I relized My shovel was on the bottom still!I decided i didnt need that shovel anymore! To top it all off,When i was twisting in the air i threw my back out..I was laid up for 3 days!That was the Dumbest move ive made detecting SO FAR!