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Funny Things that Happen While Detecting

Funny answers to dumb ?'s

I got a few...My recent one was I was traveling to a scedualed place for hunting with my DFX all of a sudden a driver stops by my side in his car and asks. How much would I charge to do his yard and trim his grass? I look at him confused and say...What? I don't know what your talking about I don't have the equipment. Curious he says what is that? I say a metal detector I am a fortune finder. Oh sorry I thought that was a trimmer. I say the only thing I trim is the pocket income:D he smiles and says I'm sorry and leaves. On more than once they say fotograf my son ect. what a strange camera. gee whizz give me a break Yes I fotograf a coin a pull tab ect. here is the picture pointing at the screen and I pull out the goodies here is the pictures exposed:lol: When I don't want to be hasstled I hide in my inglish I 90% get away with it.When I ask for a hadicap chair for me for my coordination problem in the bus I usally get it when I sit down holding the fully installed detector at hand a person says if that is my cane.Huh!:?:What a weird world we live in:p Ralph
 
Anyone ever get attacked by red ants while detecting. I was kneeling down searching a plug i had just pulled and red ants crawled up my leg and into my shorts to a place where they shouldnt have been . Now the fun part begins, try getting them out when you are in the middle of a public park and you got your kids along... Needless to say, i had to go sit in the jeep to get them to stop biting me... :shock:
 
jkwidener said:
Anyone ever get attacked by red ants while detecting. I was kneeling down searching a plug i had just pulled and red ants crawled up my leg and into my shorts to a place where they shouldnt have been . Now the fun part begins, try getting them out when you are in the middle of a public park and you got your kids along... Needless to say, i had to go sit in the jeep to get them to stop biting me... :shock:
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Now that you relate that expiriance I must say...¡OWCH! Don't worry jkwidener I am close behind.I once tryed to rescue a semi adult female lizard the next thing you know I could not find where it went.After a few minutes I felt something crawl up my leg and enter into my twilight zone I said... Oh shoot! I ran to my little store shack lock my self in pull down my under cloth and the little devil jumped off and beat a hasty retreat toward the back window and vanish.What a riot Eh?:shock:
 
With adults that stop and ask me what I'm doing I usually say" Looking for weapons caches"or " I'm looking for Plutonium Nitrate deposits".They usually walk away.Some kids asked me what my detector was for and I told them"It gives worms lie detector tests" they also left.
 
I've had lots of kids come over to see what I was doing.

I remember a couple of things that come to mind, one day I was out in a park and just hit a nice target when this little dog comes over and watches me. As I'm digging the little dog decides to help dig. I had to laugh as the little dog and I was digging up a coin. Nice little Merc. The dog had a leash on and I could see the people running to get him. Must have gotten loose.

I was at the same park in the fall as I was detecting a park maintence guy was yelling at me to move to him. I thought I did something wrong and went over to him and just as I got there I heard a whooshing (sp) sound and all the sprinklers went off right where I was detecting. He told me that they were clearing the lines and didn't want me to get soaked. lol.
 
Ha, while I was a work in the office, the clerk pulled a desk door out and a mouse ran over her hand and she (about 6'2' 250#) jumped stright up on the desk. Now, that was funny. The mouse ran into the boss' office. We did not tell him. :-)
 
The beaches here in Jacksonville are constantly salted with pennies by idiots.
 
Well I was out at a park one afternoon sweeping and swinging away and had a gentleman aproach and ask me If I had a minute. I said sure what do you need?? He wanted to interview me for a Novel that he was writing. I said sure ask away. He interviewed me for about a half hour. It felt good to talk about mding with the man. He was happy and informed.

I have had many people approach me and ask what are you doing?or what are you looking for? I just tell them the truth. Im excercising and getting paid for it!!!!:lol:
 
Driving a considerable distance to detect, driving home because i forgot my battery pack, driving all the way back,put the batteries in, only to find battery pack was dead..!!!!!!!!@$%^&....was i pizzed.....:no:
 
Lizard prince said:
Now that you relate that expiriance I must say...¡OWCH! Don't worry jkwidener I am close behind.I once tryed to rescue a semi adult female lizard the next thing you know I could not find where it went.After a few minutes I felt something crawl up my leg and enter into my twilight zone I said... Oh shoot! I ran to my little store shack lock my self in pull down my under cloth and the little devil jumped off and beat a hasty retreat toward the back window and vanish.What a riot Eh?:shock:
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We have fire ants in Florida that you DON'T want in your pants...................
 
Last year a lost & found ad was posted in a local paper for a lost diamond wedding ring. I knew where the park was and proceeded to search. Just as I turned around I see a tribe of young kids charging at me. Before I knew it I was surrounded by 8 inquisitive young boys."How's that work Mr ?" "What did you find ?" "Did you find a treasure chest ?" "How deep does that go Mr ?".......and then the inevitable question came " Can we try it ?":shock:. Remembering that children don't mix well with expensive adult toys, In a feeble attempt to remove myself from the premises I quickly blurted out " Sorry kids but I have to go now" .
 
well, nothing really funny has happened to me while detecting, but one time, a cop car :shock: pulled into the parking lot of the school I was detecting! :wow: He then proceeded to give a wave, and turn around in the lot! :D
 
Perry said:
I just tell people I am cleaning the beach and show them all the junk.
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Haha that's a good one, maybe you could MD without permit on a beach and tell them that if they ask if i've any permit :lol:

on topic:
Nothing really fun have happened but some 5 year olds asked if i they could test it, and also asked if i could find pirate treasures and things like that.
 
I was digging today, and my dog decided to help. It was humorous. She has never been a "digger":no: I hope I did not turn her into one, I like my yard as-is:(
 
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bud212002 said:
I was digging today, and my dog decided to help. It was humorous. She has never been a "digger":no: I hope I did not turn her into one, I like my yard as-is:(
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This was a good thread, amusing but with a lot of helpful hints.
RickTee
 
Most of the time when I am detecting at Virginia Beach in the summer, I get tourist coming up to me and asking what I am looking for. When I tell them, they usually walk away removing the rings and jewelery.
I was once at a roped off swimming area in NC and a young lady approached me and asked what I was doing, I explaned that I was looking for coins and lost jewelery like the gold pendant with the name "Maria" and nice gold chain she was wearing around her neck. She just laughed and said I wouldn't ever find hers, then she went back to the group of other young guys and girls she was with. They were horseplaying around and the girls were on the sholders of the guys wrestling with each other. I just went on detecting and about an hour later I had that chain and pendant in my scoop. I went looking for the young lady to return it and see her expression, but she had already gone.
I also found 1 silver ring and 2 gold rings in the general area the were playing in.
I would take the necklace and pendant with me everytime I went to that swimming hole for the next several years, but I never saw the young lady again.
 
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