CAN'T GET TOO-----

[D&P-OR]

serious about just EVERYTHING here--need a little humor to go along with "the rest of it"----I think just about all people like to laugh at themselves from time to time.--At least I do-but then I'm a little wierd anyway! ----What's the funniest (or most odd) thing you ever had happen to you when you were out metal detecting?------For me, aside from being mistaken for everything from the garbage collector, electrician to weed eater operator, I think the most humorous thing was:-------I was M.D.ing a town park one day & there was a couple of early teen age boys (14-15 yrs.old) "rough houseing" with each other, the way kids do, just haveing a lot of fun & doing no harm to anyone.---I was detecting where they were playing & I happened to notice they had stopped "rassling".--I kind of looked at them out of the corner of my eye and seen that one of them was INTENTLY watching the other one while he was slowly swinging his right arm (as if metal detecting) with the most sullen, serious look on his face he could muster.--This went on for a grand total of about 5 seconds, then they just LAUGHED & took off running & wrestling with each other again, doin their thing.---I just "cracked up" (to myself).---I thought--MAN, do I REALLY look like that???---I thought I was lookin pretty pleasant!! I still chuckle to myself sometimes when I think about that one.--------Del

 

[fisher2]

prolly when i was out in a high weed feild a little bird about 5 inches long had a nest in the feild and scared me as i got about 5 inches away from it it flew up n started yelling at me needless to say i swung my shovel at it outa fear and it shut up but then i forgot about it and an hour later i did a replay but dropped the shovel and ran

 

[flash5153]

I was detecting a county park. A very large well mowed field that really never gets much use,the area I was in,,,, there is not a tree anywhere and it is wide open.I was the only one in the whole park until a car pulled up . A couple got out ,about 100-150 yds away, laid a blanket down and started going at it! A very beautiful girl BTW. Not only did I have a visual but the audio was working well too.
Did they see me??? Absolutely ,, the show was on and lasted about 45 minutes.Did I mention the visual,front row seats?They played about every position possible, I must say ,they were having more luck than me. I couldn't find nothing.By the time they left I felt I knew them pretty well and NO I did NOT join. But I did go home and SHOW my girlfriend what had happened. Sorry No pics

 

[BarberBill]

Early in my detecting career I hit a really solid signal while searching around an old house. Dug a few inches of dirt and uncovered a large, flat stone. The signal was right under the stone and as I have read several times that caches or other treasure are often disguised by some cover over the top of the hiding place, I began to get excited. All I found after I got the stone up was a rusty, old ring gear from an early car differential. Quite a let down after the anticipation, but part of the game.
LOL
BB

 

[Hombre]

Howdy Dell

This really happened to me many years ago, I had been using my new underwater detector that I bought in 2001. I was using my Tiger Shark in a local lake and was tearing up the pulltabs, zinc pennies and usual clad. I ended up the hunt with a couple of "nitros" but no gold. I had noticed this lady staring at me for quite a while, and as I was packing it up for the day, this 'lady' starts giving me the third degree. As I was stepping out of the lake she said " Your metal finder is zapping me and my kids". I go "what", she says " I want you to leave with that blasted contraption because it's giving me and my kids an electric shock ". I go "Lady this thing can't shock people, it's made to work in the water." I can't remember what else was said but I just left her standing there thinking she had won. I was tired and wanted no confrontation with this gal, so I just left. It's funny, but you always think of a great comeback after the discussion is over, and I'll leave it at that. My detecting buddies thought this story was funny too.

Randy

 

[norman maassey]

About 10 years ago right before Halloween I was hunting home yard in the older part of Abilene, Tx. A little Black boy about 5 or 6 came walking by. He slowed down a walked on by in a kind real slow half step until he even with me then moon walked a way while watch me. Ten minute or soon he came back carrying some stuff form a store. after give me a repeat of his passage earlier. Then 5 to 10 minutes he was back. He just sit down in the middle side walk and watched me. After a little while He walked up to me and asked me what I was doing. I told him about my machine and metal detecting. He listened tome with all EARS. Then after thinking about what I told him, He looks me eye to eye and asked me can the machine find DEAD PEOPLE. Being late Oct I guessed he thinking of Halloween. I told ed him Maybe if they were wearing rings or other metal. He the asked me if I would search his yard. I told I to ask a grown up first. He ran off down the street and came back with I guess his Grandmother ( real small older Black Lady.) She chewed me up one side and down the other. for tring to scarring him like that.


Over the next few months I ran in to him 4 or 5 time a each time he asked to search his yard.

 

[nwdetectorist]

Hi D&P-OR,

I know what you mean about not getting too serious with things, but sometimes...

So I was detecting in an older Portland, OR park, in a particularly dangerous inner city neighborhood back in 1996.
I was not having a lot of luck after almost 4 hours in the midday sun and was tired of having to watch over my shoulder for all the crackheads wandering the park.

Anyway, just as I am leaving the park, I hear this car smoking its tires and speeding away from the curb near where I am walking to get out of the park.
I also see 3 or 4 whack jobs running away from me in the same direction as the car.
So I kind of freeze up for a second, thinking WTF!

Then I realized what had happened
I had just come from around a group of trees/shrubbery and into view wearing my gray/black military fatiques with black hat and black military boots,
with my Black Widow headphones and long black electronic device (rifle maybe?, NO, actually my Whites XLT) slung over my shoulder.
Must have interrupted the deal. HEH HEH HEH

nwdetectorist


TOO MUCH DIRT, NOT ENUFF TIME!

 

[Sven]

Took my wife detecting in one of Buffalo's oldest famous Martin Luther King park, right in the middle of the Black neighborhood, well traveled by the police. Last time I was there was around 1980 and found Indian head pennies and barber dimes. 2005 took my wife to the same spot, early Sunday morning around 8am. Figured evryone would still be sleeping and be pretty safe. Not 15 minutes after we arrived things were active down the street at the corner about 200 feet away. Wife was getting scared, told her to detect, they won't bother you if your not paying them no mind. Besides I had some pretty big digging knives..All of a sudden a car pulls up to the corner, break nto the corner store and the alarm goes off and they keep hauling stuff out. Told my wife, ops will be here shortly, keep looking for barber dimes....she was freaking. We watched neighbors and others go running into the store and also hauling away stuff. A total free for all that lasted 10 minutes, when the police got there, everyone was one.
Looks like the store owner pulled up shortly after the cops. We kept detecting, about 15 minutes later he owner and cops left. We were never questioned or even bothered. Our car was parked about 50' from that store. Wife said let's go.......no barbers found that day. First time for my wife going into such a neighborhood.