Well today's hunt was was interesting. I started at a well picked through tot park and a football field. Dug a lot of trash but not very much coin.. so I went to the beach. Saw a water spout about 4 miles out and found a turtle egg on the beach. Scanning along the edge of the water I hit a big signal and finally dug out the pictured shovel using my 2 foot walmart shovel. It was down about a foot, but the mxt with the 12" coil nailed it. What I will do with it I do not know. Hit a few coins and next stop was the Lions Club. Off in the woods was a abandoned homeless site in a group of trees so went to town. Moved the blankets and pillow and out of the way. Found all the clad in the picture less a few beach quarters. Got tired of bending over so left the remainder of the stash for another day. Quarters were coming out 2 at a time. Who says the homeless do not have two nickels to rub together? No shame here in robbing a abandoned homeless camp in the woods. The little 5.3 Eclipse did me good today, but it has more work to do in the woods.. Have a good day...
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Homeless Stash of Cache
- Thread starter EasySwing
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No way, not even with Larry and the General by my side.Nancy,
Believe it or not the little camp was about 10 feet from the road, so I had one eye out for vagrants and the other on the signals upon signals the eclipse was picking up. I need to hit some gold or a diamond at the beach to justify all this time I am spending md'ing rather than fixing puters. The waves should be up this weekend from the hurricane offshore. Marty
Believe it or not the little camp was about 10 feet from the road, so I had one eye out for vagrants and the other on the signals upon signals the eclipse was picking up. I need to hit some gold or a diamond at the beach to justify all this time I am spending md'ing rather than fixing puters. The waves should be up this weekend from the hurricane offshore. Marty
often be littered with needles and other items that call for caution. There are numerous homeless sites around Portland, Oregon but two old parks are particularly rewarding. As you noted, many of them are within a dozen feet of a road or main walkway or well-used park lawn. Many, however, are back off in the woods a good deal, and these two parks, in particular, are rather 'woodsy' like a lot of NW Oregon.
Some of the syringes are used for illegal purposes, but some are also used by homeless folks who are diabetic and need insulin. Out of laziness, like the rest of the debris we encounter, they can be tossed out so we need to use caution. I've come across a few sites through the years that have had a good number of razor blades, too. Still, this doesn't apply to all homeless sites, nor are they all productive .... but luck upon the right ones and you can keep busy for a while with coin recovery, just as you did.
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Some of the syringes are used for illegal purposes, but some are also used by homeless folks who are diabetic and need insulin. Out of laziness, like the rest of the debris we encounter, they can be tossed out so we need to use caution. I've come across a few sites through the years that have had a good number of razor blades, too. Still, this doesn't apply to all homeless sites, nor are they all productive .... but luck upon the right ones and you can keep busy for a while with coin recovery, just as you did.
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Monte
Thanks for that very important word of advice. I never thought of the needle subject, but that wisdom could save my life. I will let the lesche do the digging and not my hands. Caution is definitely the word of the day; I am going back sometime this week to clean out the rest of the stash.
Thanks again
Marty
Thanks for that very important word of advice. I never thought of the needle subject, but that wisdom could save my life. I will let the lesche do the digging and not my hands. Caution is definitely the word of the day; I am going back sometime this week to clean out the rest of the stash.
Thanks again
Marty
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just to add to monte's comment. back in the early ninties my family would participate in the annual Portland Oregon Rose Festival Hunt for a medallion. A treasure hunt for a three inch square piece of plastic with a medallion inside. one yr. the clues to where it may be led us to downtown portland where we started searching every rock and bush. we found hundreds of needles had been thrown into the bushes. these bushes were hedges around one of the parks. well we of course stopped beating the bushes. so yes it's very unsafe and not just in the woods. this also reminds me that in my so-called-safe park near my home i've found live ammo. hit these while they are buried and you could set one off. we enjoy a very good hobby but as the sarge used to say on Hill Street Blues," Be Safe Out There".
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just to add to monte's comment. back in the early ninties my family would participate in the annual Portland Oregon Rose Festival Hunt for a medallion. A treasure hunt for a three inch square piece of plastic with a medallion inside. one yr. the clues to where it may be led us to downtown portland where we started searching every rock and bush. we found hundreds of needles had been thrown into the bushes. these bushes were hedges around one of the parks. well we of course stopped beating the bushes. so yes it's very unsafe and not just in the woods. this also reminds me that in my so-called-safe park near my home i've found live ammo. hit these while they are buried and you could set one off. we enjoy a very good hobby but as the sarge used to say on Hill Street Blues," Be Safe Out There".
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