OK..what is the funniest thing that has happened to you this year while detecting..here our my 2>

[DFX-Gregg]

First before i got a cover for my detector in the winter I used to use a plastic bag as protection from the weather and had a happy dog run up and try to pee all over the plastic bag!

My second one a little more recently...I work midnights and hunt right after work in the morning. I have a routine of changing from the black shoes I wear at work to a pair of white gym shoes. Well here goes...i am detecting dig my first coin...a penny..no problem...now and dig my second coin a few minutes later...now i had my right foot forward first...no problem white gym shoe. OK now on my second dig something is wrong:blush: I have my left foot forward and my shoe is black! I have two different color shoes on!!! Here i am walking back to the car with two different color shoes on at 8am laughing at myself and two people looking at me like i am nuts! I love this hobby!

 

[Gila Marc]

I haven't done the shoe trick yet, but I think people (observers) are inherently curious about our hobby. I was out in our newest park early one morning, and I'm sure one of our local good-citizens decided that a guy out at 6:00 AM with a weird contraption in the park can't be up to any good, so.......a couple cops showed up. I was getting my stuff ready to be booted as they came walking up to me. The conversation went something like this:

Cop: Hi, finding anything?

Me: Nope, not much.

Cop: Hey, that's a Whites, isn't it?

Me: Yeah, an MXT.

Cop2: Can you really tell what's in the ground before you dig it up?

Me: Well, kinda...but not nearly like the guy on TV.

Cop: Did you see the news where a guy dug a 60-foot hole looking for gold? Can you find anything that deep?

Etc., etc., etc.

After about fifteen minutes of talking about metal detecting they just said "Good luck" and left. Didn't even ask me if I'm vandalizing anything or knocking off any convenience stores lately, or anything!

Another time a guy in a van from the local news station approached a friend and I in a park. He said he had come to do a story about a soccer team. He was obviously far more interested in what we were doing than the soccer team, since he sent someone over to tell the kids to wait. He spent about a half hour asking us questions, taking photos of us pretending to find coins, etc. As it turned out, we got our photos in the paper, but I never did see the soccer story!

Geeezzz...you just never know. Thank heaven most of the curiosity has been positive!

Marc

 

[DFX-Gregg]

n/t

 

[DavHut]

OK..what is the funniest thing that has happened to you this year while detecting...

Found an unopened six pack of BUD ICE while out tecting and drank them all, then fell asleep on a picnic table. Then I rolled off the table and whacked my head on the bench - hhile I didnt think it was such a hoot, I suppose it MIGHT have been funny to watch. But no, wait, that was last year...

This years funniest moment so far was when the mentally challenged lady asked:

"Are you finding any radiation with that thing?"
"Huh?" I said.
"Yeah, youre with the government and you're testing for dangerous levels of radiation, right? I know your kind."
"My kind? Uh, where did you get that idea?"
"Oh, ever since they built the nuclear plant down south of here and stole all them peoples homes to do it, there's been radiation eatin at our brains. How much have you found?"
"Well, I havent found any yet - just a few coins."
"You couldnt tell me anyway, since you work for 'em and all. Them lying SOB's have been killing us for years with their experiments and have really been messing with our heads. I hear voices, you know, because of them. My brains never been the same since they came to town."
"Uh, I have no doubt of it ma'am. Now maybe I better get back to work?"
"Yeah, but you just be careful, or they'll turn your brain inside out..."
"You mean like yours, right?"
"Exactly."

 

[DFX-Gregg]

Talk about paranoid! The beer story is funny too!