Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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I decided to have a nice, relaxing day detecting. Even if I didn't find much, it would just be pleasant to get out into the pasture and swing the old coil for a while. I got out of my truck, and started to detect this spot right alongside the road where I'd found about seven CW bullets. Its a quiet stretch of road, not much traffic. So when I hear a car coming, I looked up, and its a woman. She's driving very slowly, and she's looking intently at the house across from me, sitting back about 90 yards off the road. I thought it was odd the way she was looking at the house, and driving so slowly. Almost as if she was expecting something. She turned in the driveway right across from me, and drove to the house. I thought nothing more of it. I'm detecting along, and through my headphones, I thought I heard a scream. I pull off my headphones, and I don't hear anything for several seconds. My hearing's not so good anyway, and I figured I was just hearing things. I went back to detecting, and about 30 seconds later, I hear this horrendous crying. I pull off my headphones, and I can hear this lady across the street just BAWLING... I mean, crying like she just found her baby dead in the crib. I figured they were having an argument, or she caught him with some other woman. I yelled over there, but got no response. She wasn't crying for help, she was just wailing. I decided this wasn't good. I started to walk to Roberts house to use the phone to call the police. I sure wasn't going to walk up that driveway, and get a load of buckshot in my face from a domestic dispute. I got about half way to Robert's house, and I heard sirens coming. Six marked sheriff's cars and one plain car come ripping down the road going into the driveway. All this happened within six min. of her pulling into the driveway herself.
Well, I don't know all the details, but I do know the 31 year old guy over there hung himself, and she found him that way. Like I said, the way she was coming up the road, it was almost like he called her first. An ambulance came and took the body away. Within 3 1/2 hours, everyone had left, so it must have been classified as a suicide.
I stood around with Robert talking about the possibility of what went on across the street, when he tells me he had just bought a young bull and calf yesterday, and today they were no where to be found in his 16 acre pasture. He said the bull weighed 350 lbs and the calf about 200 lbs. He said he was going to get in his truck and ride around his pasture, see if he could find them. I was digging a target, heard a moo, looked up and there across the street in the woods was the little bull. I could also hear the calf mooing back in the woods. I ran to catch Robert riding his pickup truck, and finally got his attention, and hollered that his lost calves were across the road in the woods. To make a long story short, for the next 2 hours, Robert and I and some good Samaritans that stopped tried to catch this bull, and get him back in the pasture. I had gotten a rope out of my truck, and was pretty good with a lasso, but this bull would not let me get near him before he'd take off. I don't think I've run so much since basic training. We chased him up and down the road, through the woods and the thickets, through several people's yards, and then we'd start all over again. Finally he went way down the hill across a creek, and Robert just said forget it... he's 70 years old, and ran more than I did! He paid $650.00 for those calfs.
Then after all that, I finally got back to about an hour's worth of detecting. Managed to find one Civil War bullet, some kind of equipment hook, a flat button, and this old chisel-looking thing with a hollow handle that a wood handle could slip into. I'm only posting it because I believe it is Civil War related, and probably dropped from a maintenance wagon. It was about 10" deep, and while I was digging it, I thought it was a bayonet because it was long and slender.
And that's the way it is... April 6, 2006.
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Well, I don't know all the details, but I do know the 31 year old guy over there hung himself, and she found him that way. Like I said, the way she was coming up the road, it was almost like he called her first. An ambulance came and took the body away. Within 3 1/2 hours, everyone had left, so it must have been classified as a suicide.
I stood around with Robert talking about the possibility of what went on across the street, when he tells me he had just bought a young bull and calf yesterday, and today they were no where to be found in his 16 acre pasture. He said the bull weighed 350 lbs and the calf about 200 lbs. He said he was going to get in his truck and ride around his pasture, see if he could find them. I was digging a target, heard a moo, looked up and there across the street in the woods was the little bull. I could also hear the calf mooing back in the woods. I ran to catch Robert riding his pickup truck, and finally got his attention, and hollered that his lost calves were across the road in the woods. To make a long story short, for the next 2 hours, Robert and I and some good Samaritans that stopped tried to catch this bull, and get him back in the pasture. I had gotten a rope out of my truck, and was pretty good with a lasso, but this bull would not let me get near him before he'd take off. I don't think I've run so much since basic training. We chased him up and down the road, through the woods and the thickets, through several people's yards, and then we'd start all over again. Finally he went way down the hill across a creek, and Robert just said forget it... he's 70 years old, and ran more than I did! He paid $650.00 for those calfs.
Then after all that, I finally got back to about an hour's worth of detecting. Managed to find one Civil War bullet, some kind of equipment hook, a flat button, and this old chisel-looking thing with a hollow handle that a wood handle could slip into. I'm only posting it because I believe it is Civil War related, and probably dropped from a maintenance wagon. It was about 10" deep, and while I was digging it, I thought it was a bayonet because it was long and slender.
And that's the way it is... April 6, 2006.
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