Chris Crawford
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I find it kind of funny that I would walk right by change on the ground at a Walmart parking lot, but I'll get excited if I dig up a penny.
I find it kind of funny that I would walk right by change on the ground at a Walmart parking lot, but I'll get excited if I dig up a penny.
I find myself metal detecting every parking lot. Since I started metal detecting nothing gets left behind.
Yep! Those parking lot pennies are easy StoopNGrabs! Its funny how a guy starts valuing coins when a fellow has to hunt wild ones and dig them...The easy on the deck freebies are so sweet!
I've even started a modified Coinstar reject tray hunting hobby by simply raiding the Take a Penny trays at the stores!! Talk about easy money! I've got a whole Take a Penny tray Raid route established...! Why dink around hunting lost dirt pennies? Good gosh!
All you gotta do is sort of distract the clerk, so theres a bit of timing and skill involved! I ask them to give me a price check on a can of chewing tobacco or something where they gotta turn their back...I snatch the coins out of the tray, and then politely say "Thank you", and leave..
I dont want to give the sport a bad image, so I dress nice, am polite, and always leave a few pennies behind for seed money!.... If I ever get brave enough, I might go after the whole till one of these days! Or snatch the "Give to the Cripples" or "March of Dimes" countertop donation hoppers! That would be like a Bucketlist Hunt! Or maybe knock over a Salvation Army Kettle this year? The possibilities are so exciting! I suppose a guy could simply take a 5gal bucket, paint it red, get himself a bell, dress like Santa, and just go set up in a high traffic area? Thats probably OK...Then a guy wouldnt even have to bend over to pick up a parking lot penny or distract a clerk to snatch a tray! Just stand there and ring that bell for Old Glory! Ho Ho freakin Ho!
Don't forget the collection plate at church! A little motivation to hear the Good Word too.
It's all about the hunt.
I find it kind of funny that I would walk right by change on the ground at a Walmart parking lot, but I'll get excited if I dig up a penny.
Every Christmas at the same stoplight in Memphis there's a Santa and another guy in a Reindeer suit collecting change for Donner and Blitzens neuter fees. Santa rings a bell and the guy in the deer suit holds the sign and they get money too!!! Now that takes balls, (no pun intended)