I had come off a local beach not too long ago and a thuggish guy and his, well.. hard to describe politely, girlfriend came up to me and asked if I found any treasure.. I said I had found a gold ring and silver ring (gold in Florida months ago and silver at another beach last month).. and she exclaims "OH THANK YOU! you found my lost jewelry! THANK YOU, now give them to me.. "
NO !!!!..
I have a shovel in hand and basically no fear of anyone at this point in my life so why not.. "can you describe it?" -yeah it looks just like the ones you found!! (never showed them anything) "Can you tell me what name is inside the rings?" -Yeah! my name IS inside the rings.. show me and I can show you what my name is..
Now there is one thing I reaaaally hate more than anything else in this world, more than stupid people, is someone telling me that it's raining while they're pissing on my pant leg..
Knowing 'thug lad' isn't going to do much other than posture up (too many people within view and not the brightest tulip in the batch) I told them that my camera was recording them and live fed to my home for a youtube showing (what camera?!) .. and poof, I've never seen anyone cover their faces so quickly as they scurried off.. "No, wait.. you didn't tell me your name! HEY, come back.. this MIGHT be your ring.. hey.. really? please?"
I followed them out to the parking lot as they tried to drive off before I could "record" the license plate on the car..
I honestly didn't think stupid could actually breathe and drive cars at the same time.. Oddly enough, a gent following up behind me on the board walk to the parking lot asked what was that all about etc.. turns out he's a local constabulary and was interested in knowing more about the couple.. lol.. Dang shame I didn't have a real camera with me.. would have been real funny..
Other than THAT silly incident, I've never encountered anything more dangerous than a slobbering dog licking my face while on my knees digging a hole.. Canada, eh? Gotta love it up ehere