arw40
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Raining at a good clip and 67 this morning my kinda conditions. Those that have saw my last several posts know that I have been wandering into the lions den ( ghetto ) to poach a meal. I picked another good size park in a really bad city. I know not too smart. No risk equals no reward. I figured its raining hard there may only be a passing tweaker or crackhead to contend with. I arrived at the park and couldnt believe what I was looking at. This is NO JOKE. Its raining like no tomorrow and in front of me is a full blown party being set up ( no tents ) paper table cloths that are soaked as well as all other party things. There were 4 questionable people sitting in the rain at the table as well as others in their cars. Now you have a vision of what im dealing with.
I started my hunt around the basketball area and am finding the usual clad, pull tabs, etc. As Im going along I hear the sound of a basketball. I look up and there is 3 of them playing hoop in the pouring rain. Im like this is unreal. I continue along and am digging a coin and look up and now theres a man about 5 feet from me. I take off my one headphone that I had on and he asks " how much one of those machines cost " ? Im thinking great, hes asking because he wants to know how much he can get for it after he robs me. I chatted with him a few minutes and he went on his way. Mind you now that I am probably the only white person in this section of town so all eyes are on me. I continued on for 2 hours in the pouring rain and made out pretty well. I got skunked not once but twice today digging targets that looked so good coming out of the dirt. The first was a larger heart shaped what I thought was a pendant but turned out to be an earring and the second was a ring that was about 6 inches down that looked new when I turned the plug. I didnt dare look at anything there in the park but was thinking I have two good targets out of this park.
Well, I got home and cleaned everything up. It was then that I discovered that both items were PLATED !! I also found a toe ring that I broke and took in $11.36 in clad for 2 hours so it wasnt a bust really. Oh yeah. I also found the top part to one of the hoodlums pot grinders. I thought it was a revolver speed loader at first in the dirt before I pulled it out. Pretty amusing day for what I thought was going to be very quiet. Hope all made out well today. HH !
I started my hunt around the basketball area and am finding the usual clad, pull tabs, etc. As Im going along I hear the sound of a basketball. I look up and there is 3 of them playing hoop in the pouring rain. Im like this is unreal. I continue along and am digging a coin and look up and now theres a man about 5 feet from me. I take off my one headphone that I had on and he asks " how much one of those machines cost " ? Im thinking great, hes asking because he wants to know how much he can get for it after he robs me. I chatted with him a few minutes and he went on his way. Mind you now that I am probably the only white person in this section of town so all eyes are on me. I continued on for 2 hours in the pouring rain and made out pretty well. I got skunked not once but twice today digging targets that looked so good coming out of the dirt. The first was a larger heart shaped what I thought was a pendant but turned out to be an earring and the second was a ring that was about 6 inches down that looked new when I turned the plug. I didnt dare look at anything there in the park but was thinking I have two good targets out of this park.
Well, I got home and cleaned everything up. It was then that I discovered that both items were PLATED !! I also found a toe ring that I broke and took in $11.36 in clad for 2 hours so it wasnt a bust really. Oh yeah. I also found the top part to one of the hoodlums pot grinders. I thought it was a revolver speed loader at first in the dirt before I pulled it out. Pretty amusing day for what I thought was going to be very quiet. Hope all made out well today. HH !
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