ReidMan
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- Jul 16, 2008
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- Detector(s) used
- F75 main, Infinium water, TDI red dirt, 1266x if I feel like digging iron.
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Finds at the beach have been slow for me this year with rings becoming scarce as people are even wising up and leaving their rings at home or the numbers at the beach just not being what they used to.
For me the only rings I have found this year were the plated dime store variety.
Don’t get me wrong I love getting up at 530 and hitting the beach even if I don’t find anything worthwhile.
Wednesday morning started out as a beautiful day with little wave action nice temps and no jellyfish to speak of, my first good find of the day looked like a real keeper a nice class ring that looked to be gold, a little later another small ring with diamonds that was plated but still a 2 ring day aint bad at all.
After getting back to the truck with Bill he saw the 10k inside with what appeared to be a name, woohoo first real gold of the year for me.
After getting it home and checking it out I could see one name inside, It appeared to be a first name with no last, well I had the school mascot and year she would graduate 2017 and it matched a local school, school around here hasn’t started yet but thought I would give it a shot.
I gave them a call and told the lady that answered I had a first name and I had found a class ring if there was some way they could look and see if they had someone there with that name and give her my name and number to call me. I was met with we don’t give out that information, I can’t take your number it’s against school policy you can leave ring in the lost and found.
Well that didn’t really help at all and I wasn’t going to just leave the ring without even knowing if the girl ever got it back.
After the wife got home first thing she noticed was the full name was case into the outside of ring! Dang I knew I was blind but how I didn’t see it makes me check my glasses again.
The detective in her was awakened and off she went on an internet search, with full name in hand year she was to graduate it didn’t take her long to find a face book page.
The name inside was a nic name and it matched the girl online.
Trouble now was girl didn’t except and messages from people she didn’t know.
This didn’t stop my wife, she proceeded to message anyone that had posted on this girls Facebook page that would let her and tell them to contact us that we had found the girls high school ring.
Well it didn’t take too long before she had contact, the young girl’s mother got a message called us even texted a picture with her daughter wearing the ring. She couldn’t believe that someone had found the ring and was willing to return it. She called her daughter who was in tears so upset she had lost this expensive ring that meant so much to her.
Well I told her to call me the next day so we could plan on a meeting. The mother called about midday to say her daughter was still out of town but they were in my area and if she could come by, I said sure and she was on the way.
I returned the ring and told her all I wanted was a picture and a smile and she was blown away.
The thanks smiles and good will was well worth returning the ring 100 times over.
So a good day at the beach turned into a terrific day making someone happy.
Reid
For me the only rings I have found this year were the plated dime store variety.
Don’t get me wrong I love getting up at 530 and hitting the beach even if I don’t find anything worthwhile.
Wednesday morning started out as a beautiful day with little wave action nice temps and no jellyfish to speak of, my first good find of the day looked like a real keeper a nice class ring that looked to be gold, a little later another small ring with diamonds that was plated but still a 2 ring day aint bad at all.
After getting back to the truck with Bill he saw the 10k inside with what appeared to be a name, woohoo first real gold of the year for me.
After getting it home and checking it out I could see one name inside, It appeared to be a first name with no last, well I had the school mascot and year she would graduate 2017 and it matched a local school, school around here hasn’t started yet but thought I would give it a shot.
I gave them a call and told the lady that answered I had a first name and I had found a class ring if there was some way they could look and see if they had someone there with that name and give her my name and number to call me. I was met with we don’t give out that information, I can’t take your number it’s against school policy you can leave ring in the lost and found.
Well that didn’t really help at all and I wasn’t going to just leave the ring without even knowing if the girl ever got it back.
After the wife got home first thing she noticed was the full name was case into the outside of ring! Dang I knew I was blind but how I didn’t see it makes me check my glasses again.
The detective in her was awakened and off she went on an internet search, with full name in hand year she was to graduate it didn’t take her long to find a face book page.
The name inside was a nic name and it matched the girl online.
Trouble now was girl didn’t except and messages from people she didn’t know.
This didn’t stop my wife, she proceeded to message anyone that had posted on this girls Facebook page that would let her and tell them to contact us that we had found the girls high school ring.
Well it didn’t take too long before she had contact, the young girl’s mother got a message called us even texted a picture with her daughter wearing the ring. She couldn’t believe that someone had found the ring and was willing to return it. She called her daughter who was in tears so upset she had lost this expensive ring that meant so much to her.
Well I told her to call me the next day so we could plan on a meeting. The mother called about midday to say her daughter was still out of town but they were in my area and if she could come by, I said sure and she was on the way.
I returned the ring and told her all I wanted was a picture and a smile and she was blown away.
The thanks smiles and good will was well worth returning the ring 100 times over.
So a good day at the beach turned into a terrific day making someone happy.
Reid
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