I got 2 stories in this vein.
Was out with this guy looking for gold at a place he took me. I found a few sub gram bits and would yell out "hey mate got a bit" each time.
Suddenly he yells out whooping and yahooing "i got a beauty, its a beauty, look at this ripper nugget" he says holding it up. As im walking towards him to check it out im all "oh good stuff mate, awesome!"
Just as im about there I see his mood change and hear swearing.
I ask whats wrong, he says "I put this *"##@! thing here two years ago, I forgot about the bleep bleep thing!"
😅😅😅 He'd made a fake nugget that looked like a 5 oz bit out of lead and painted it gold. 😅 To make it worse on one side he had scratched the word SUCKER! 😅
And this...
Im at a reef years ago when fit and I had walked into the place. I had a back pack with water, some food and a hammer in case of species that needed reducing in size to carry out.
I got a big signal from a lump of rough quartz about the size of a basketball, heavy. Im thinking "oh yeah" so go for my rock hammer, but id left it in the car. Just great, a heavy jagged quartz lump I gotta carry out.
Into the back pack it goes. I get back to the car and by now its torn a few holes in the pack, no biggy, should be plenty in this im thinking.
I take it home and out back with a bigger hammer hit into it.
Soon it splits, then im greeted with the sight of a lump of lead jammed into a crack that was there when I found it. Im fuming!
Then the penny drops.
In that area two guys were detecting months earlier and working the line of reef. South to North. They though were leaving behind fake finds for those coming after them. I knew who they were.
So id decided to repay their jokes by placing a big bit of lead hammered into a crevice of a big bit if quartz with a screw driver and hammer on the next reef on the line up from them. They obviously didn't detect it.
Ages later I did 😕 and forgot id done it. 😖
Lesson learnt. 😆
