tinpan
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"Gold Tour Scammer Busted At The weekend Tourist Market"
Hi everyone, i thought i would mention this story of a scammer that was at the Tourist Market, which is held at the new showgrounds ,once a month.Well my son{jake} goes to this market to do Card game trading.After i dropped him off, i decided to go for a lookie,for something to do.Lots of stalls and stands selling fresh produce and craft items.Well a got about half around the market and i spotted some m.ds leaning against this van,behind a table.Thinking this looks interesting, mit go check it out.Nice collection of home-made books for sale and awsome looking relics in display cases.Quite impressive.The bloke running the stand had about a dozen or so people listening to him, explain about his adventures.He had been mding around a Australia for 16 years.So i just listened for a while and when the others moved away from the table,i moved i for a better look.
First i was having a quick look at his books for sale and on the second page was a picture of a chinese miner that came straight of a book by Douglas Stone [famous aussie gold mder] I thought thats odd and read a few of the texts for the book, they to where from the same book word for word.
By this time the bloke came up to me and started to talk to me."you sort of interested in going on a gold tour with me"I had said no-thing about being a mder.Well i had to hear this one.
.So i listened to his stories for about 10 minutes.Gee this bloke could to sell banana skin to anybody.He reached i to his pocket and showed me 5 gold nuggets all about 1oz to 2oz.My eyes fell out of head.I asked where he had found them.
"i found these gold nuggets at the top of the gully, about half a mile from the show grounds"Busted big time, first that ridge is called The JackAss and got its name from the goldminers who knew there was no gold there.There no ancient waterways or shallow or deep leads and not even a saddle quarzt reef there.Also it was mded back 20 years a go for relics and bottle diggers.
Also the nuggets he had where not the same as local gold.These where solid looking and local gold has that honey-comb look about it.So i still didn,t let on that i m.d.Gee he had about 6 different m.ds on display and not one of them showed ware on the underneath of the coils.the ground around here has a lot of sharp quartz and slates which always mark the coil.So i let him go on for a bout another 5 minutes.
I asked how much to go mding for a day trip $500 dollar and that included lunch.I wanted to know why so much,got i,m best so you have to pay and guaranteed returns.I asked where "local forrest." he replied.
His van was a 1969 wv comi van that he reckons he took into 4 wheel drive country.There was no ware or tare from traveling.His bloke was a real joke and i just walked away.
Well the next month he was back at the market,here he was was telling big tales and sucking people in.So i couldn,t help myself .
I walked over too the stand and there was a few people there.I got started big time.
"Hey You"those md s have never been used" and the gold you showing didn,t come from around here and your books are a rip off of others hard work
"There little gold to be found in the local forrest unless your spiking the ground"Your not from around here and you don't know what your talking
about."
Theres 2 Gold tour family companies in my town and they go to alot of expence to ran their ventures legally and just make a living.They charge about $150 a day trip and that includes lunch.I never heard anyone ever give them a bad rap.
Well this bloke got a little angry,well he went off his head at me and called me every thing one could think of. Gee he seemed to scare away the people.Seems i did complete the task at hand with his help.I know everyone has a right to make a crust but this was just a plain scamming bum from who knows ware.Our hobbie doesn,t not need these people and we don,t need them.He has not been back to market since that time.yes the fact is if he had taken a swing at me,i would have given him a good hammering.I know A.P you have given some good advice on "Mellow Out" but not with these sort of crooks.
I don,t know if i did the right thing ,i think its time to make a stand.I,m very interested in your views in what i did.Soon i going to run a post about crook archaeologist and a local university teacher has had a short story published about me too You will have a real laugh when i post it and he even mailed me a copy to use.
Tinpan "flatout like a lizard drinking"
Hi everyone, i thought i would mention this story of a scammer that was at the Tourist Market, which is held at the new showgrounds ,once a month.Well my son{jake} goes to this market to do Card game trading.After i dropped him off, i decided to go for a lookie,for something to do.Lots of stalls and stands selling fresh produce and craft items.Well a got about half around the market and i spotted some m.ds leaning against this van,behind a table.Thinking this looks interesting, mit go check it out.Nice collection of home-made books for sale and awsome looking relics in display cases.Quite impressive.The bloke running the stand had about a dozen or so people listening to him, explain about his adventures.He had been mding around a Australia for 16 years.So i just listened for a while and when the others moved away from the table,i moved i for a better look.
First i was having a quick look at his books for sale and on the second page was a picture of a chinese miner that came straight of a book by Douglas Stone [famous aussie gold mder] I thought thats odd and read a few of the texts for the book, they to where from the same book word for word.
By this time the bloke came up to me and started to talk to me."you sort of interested in going on a gold tour with me"I had said no-thing about being a mder.Well i had to hear this one.
.So i listened to his stories for about 10 minutes.Gee this bloke could to sell banana skin to anybody.He reached i to his pocket and showed me 5 gold nuggets all about 1oz to 2oz.My eyes fell out of head.I asked where he had found them."i found these gold nuggets at the top of the gully, about half a mile from the show grounds"Busted big time, first that ridge is called The JackAss and got its name from the goldminers who knew there was no gold there.There no ancient waterways or shallow or deep leads and not even a saddle quarzt reef there.Also it was mded back 20 years a go for relics and bottle diggers.
Also the nuggets he had where not the same as local gold.These where solid looking and local gold has that honey-comb look about it.So i still didn,t let on that i m.d.Gee he had about 6 different m.ds on display and not one of them showed ware on the underneath of the coils.the ground around here has a lot of sharp quartz and slates which always mark the coil.So i let him go on for a bout another 5 minutes.
I asked how much to go mding for a day trip $500 dollar and that included lunch.I wanted to know why so much,got i,m best so you have to pay and guaranteed returns.I asked where "local forrest." he replied.
His van was a 1969 wv comi van that he reckons he took into 4 wheel drive country.There was no ware or tare from traveling.His bloke was a real joke and i just walked away.
Well the next month he was back at the market,here he was was telling big tales and sucking people in.So i couldn,t help myself .
I walked over too the stand and there was a few people there.I got started big time.
"Hey You"those md s have never been used" and the gold you showing didn,t come from around here and your books are a rip off of others hard work
"There little gold to be found in the local forrest unless your spiking the ground"Your not from around here and you don't know what your talking
about."
Theres 2 Gold tour family companies in my town and they go to alot of expence to ran their ventures legally and just make a living.They charge about $150 a day trip and that includes lunch.I never heard anyone ever give them a bad rap.
Well this bloke got a little angry,well he went off his head at me and called me every thing one could think of.
Gee he seemed to scare away the people.Seems i did complete the task at hand with his help.I know everyone has a right to make a crust but this was just a plain scamming bum from who knows ware.Our hobbie doesn,t not need these people and we don,t need them.He has not been back to market since that time.yes the fact is if he had taken a swing at me,i would have given him a good hammering.I know A.P you have given some good advice on "Mellow Out" but not with these sort of crooks.I don,t know if i did the right thing ,i think its time to make a stand.I,m very interested in your views in what i did.Soon i going to run a post about crook archaeologist and a local university teacher has had a short story published about me too
You will have a real laugh when i post it and he even mailed me a copy to use.Tinpan "flatout like a lizard drinking"
Naw,I ain't that lucky 
