Man who fishes through sidewalk grates in New York City

[kc10bull]

Main I need to find a city with grates!!!!!! Don't need a detector, he sure does have a nice selection of recoveries. Unfortunatly he takes his stuff to pawn shops, according to the article.

From daily mail news:
Man who fishes through sidewalk grates in New York City

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[Metro Retro]

Smart guy! Then there's also this guy who mines for gold in NYC...

 

[wvwildman]

wow

 

[Terry Soloman]

I hope you folks realize this story is a few years old, and that for the most part it is "Reality TV," at it's worst (just enough truth to make it believable). If you believe this, then you believe Randy Savage can get $400.00 for a rusted two-man saw blade he just dug up..

 

[gunsil]

I hope you folks realize this story is a few years old, and that for the most part it is "Reality TV," at it's worst (just enough truth to make it believable). If you believe this, then you believe Randy Savage can get $400.00 for a rusted two-man saw blade he just dug up..

Terry, maybe the prices realized may be embellished, but I and other poor kids did this back in the 1950s. String, fishing sinker with a flattened bottom, and peanut butter, lard, or chewing gum for adhesive. My father was a janitor at the time in Grand Central station, and once I made as much in a day as he did!! Mostly found little, but when one is poor even a little is big. My finds often got me a pistachio ice cream cone from a street vendor on Delancey street. My folks didn't seem to mind me doing this every time we went uptown where there was more change down below the subway grates. Been looking for lost stuff ever since then.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Terry, maybe the prices realized may be embellished, but I and other poor kids did this back in the 1950s. String, fishing sinker with a flattened bottom, and peanut butter, lard, or chewing gum for adhesive. My father was a janitor at the time in Grand Central station, and once I made as much in a day as he did!! Mostly found little, but when one is poor even a little is big. My finds often got me a pistachio ice cream cone from a street vendor on Delancey street. My folks didn't seem to mind me doing this every time we went uptown where there was more change down below the subway grates. Been looking for lost stuff ever since then.

I don't doubt you. But you guys were hunting coins right - not gold and platinum scraps? I think all of us back in the 50s - 60s used magnets and gum to fish stuff out of grates.

 

[mcb]

Craziness! The guy in NYC has a gift, I'd never see what he does.

 

[kevin hoffman]

Thats the american spirit !! make your own wealth, give this man credit