Blindbowman wrote:
misleeding other is as fun as hunting for it ! lol
Fun but just a
little bit mean. I can
not say that I have never done it, only ONCE however and that was done because of several folks who spent days "observing" Mrs Oro and I doing some prospecting in the Rabbithole district (Nevada). They were less than a half mile away, and were
literally watching our every move with binoculars. We were not finding diddly for gold anyway, and I had found a bowling ball and bag in the middle of nowhere a couple of weeks earlier. You guessed it. I made sure they were watching me, and I "acted furtive" while I took the bowling ball bag out, pretending it was a real treasure or drugs etc. We had a trench dug for sampling that was quite deep (just a bit more than six feet, trying to find bedrock) so I made a big show out of carefully hiding that old bowling ball and bag in the hole, filled in the trench (had to do that anyway) and then paced off to a boulder and took compass bearings off a mountain (not really, just faking it for my audience) while Mrs Oro held a shotgun and "stood guard". We then packed up camp and "fled" - I know that was kind of nasty to do but those danged nosey jerks were really getting on my nerves, couldn't even take a whiz without them observing. If they had been actually doing some prospecting themselves, anything other than spending all day and half the night just watching our every move, I might not have pulled this prank. The jerks could hardly wait til we were "out of sight" to run down to our camp and start digging! (hee hee) I can just picture the look on their three faces (two guys and at least one gal), when they found the bag, and felt the heavy weight of it, how their pulse must have raced, only to have found an old, heavy bowling ball!
Maybe they should have spent more time actually using their dry washer and pans instead of "spying" on old Oroblanco, Mrs Oro and a dog.
However that is not something I would
ever care to make a
habit of, and have never done since; as I can just imagine how
I would feel if something like this were pulled on
me.
Nice backup camera Blindbowman - and a nice coin too! If I were you, I would put the dollar in some kind of wrapper (to protect it from wear, stains etc) and stick it in a pocket in your wallet. It has to be a "lucky" dollar, considering where you found it; plus it is "good luck" to carry a silver dollar (or a five-dollar gold piece, if one can afford that) - if ever you are broke, stuck, broke-down vehicle etc you can always use that dollar as a dollar or just sell it, sort of an "emergency" reserve of money should the need ever arise. Besides it is always less painful to sell a coin in an emergency than to have to sell your gun to get your pickup fixed.
Oroblanco
