Whats the dumbest thing you dug up! 2007 update

[trapper bob]

I posted this topic in Aug 2007..
Got alot of good storys....Here`s my original:

Posted Aug 22, 2007, 05:39:15 PM
My Grampa bought me a detector in the early 70`s and I couldn`t wait to try it. I hunted our front yard, got a beep and commenced ta diggin, not caring how large the hole or where the dirt flew . About an hour and a half later I had unearthed a huge,rusty, gnarly chevy BUMPER!! I was very happy with my find but my parents did not share in my happinnes. I had to fill and grade the hole, repair the sod and rake the entire yard. I also got to cut the grass without an allowence for the entire summer! BUMMER! Who knew.......it coulda been a treasure chest full of GOLD! HH ALL----Bob
p.s Luckly I was 12 at the time or it coulda been worse!

HOW BOUT YOURS?

 

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[savant365]

The first time I was out with my daughter we got a good deep signal and away we went to diggin'. After 30 minutes and a foot deep hole we had unearthed the broken blade off of an old shovel. We still laugh at the irony af digging for treasure and just getting another shovel.

HH Charlie

 

[MEinWV]

It didn't start out dumb! It wasn't until a year later that "dumb" entered into this. I was detecting one of my favorite local beaches, when I got a deep signal. It was in the hard packed wet sand, and I dug and dug as the walls of the hole kept caving in on me. I finally got to the target at about 15 inches or so. It was a child's beach shovel. It was a big one, about 16 to 18 inches long, and made of good quality steel (definitely made in U.S.A. back in "the good ole days"). Well, not wanting to lug it around with me and not wanting litter, I stuck it back in the hole and buried it.

In the year that followed, I detected that beach many times and with a couple new updated machines along the way. All was forgotten and there I was, a year later. I got a deep signal in the wet hardpack. I dug and dug, until I finally got to the target.
"Hey! It's a kids beach shov.. " "Oh man, you gotta be kiddin me" Dumb,dumb,dumb, I said to myself.
I had dug the same shovel up a year later.

You can bet I took that shovel with me then.

 

[BuckleBoy]

I dug up a floppy disk in the middle of a 1700s house site in a corn field one time. My first thought was "WTF?"

 

[Tank69]

dug down about 11 inches only to find the lower half of a spider man toy with a battery still in it......that one sucked

 

[cdltpx]

It didn't start out dumb! It wasn't until a year later that "dumb" entered into this. I was detecting one of my favorite local beaches, when I got a deep signal. It was in the hard packed wet sand, and I dug and dug as the walls of the hole kept caving in on me. I finally got to the target at about 15 inches or so. It was a child's beach shovel. It was a big one, about 16 to 18 inches long, and made of good quality steel (definitely made in U.S.A. back in "the good ole days"). Well, not wanting to lug it around with me and not wanting litter, I stuck it back in the hole and buried it.

In the year that followed, I detected that beach many times and with a couple new updated machines along the way. All was forgotten and there I was, a year later. I got a deep signal in the wet hardpack. I dug and dug, until I finally got to the target.
"Hey! It's a kids beach shov.. " "Oh man, you gotta be kiddin me" Dumb,dumb,dumb, I said to myself.
I had dug the same shovel up a year later.

You can bet I took that shovel with me then.

This has to be the best story to date.

 

[allen]

dug for an hour and came up with a steel budweiser can,
it was well over 14 inches deep and it really made me mad.