fun thing Questions you were asked while detecting

[leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land of the Bluenose.....saw this on the California Forum and thought it would be a hoot. 10 questions that you have been asked while detecting. Here's a few of mine. Enjoy!
From the land of the Bluenose....one that comes to mind when doing a swish (water dig) is
Hey mister what you doing?

Looking for leeches I replied. Of course one time a kid ran out of the water like a scalded cat and told his mom..........man did I get dirty looks.

Once at the Dingle which is a hot spot here for land digs, I was detecting when a bus load of Japanese tourists entered the park and began snapping photos of me. Of course I was wearing a necklace with over a 100 rings on it and I was extremely hung over. One fellow appraoched me and asked what I was looking for and commented on my rings. I (again feel bad about it in retrospect) replied I was looking for land mines and these where from the fingers of folks that had been blown up. Not one of my finest hours for sure.

[PAPPY]

HERE'S YER SIGN...PAPPY

[rip]

I was once asked "what do you think your going to find there ,i just whent over that spot." by my brother just before i dug a 1898 barber quarter.

[bill(de)]

I had received permission to hunt a 250 yr old home with a lots of goodies and felt like the kid in the candy store and everything was going great until the elderly housemaid noticed me digging and walked over to see a 3" wide hole about 6" deep and the turf plug flapped over and all the loose dirt nicely laid on a cloth as i take pride in my retrieval methods. Well the lady angrily said " Do they know you dig holes to get that stuff out of the ground and besides that you bother the squirrels and they don't eat the nuts i put out when your here " .Well she made such a stink that the homeowner said sorry but she's been with us for 40yrs and perhaps it would be better if you didn't hunt anymore.Permission Denied Life goes on..

[leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land ofthe Bluenose...got to protect the wildlife and preserve the "nuts" for the squirrels. Good one sir and too funy! best of the season!

[warthog steve]

Was at a friends house once looking for a lost ring somebody had lost.I found it in the ground;tangled up in some roots from a bush.There were 4 little kids gathered around me-I was having trouble extracting the ring from the roots,and I said:"come on, ya snake,get outta there." One of the children said"That thing finds snakes?"WOW;COOL!!!"

[RingDancer]

lol! Steve