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Old 09-18-2007, 05:29 PM
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Well, it looks like I have my weekend cut out for me... I saw on Craigslist that someone posted about a lost ring:

Lost ladies wedding ring, at ACL Festival on Friday night 9/14. 18K Yellow gold band w/ total of 32 diamonds, pave set in 8 rows of 4 diamonds per row.

I've been emailing her back and forth today trying to get a bearing on exactly where it might have been lost - I've just about narrowed it down to.... the entire park... I do have a map of the event and the stages, etc., and she did tell me which ones they attended, but it is a daunting task at the very least...

Oh well, it will give me something to do, and who knows what else I'll find... I will try and dig every signal (there are literally hundreds of thousands of pull tabs there) and see what happens... wish me luck!
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Old 09-18-2007, 05:33 PM
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What an amazing weekend you have ahead of you! I'd never have thought to check lost/found articles, but what better way to retrieve something someone has lost. Best of luck to you! Hopefully someone hasn't gotten there before you - they may not be as nice about returning that whopper of a ring!

Good luck...HH!
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Old 09-18-2007, 05:35 PM
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Good Luck. One consolation I see right off is that the ring is 18K.... so that should read alot higher than Pulltabs. Not sure what detector you use, but I would " notch " or " disc " them out. Once again, best of luck, it looks like a daunting task indeed.
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Old 09-18-2007, 05:36 PM
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She did say in an email:

“When I went to the Lost & Found at the ACL, I was really shocked at how many rings had been turned in - who would have thought so many people would lose wedding rings!”

And there were around 65,000 people there every day for the 3 days... and I wasn't exactly too positive I'd find the other guy's ring, either, so...

Update: Here's the map she sent me... the area she shaded is the area I need to search... it's probably, oh, maybe 3 or 4 football fields in total!
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Old 09-18-2007, 06:48 PM
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Wow, that's a pretty large area. I bet you'll find way more than just her ring.

Good luck!!!
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Old 09-18-2007, 07:08 PM
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This place has a million, billion, eighty-hundred-and-eleventeen trillion pulltabs, so I'll prolly have to take an extra pouch with me...
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Old 09-18-2007, 07:09 PM
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That is one big area.
I wish you the best of luck Robert.
I just hope that someone else didn't pick it up and run away with it.

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Old 09-18-2007, 07:09 PM
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Good Luck Man.
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Old 09-18-2007, 07:40 PM
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Big job ahead of you with almost endless possibilities for other finds! Good Luck!
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Old 09-18-2007, 07:43 PM
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Yes... I'm excited... I need to get some new batteries, and stock up on water... I'm gonna make a day out of it - maybe 2!
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