Me and Goio were attacked today by a thief trying to rob us!!!!

[treasurefiend]

This happened on Wednesday. Its not a beach hunt, but still be careful out hunting...

We went to our normal hunting spot in a Chicago public park like any other day. Everything was cool.
I found a 1920 Merc, that is the end of my 71 day silver coin drought so I was happy.

I was detecting when I saw Goio saying something to me. I took off my headphones,
when I saw a young guy maybe 16 - 20 years old throw a bottle at him. It missed him, but not by much.
The guy was like 15 feet away from us. I guess Goio was digging a plug when the first bottle came sailing
right passed his head. Every time he threw a bottle he tried to rush up on us. He prolly thought we would
drop our detectors and he could run up and grab it. Well he got really close like 10 feet from me and whipped
another bottle at me, I saw it coming right for my head so I blocked it with my forearm. Just as before he tried
to rush me. This time I raised my shovel up and said "I'm gonna cut your %$&*@# head off!!!" well he took 1
step forward then ran off. He had another buddy off like 100 feet or so. Prolly ready to call his boys if anything
happened to him.

I wish I could of got my hands on him, I would of messed him up good. But my luck, he prolly is underage and I
would go to jail!!! He was whipping those bottles hard like he played baseball or some thing. The bottle that hit me
didn't blowup on impact, it bounced off. But now I have a big lump on my forearm, but that better than a broken
nose!!!! God I hate thief's. The thing that bothers me most is that he tried to smash a bottle on Goios head when
he wasn't expecting it. Coward!!!! I at least knew that a bottle was coming at me.

Oh yea, we still have all of our gear - he got nothing from us.

here are the pix that I took of today's hunt.

 

[Gulf Hunter]

You may need to take things a step further, when the crowd looks like it will be a bit rough and HERE it IS legal, be sure to check where you are with law enforcement. I bought a 12ga flare gun and keep one in the pipe, with extra rounds. It is also submersible too and have walked right by the law and no one has ever said a thing. It will burn a phosphorous hole through an attacker and if nothing else, will deter them from throwing bottles or maybe pulling a gun on you. Just a thought, sorry you were violated. How did you get that nasty cut anyway, from the bottle richocheting off your arm? Was it a broken bottle, sounds like aggravated assault to me. Did you guys call the law or what?

 

[Stacey in West Palm Beach]

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[Sanddigger]

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[R-n-R Magnolia SpringsAla]

Up in the morning, pistol goes in belt. Down at night pistol goes in nightstand. Yet another reason I love the south. In yankeeland ya prob can't carry a stick to defend yourself. If you can get an extendable baton it fits into a belt sheath and they work, just ask the cops. Candy@ssed little punks. Problem is if they are brave enough to do that in broad daylight what kind of stuff are they doing at night???

 

[zander1013]

if you call the law they will pro'lly arrest you.

 

[GaBeachsweeper]

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[GaBeachsweeper]

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[GaBeachsweeper]

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[R-n-R Magnolia SpringsAla]

Stuck it in the front of my pants. Ever see a "bum" do a double-take? I have. And imagine this, NO cops showed up to harass for carring in the "open". We used to hunt in 4-6 person groups and had no problems. I don't hunt over there much anymore cause it was no fun having to worry about some craphead messing with ya. Found some awsome stuff though. It's a real shame.

 

[Bobbie]

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[Stacey in West Palm Beach]

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[Beachcomber]

Man that sucks!!!! Too bad you didn't get a pix of your attacker that you could have given to the Police!!!! I like GulfHunter's Flaregun idea! Cheap...non-lethal (unless you hit them just right) and probably would scare the crap out of them. No expects to see a flare flying towards them

HH

Beachcomber

 

[mattockman]

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[Stacey in West Palm Beach]

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[mattockman]

Bobby, Your bad!....But right!....I didn't see no one throwing bottles sir! ...Oh what? this pile of dirt?....it was just a buick I reburied...no its not a body of some punk throwing Bottles at me!

 

[mattockman]

 

[mattockman]

Are you a size 6.5-7 ring size? It has 60 diamonds cut and set individualy, 14k.....retails for over a $1000......

 

[Stacey in West Palm Beach]

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[mattockman]

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