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- MothBoy, on 06/25/2009, -0/+25Article with pics.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195298/Th ... - lpse2000, on 06/25/2009, -7/+31250,000 pounds! That's so heavy - how will she get it out of the ground?
- johnn11238, on 06/25/2009, -0/+22Yeah, must really suck to take a six-hour walk every week with somebody that cares about you.
- mga911, on 06/25/2009, -2/+17no picture?
- bigpappapunk, on 06/25/2009, -1/+16*budum pshhhh*
- MothBoy, on 06/25/2009, -1/+12No pic?
Sounds like a Monty Python skit anyway:
"Ms. Hannaby from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire" - zdw216, on 06/25/2009, -0/+7I always laugh at those people with metal detectors on the beach. Not anymore. Touche to you Ms. Hannaby..
- ZOMGitsRadimus, on 06/25/2009, -0/+6So apparently those late night commercials for metal detectors didn't lie... brb, getting my credit card.
- ShadowFusion, on 06/25/2009, -0/+66 hours every sunday
52 sundays a year
7 years
2184 hours of searching
£250,000 payoff
= £114.46 an hour
1£ = $1.63
= $186.57 an hour
Grand Total: $58,032 annual salary to walk around in a field for a few hours every Sunday afternoon - pegothejerk, on 06/25/2009, -0/+5They didn't lie, they just didn't give you the odds. Better to go buy a lotto ticket or wait for a metal rich meteorite to land in front of you.
- sameer768, on 06/25/2009, -2/+7''As one of only three of its kind to have survived, the find could be worth even more than £250,000, and its engraving is being compared to that of the Middleham Jewel, which sold at auction for £1.3million in 1986 and was later resold to the Yorkshire Museum for £2.5million.''
Damn. - inactive, on 06/25/2009, -4/+8Metal detecting is quite popular in countries that have history, not much point in north america is there.
- inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+4Burn!
- inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3Man, the only thing I ever found with a metal detector were goddamn soda can tabs. WTF?
- shillabus, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3whoosh
- inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3actually its about the same as an american lottery. they have well defined rules.
- inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+3Now that is a woman who enjoys her hobby.
- Chappync, on 06/26/2009, -0/+2Here yah go http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp ...
- sTiVo, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2I disagree. I bet you have a better chance of recovering your investment with a metal detector than with a lotto ticket. Heck, its kind of fun anyway, so you are indeed getting something. I borrowed one from a friend to find the survey markers on my property and couldn't help walking around my house seeing what we could find. My kids and I had a blast finding coins (nothing too value, mind you) and other relics from when my house was a farm house.
- alwaysnomadic, on 06/25/2009, -3/+5I hope I don't have to meet you
- inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2I'm getting me a metal detector!
- anixmander, on 06/25/2009, -0/+2Don't tell me ahhell, you didn't read the articles, did you?
Her find is covered by laws already on the books there. - Jarsht, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Leaves husband and has a reality tv contest for hiring her new butler. Hilarity ensues.
- treas, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Why is it that the most unbelievable stories are always in the Telegraph?
- thepeacemaker, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Nothing in my entire friggin city (houston) is more than 100 years old <sigh>.
- inactive, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Now she just has to find a buyer that'll pay 250,000.
- nothing4me, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Why did he get dugg down? I mean, he was trying to put it into perspective.
- banski, on 06/25/2009, -1/+2Generally the landowner gets 50%, and if its gold/silver the British museum gets to compulsory purchase it at market value
- Tgg161, on 06/25/2009, -0/+1Anyone who wants to buy a metal detector should read this awesome Slate article:
"Metal Detecting: The World's Worst Hobby"
http://www.slate.com/id/2086909/ - Chappync, on 06/26/2009, -0/+1here yah go http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp ...
- inactive, on 06/25/2009, -1/+2Specially here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Knox - inactive, on 06/25/2009, -3/+3booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
- proverbialRock, on 10/20/2009, -0/+0False alarm. Item is of dubious value, and only auctioned for £38,000, below the minimum.
http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2009/07/detectori ... - mikemehak, on 06/25/2009, -1/+1I was going to suggest that her husband be very happy.
Because
a) she just found a $250,000 treasure
b) she's not off sleeping around while he's at work.
Then I saw the article with her pics. There is no way that man can be happy. - wassim2k, on 06/25/2009, -1/+1In other news, the sale of metal detectors go through the roof.
Buy one here: http://www.metaldetectors.com/ - surfergirlsc, on 06/25/2009, -0/+0I need a metal detector.
- LuckyScofield, on 06/25/2009, -2/+1As soon as I read this, i thought that is all a cover story. In a month she will be arrested from stealing from someones attic
- Pinkertinkle, on 06/25/2009, -9/+8What's she doing outta the kitchen?
- ahhell, on 06/25/2009, -6/+1And I bet the government takes it all and she gets nothing.
- inactive, on 06/25/2009, -10/+5No picture, no digg.
- AraleNorimaki, on 06/25/2009, -8/+1Once my kids leave the house, I'll finally be able to do what every man is supposed to. I can watch TV. I can... well, I don't know but it doesn't matter. It's still better than having a screaming, crapping, money-sucking little vampire bobsledding me to the graveyard. God I feel good.
- robertworkman, on 06/25/2009, -14/+7buried for no pic
- JohnEHubertz, on 06/25/2009, -10/+2It is tiny - the size of a postage stamp.
It is a reliquary pendant of the Holy Trinity - Google it and you;ll see a pic on other news stories. - Whitecoolie, on 06/25/2009, -9/+1Hopefully this happens to me too...
- bigpappapunk, on 06/25/2009, -16/+3"Mrs Hannaby, 57, from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, made the discovery while out on one of her regular six-hour Sunday detecting walks with her son Michael, a 33 year-old wood carver."
Sounds like someone has a sad sad life - inactive, on 06/25/2009, -15/+1*****!
- CrazedLeper, on 06/25/2009, -17/+2She married a house? The guy with the gimp leg?
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