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BUSTED - 4/30/2006 11:52:02 PM    JGUIS   Posts: 1705 Joined: 3/18/2006 From: New Lexington, OH Status: offline So while trespassing the other day looking for a historic building, I found a few bottles. As I was ready to pick up my pile(I was picking instead of digging), the landowners son walked up on me to find out why I was on his property. He(and his father at first) thought I was invading their mushroom patch, so I had to go to the house to have a talk with dad about the bottles I found. Dad's not a real happy guy to begin with(according to locals), but he listened to my history search story, and we ended up talking for hours. When I asked about the bottles, he told me of catching a couple guys from Columbus on his other property, digging an old schoolhouse privy. He made them put their bottles down and leave. After an invitation into his barn and house, I saw why. He too is a bottlehead, and has them everywhere. I got to hold one of the coolest bottles I've ever seen, which he found locally(but wouldn't tell me where). It was a round bottom, amber, embossed (something like Wagner or someting,I forget) I do remember it having 1850 right in the middle, pocket whiskey flask. It was SWEET, not to mention, MINT! He said he looked it up in a book a few years back and it was worth about $500. So now that I know nice finds like that exist in this part of the woods, I'll be checking some older spots. (with permission, of course) I just found out about the first tavern in the county. 1806 on the Zane's Trace, now I just gotta find it. _____________________________ A pipe gives a wise man time to think, and gives a fool something to stick in his mouth. Post #: 1

RE: BUSTED - 5/1/2006 3:11:39 AM    madman   Posts: 4856 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline hey i got a busted story for ya, we had a mild winter in northwest ohio, so i was able to dig all winter, my bro sent me a headlight for x mas [miner type] so i got into digging in the dark, anyway wed'd just got a new police chief, and hes cleaning up the city, me and my buddy dan set out to the spot, it gets dark, im in a good spot find some keepers go back to the car, put the key in the ignition and a spot light in my face five cop cars and an undercover very agitated, they do all the crap spred um and all, ask what you doing down here, and such, then proceed that the spot im digging in, dead bodys have been dumped by local gangs, never seen no bodys but who knows, it was all cool no warrents all good, shook me up , but never new what i was reallydoing digging for bottles, if they would have seen shovels it would have been over, csi **** man this world is f up mike (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 2

RE: BUSTED - 5/1/2006 1:34:05 PM    Bottleman Posts: 851 Joined: 9/3/2004 From: Central Pennsylvania Status: offline I have been busted too many times for digging in areas that I shouldn’t have. Well, I though it was alright but other people didn’t agree. Luckily only once with the police. We parked our car at a dead end street and one of the neighbors called the cops because it was “suspicious”. By the time the cops arrived, it had already become a night dig. They found us over the hill digging but were pretty cool about it. They took our names and phone numbers but let us keep digging after dark. Another incident that happened to my buddy was pretty funny. Someone called the cops because they saw a few guys digging a deep hole in a back yard. It was a privy that they got permission for but I was told two cops hopped a fence to get to the diggers. They seriously thought they were bearing some bodies in the back yard. ~~Tom (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 3

RE: BUSTED - 5/1/2006 5:05:54 PM    capsoda Posts: 7914 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online The cops around my area are pretty cool about diggers but the arcy types and the histerical society types get pretty up tight. Since New Orleans flooded and it was apparently mine and my wifes fault there are good digs we no longer have access to. I have had the cops called on me and have been called "YOU PEOPLE" by the owner. I guess she has a problem with one legged people. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 4

RE: BUSTED - 5/2/2006 8:54:34 PM    Mainepontil Posts: 215 Joined: 1/11/2005 Status: offline My best was a guy that came out of nowhere and says "I know what you are doing, you're growing POT" What??????? Ok dude, maybe you are. Like I'd be growing in YOUR backyard. What a stoner. Another time we went back to a dump we had been working and this was posted on a tree. Historical site????? I bet the he'd be pretty pissed if I called the state EPA and asked them to come and see his "historical" site. Large rusty 55 gal. drums, washing machines, old cars. Oh yea..and pontilled bottles. < Message edited by Mainepontil -- 5/2/2006 8:57:57 PM > _____________________________ Dig it NOW....before a housing development is built. (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 5

RE: BUSTED - 5/2/2006 9:34:01 PM    Jim Posts: 2429 Joined: 7/5/2005 From: Lewistown, PA Status: online That's funny! Nothing like classifying us bottle diggers with s*x offenders. Such dirty, nasty creeps we are. I know where there is a 40s Packard that is buried in a creek bank, I should start a petition to have it registered as a National Historic Landmark Jim _____________________________ Preserving our buried history, one pit at a time. http://www.freewebs.com/lewistownbottles/index.htm (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 6

RE: BUSTED - 5/2/2006 9:46:49 PM    Mainepontil Posts: 215 Joined: 1/11/2005 Status: offline I know..what a sicko. I'm GLAD we did not meet up with him in the woods. I'm sure he IS the perverted molester. What a dump it is though, I got a citron Bunker Hill pickle and my buddy got a blue lighting. We have only dug 1/3 of it too, there is still a 6' tall mound of dump waiting to be dug. Figured we'd give it a few years to cool off, then hit it on a rainy day. _____________________________ Dig it NOW....before a housing development is built. (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 7

RE: BUSTED - 5/3/2006 3:06:09 AM    madman   Posts: 4856 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline yea rainy days are great no one f with you lol mike (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 8

RE: BUSTED - 5/3/2006 8:32:00 AM    crkgrl   Posts: 137 Joined: 11/20/2005 From: Kentucky Status: offline The dump I am digging is in a "grey" area. We are not sure it is our property. There is a very nosy neighbor, guy, that always has some lame excuse to come over and see what I am doing, whether it is digging or not. He surprised me at the dump but I just acted like I was doing nothing wrong. I dont believe it is his property either. He is harmless but his nosiness is annoying. (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 9

RE: BUSTED - 5/3/2006 5:38:03 PM    Oldtimer Posts: 744 Joined: 5/13/2004 From: Effingham NH. Where else? Status: offline I've been kicked out just once, and my diggin pal has had the cops called...the landowner though every bottle he had in his house was from her dump...she was whacked out over it being disturbed..He gave her (and the cop beside her) back some garbage worthless bottles...and she was content...she re-buried them...what a loooooon...lol... When I was tossed, I had only been there 3 minutes...and had picked a pontiled bottom out of the top 5" of leaf litter...I know for 100% certain there's a GOLD MINE there...it's a steeeeep slope right on the edge of the main drag in an 1830s mill town..and it was a common dump for several grand old structures...I intend to go bribe them with a $50.00 bill...in another year or so.. _____________________________ STOP THE CAR !! I think I see a cellarhole !!! (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 10

RE: BUSTED - 5/5/2006 12:29:41 PM    barbieheid   Posts: 127 Joined: 12/23/2005 Status: offline ..He gave her (and the cop beside her) back some garbage worthless bottles...and she was content...she re-buried them...what a loooooon...lol... Sounds like some ancient bottle burial rite ... _____________________________ Barbie >^,,^< (in reply to Oldtimer) Post #: 11

RE: BUSTED - 5/6/2006 1:23:47 PM    Bottleman Posts: 851 Joined: 9/3/2004 From: Central Pennsylvania Status: offline Here is a picture of a sign that was nailed to a wooden pallet and placed over my hole. It’s a very long story but another digger was jealous that we were finding rare bottles and he wasn’t so he tried to make us think that we weren’t allowed to dig there anymore. He wanted to make it look like the borough put it there who sometimes gives us a hard time but it was obvious it was him. ~~Tom Attachment (1) (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 12

RE: BUSTED - 5/6/2006 7:22:43 PM    PopBottle   Posts: 10 Joined: 4/30/2006 From: WOODLAWN TENNESSEE Status: offline Good subject enjoyed the reading. I just found this site last week (Great web site}and was wondering .how you would go about finding places to dig, Then trying to get the go ahead by the Landowner's. I have a old creek bed down on my land where people use to dump garbage, The only problem, This time of the year its over grown with sticker bushes and would probably take a bull dozer to get in there, This time of the year. I guess this winter I will go down there and get out some digging tools and see what is bured there. (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 13

RE: BUSTED - 5/6/2006 7:41:17 PM    JGUIS   Posts: 1705 Joined: 3/18/2006 From: New Lexington, OH Status: offline Actually, briars aren't that hard to deal with, with the right clothes on. Once you carve a hole under them to the main stalk, you can cut it and drag the whole thing out(with leather gloves on). They dont get any less pointy in the winter, just more brittle. _____________________________ A pipe gives a wise man time to think, and gives a fool something to stick in his mouth. (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 14

RE: BUSTED - 5/7/2006 2:08:01 AM    capsoda Posts: 7914 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online Hey Tom, I guess there is one everywhere. Hey Popbottle, I just whack them with a machetti. I were leather gloves and heavy pants but I have the advantage of a carbon fiber/fiberglass leg to lead off with. Can't hurt that thing.LoL < Message edited by capsoda -- 5/7/2006 1:08:39 AM > _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 15

RE: BUSTED - 5/7/2006 7:23:35 AM    PopBottle   Posts: 10 Joined: 4/30/2006 From: WOODLAWN TENNESSEE Status: offline I got some of those rabbit hunting britches to get thru the brairs, but this is like a sticker jungle, with a couple old fallen tree's right in the middle of it, You all are right through, I reckon I need to get a battle plan together and go for it. Thanks .. (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 16

RE: BUSTED - 5/7/2006 8:33:38 AM    amblypygi Posts: 453 Joined: 4/6/2004 From: Western Massachusetts Status: offline The stickers are a breeze, it's the poison ivy that I can't stand. I'm not even very allergic to it, but when you cut through a bunch of it's roots it gets upset. One indispensible diggin tool is this poison ivy soap/lotion stuff called Tech-nu, it completely neutralizes the poison ivy (and poison oak and poison sumac) if you wash with it in time. It's expensive but I always carry some with me when digging. Sean (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 17

RE: BUSTED - 5/7/2006 9:54:49 AM    bearswede Posts: 2910 Joined: 9/28/2004 From: western mass Status: offline Sean... When I was an archeologist at Umass, I did a survey on a terrace of the Connecticut River, down parallel to Riverdale Road in Springfield... It was spring, before any green had sprung... We dug some test pits and profiled some large back-hoe pits... Long story short, I came down with the worst P.I. i've ever had... Had to go the infirmary... Just my luck, I drew a woman doctor and had to drop trow... Don't know which was most uncomfortable, my oozing flesh or having to expose the privates to a strange woman (never mind, Warren...!!!)... Ron _____________________________ "I LOVE Wolfies!!!!!!!!!!!!" (in reply to amblypygi) Post #: 18

RE: BUSTED - 5/7/2006 11:04:39 AM    Yooper14 Posts: 313 Joined: 4/25/2005 From: Ohio Status: offline Briars are my best friend. My best dump is landlocked and hidden away in the midst of the thickets thickets I've ever seen. I've made a winding little trail with an obscure entrance to the dump, and cleared out the brush in the dump area. Now I have my own little private dump that only a very determined person could find. Concerning the orignial topic of this post, trespassing, I have some mixed feelings. I grew up in northern Michigan, where everyone posted signs but everyone was welcome to walk all over anyone's property with no questions asked...just the way it was. Here in Ohio it's a different story. But I want to look at it from the other side: This dump I'm digging is on private property, property which I have permission to be on at any time. The caretaker is aware of my diggings, etc. Now, this is a huge piece of property, and the local people make use of it like it's a public park. Lots of mushroom hunters and the like. Since I live adjacent to the property, I've been asked to keep an eye out for people up to no good. Most people I come across are honest folks out looking for mushrooms or watching birds. But now and then some yoohoo is out to no good. For example, I leave my digging tools out at my dump - my shovels, rakes, saws, etc. Well, a couple weeks ago I went back and there were tracks al over the place. Someone had taken ALL my tools, and my nice sifter was al busted - beaten to death with a shovel. What a bunch of IDIOTS!! So I can't claim to be one that thought trespassing was wrong, but when I see what some people do, I start to get real iritated. So I've gotta put myself in someone elses shoes. What if someone were digging holes on my property. Yeah, I'd have a real problem with that, especially having seen some things get stolen and seeing the disregard people have for basic property. On public land, like state parks (someone mentioned Mohican earlier), I think ethics are a little different, as taxpayers own the land to begin with.... Just some thoughts. Tim _____________________________ "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." - Shaw Yooper (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 19

RE: BUSTED - 5/7/2006 1:43:05 PM    capsoda Posts: 7914 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online What! I didin say nuttin! I DIDIN SAY NUTTIN! Oh hell Ron you know I have to. Did she giggle first or did you!!!!!!! RoR I'm not allergic to the sting of the ivy triplets. < Message edited by capsoda -- 5/7/2006 12:47:20 PM > _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to JGUIS) Post #: 20

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