AMERICAN DIGGERS TV SHOW, REDICULAS!!!!

[PrivyCheese]

All these show suck. All are staged and couldnt be no further from reality. Take these idiots first. Everything they dig is like six inches under ground...seriously..They go to ALASKA! the last American frontier....Its like 2 degrees and Haystracks Calhoun walks around in a denim jacket with a metal detector for 30 minutes and just by chance finds some scrap iron. The antique dealer is standing there...just by chance and is waiting for him like he was waiting for a bus to come by....low and behold he gets what...$6,500 ?

Take American Nose Pickers......they are driving down some country road.... going "freestyle"... they pull up in the driveway and the camera shows them pulling in...huh? the camera was already set up to record them pulling in their van? SO what they are telling us the camera crew sneaks in while the owner isnt looking to capture the moment? Every single episode they hit major pay dirt....really? We as bottle diggers know if it was that easy.....everyone would be doing it. Same as the storage locker shows....every show they find thousands of dollars.....and they act so surprised.....

Lastly....Porn Stars, This show advertises in the Las Vegas papers for people who have items to sell and who may want to be on the show. They have people come on there and sell stuff that would bring quadruple the price if sold at auction. These shows are more comedy then reality. For me I will stick with my all time favorite..... Antiques Roadshow. Sure it hasnt helped the antique dealer or us diggers in some ways but atleast you get real people and real artifacts. Sometimes the values are not spot on...but thats ok.....it is only worth what someone will pay you right?

 

[LC]

I do not think the Antique Road Show is much better than all the others . They come up with prices that are to me rediculous at times .

My oldest son was out in slick Ricks neck of the woods several weeks ago . He ran into that clown on the side walk in front of his store and asked to take his picture , he got a flat hell no . If it had been me , I would have taken the picture just for spite only . I do not see him as any kind of a celebrity at all .

 

[CreekWalker]

I agree. Antique roadshow is more realistic, without all the drama. Their Civil War relics appraiser lives in these area, is a nice honest guy, who knows his war relics. . Try Shilohrelics.com online. The pickers looks staged now more than ever, and I realize has to draw viewers, with their outragous finds. The american diggers are way out there unrealistic! To kastoo: Concerning Lizard Lick, we are seeing how money and fame motivate normally sane people to act like the insane impulsive rednecks , they originally tried to suppress or hide, except around their friends. We call this "putting on" like an act or acting out. I had seen a lot of this behavior by folks who spent their weekends in the local county jail.

 

[RICKJJ59W]

ORIGINAL: L C

I do not think the Antique Road Show is much better than all the others . They come up with prices that are to me rediculous at times .

My oldest son was out in slick Ricks neck of the woods several weeks ago . He ran into that clown on the side walk in front of his store and asked to take his picture , he got a flat hell no . If it had been me , I would have taken the picture just for spite only . I do not see him as any kind of a celebrity at all .

Where is he? I will take a picture and make a clown out of him with photo shop [8D]!

 

[LC]

He is in Vegas I think .

 

[surfaceone]

Our Archie buddies really, really don't much care for American Diggers, and are gonna try to use the same tactics to go after folks like us.

"I wholly agree with the outpouring of protest against these latest attempts to loot the cultural heritage of the U.S. for profit."

More Anti-Big Head Savage reporting.

They don't like it in Detroit either.

Don't like it on FaceBook, Neither...

Who likes it? Science Magazine.................................................Not!

After an annoying commercial....."Boom Baby!"

This Wrestler turned "Despoiler of Natural Resources" is liable to give us fits for some time to come.

They're sounding like they're not to fond of fat head at American Digger Magazine.

"The bevy of supportive comments from digging enthusiasts that follow Holcombe's announcement demonstrate a dissatisfaction with how Savage and the show are portraying the digging community."

Read this & be worried

This too. Where he wraps it up with, "I say diggers are looters. Not because what they do is illegal (many times it is -but they will never admit to digging public or government lands), rather because what they’re doing is stealing from future generations. They’re stealing the possibility of understanding a culture or civilization. They’re going for the loot, and leaving the data behind in the piles of dirt they discard in heaps, forever lost as contexts to the past. There’s no question that private land owners have the right to do with their land what they please. But just because it’s legal, doesn’t mean it’s ethical."

 

[carobran]

ORIGINAL: surfaceone











Where he wraps it up with, "I say diggers are looters. Not because what they do is illegal (many times it is -but they will never admit to digging public or government lands), rather because what they’re doing is stealing from future generations. They’re stealing the possibility of understanding a culture or civilization. They’re going for the loot, and leaving the data behind in the piles of dirt they discard in heaps, forever lost as contexts to the past. There’s no question that private land owners have the right to do with their land what they please. But just because it’s legal, doesn’t mean it’s ethical."

I've never understood this kind of thinking,we can't dig up the past but "future genereations"(I get so tired of hearing that phrase[:'(]) can?They probably won't approve of them digging either,they'll keep up the "future generations" thing forever.These things aren't gonna dig themselves up ya know!Somebody needs to uncover them and it might as well be this generation.And as for the saving of every little fragment for "historical context",well,heres part of an article written by Boyd Beccue titled"Who Owns the Past" from Bottles & Extras magazine,I think this sums it up pretty well.


"While every shard may be informative if one is excavating an ancient Native American site, to suggest that this is the case when digging privies from the recent past is bunkum. The written record consisting of newspapers, letters, books, official documents, etc. tells us far more about the 1860’s than broken china from a privy. Of course, the academics claim that there is knowledge to be gained from the littlest detail, but if we are talking about how much ketchup the locals used in 1863, what value does that really have? Is it valuable enough to trample the rights of hobby diggers? Do we need a strict accounting of every chicken or beef bone to know that the soldiers ate chicken and beef? Of course not! The same is true of the tired “context†argument the academics keep propping up."

P.S.-I didn't see any copywright or anything so I hope posting thats ok.

 

[andy volkerts]

[8D] Besides for cryin out loud the stuff dug up in privies and trash dumps is TRASH it was thrown out because it wasnt needed anymore by the throwers out or the archies or anybody who doesnt collect antique bottles.......just let it lie........we will get to it shortly.........shovels in hand

 

[AntiqueMeds]

Take American Nose Pickers......they are driving down some country road.... going "freestyle"... they pull up in the driveway and the camera shows them pulling in...huh? the camera was already set up to record them pulling in their van? SO what they are telling us the camera crew sneaks in while the owner isnt looking to capture the moment?

They did a show on a friend of my wife's family. The weird guy in Maryland that had the walk in safe in his house.
The show sent a crew to his house long before they shot the show. All the items they would "find" were negotiated and researched ahead of time and a script for the show was made. There isnt anything real about reality tv.

 

[RICKJJ59W]

There are no words to describe this guy, oh wait there is one Grotesque.

His actions make him even more so. Who would let this guy in their yard???