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So you think we're fuck8d up.

MattMatt
in Everything Random!
As a collector, I've heard some funny stories. And so have you guys.

But other collectors of other stuff.... well , sometimes they take the cake!!! 

I've got a story that involves a 30 tonne excavator.




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  • 110x75110x75
    I'm all ears
  • rockabilly777rockabilly777
    I'm all Matias's ears (we're an odd looking lot).  :)
  • 110x75110x75

  • MattMatt
    Well, I was chatting with this guy in a antiques shop and I asked what he collects. He said old medicine bottles and tops. Wow that's unusual I said. He says, yeah we got up to some crazy shit back in the day. I'm thinking wtf. I said, like what?

    There was lots of vacant land next to the river down at the old Melbourne docks. Him and his mate use to go down there and dig for old bottles. The deeper they went, the more bottles they'd find. Word got around and one collector had an excavator. So one night a few of them went down there with the excavator and dug for a few hours.

    They left the machine there and went back the next night. Dug for a couple of hours when the police turned up. They ran in all different directions, jumped fences. The cops couldn't catch them.

    So I'm thinking, and I asked. How much do these things go for?
    Rare ones can fetch up to $20,000 

  • CharlieCharlie
     :o 
  • CSM_2_Point_0CSM_2_Point_0
    Yeah but how much was the 30 ton excavator they left behind worth?  ?
  • MattMatt
    He picked it up a few days later. I don't think the cops had a big enough wheel clamp.
  • rockabilly777rockabilly777
    Classic. Great story!
  • CSM_2_Point_0CSM_2_Point_0
    Matt said:
    He picked it up a few days later. I don't think the cops had a big enough wheel clamp.
    ?
  • 110x75110x75
    Yep, they're more fuck8d up than us.... :|:|
  • SvenSven
    Haha!. The things we do for the treasure hunt.

    Matt we could dress up as health and safety officers and rock up to the Asta threatre demanding to inspect the roof cavities! 
  • MattMatt
    Sven said:
    Haha!. The things we do for the treasure hunt.

    Matt we could dress up as health and safety officers and rock up to the Asta threatre demanding to inspect the roof cavities! 

    All we'd need is some hi-vis vests!

    Of course the story could have grown over the years. For all I know, they might of had a Bobcat.
  • MattMatt
    The other funny part of the that day was he had found a book he'd been looking for a while. I said we had that book at home. My dad was a keen photographer. On March 6th 1981 100 photographers documented the daily life of Australian ranchers, aborigines, prisoners, shoppers, fishermen, monks, factory workers, and school children  

    He opened the book and said that's me. Covered in blood at an abattoir standing next to a ......
    The most gruesome pic in the book. I was amazed, he was quietly spoken gentleman.  



  • EisenhowerEisenhower
    Great story, Matt!! I’m keen on the “Under the floorboards discoveries!.... ;)
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