Friday, December 15, 2006

Color me a very deep green.

Speaking of fortuitous encounters at dumpsters, if you look up the definition of "Lucky, lucky bastard" in the dictionary, you'll find a picture of ColtCCO.
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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lucky bastard indeed.

11:50 AM, December 15, 2006
Sigivald said...

Speaking of dumpsters, I have a Savage 99F that I'm told my grandfather found in a dumpster in Chicago.

I'm also assured he turned it in to the police and got to keep it after it was declared not reported stolen or involved in a crime.

I have no first-hand way of knowing if that's true, since that grandfather's been dead for a while, but it's a great story, so I'll maintain that it's true in any case.

4:46 PM, December 15, 2006
Anonymous said...

Portland State University did something similar in the early 1980's ... throwing away periodicals.

Porsfis scored their entire SF magazine section ... I helped them cart it out before the paper scrap folks got at it ... including a nearly complete set of Astounding, and the successor, Analog ....

Heh.

5:56 PM, December 15, 2006
Bob Hawkins said...

A coworker of mine found a gold bar in a dumpster. It was small, smaller than a pack of cigarettes, but it was gold.

Yes, I was working in Washington, DC at the time.

8:13 PM, December 16, 2006
Matt G said...

Holy. Crap.

3:28 AM, December 17, 2006
Anonymous said...

Damn! I thought I did well last week when I got 2000 .224 55 grain FMJ for $28. I have been eclipsed, big time.

Tracy

9:20 AM, December 17, 2006
Anonymous said...

I guess the lobbyist who threw out the gold bar didn't want to be bothered with having a load of small change in his pocket ....

10:37 PM, December 17, 2006

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