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Lost............Sunshine Coast
« on: March 10, 2016, 06:34:08 PM »
Total longshot but much stranger things have happened on this forum.

This is the add I just posted in the Sunshine Coast Daily.

Lost. Men's 18 ct White Gold Wedding Ring. Last seen falling below the water about 50 metres north of the corner at Dog Beach, Noosa. If your good with a metal detector I am happy to pay the full retail value of the ring, circa $800. Please feel free to contact me on
0418 780 333 if you want more detailed directions.

Cheers Nomad........now to tell swmbo'd and cop a verbal flogging........

Funny thing was my 8 year old son was with me and asked if I was still married if I lost my ring.......If only my boy if only. LOL


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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2016, 06:49:00 PM »
Ouch, hope you find it. I wouldn't be returning home if that happened to me :(
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2016, 06:55:15 PM »
To tell you the truth I am totally surprised I haven't lost it beforehand. I have nearly lost it a few times in big surf here and the Mentawais, it even fell off once in the water over there but it wedged in a bit of reef so a snorkel and ten minutes later I had it back.

Problem today was the river was running fast and I couldn't tell if it buried or got swept away.
Bummer!
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2016, 07:26:31 PM »
Get on to the local detector shop in your local area pronto . They will have a bloke to help you . Good Hunting   :cheers:
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2016, 07:30:35 PM »
That's one item I won't be losing anytime soon from my body, because I have no idea where my wedding ring actually is at the moment. I gave it to the misses years ago as it was getting destroyed at work (covered in concrete and generally getting beat up), no idea where she's put it though.
Hope you get the miracle you are after, and somehow manage to get it back Nomad.
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2016, 04:57:50 AM »
Whoever finds it, will have some wicked negotiation power me thinks.

I reckon you'd cough up $2,000, which would still be worth it to avoid the verbal joisting match that inevitably occur once you fess up.

Good luck, ya gunna need it.
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2016, 05:32:37 AM »
Good luck, mine fell off in my car and was never found, even after removing all seats and carpet.....
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2016, 05:53:49 AM »
We took our daughter and kids camping up at Somerset Dam a few months ago and while she was swimming in a metre of water, she lost her wedding ring as well. It was a 5th generation heirloom
She stood still while we spent almost an hour diving all around her but no luck.  Finally we all gave up, resigned to never seeing it again
Anyway, her 11yo son says" What's it worth if I find it?"
Daughter says he can use the play station all day and all night for the rest of the holidays at home
He puts on goggles and 20mins later he finds the bloody thing!
No idea how in the murky water let alone finding the exact area where she lost it
Now he gets called "Lord Of The Ring"
All happy for the rest of the trip.  And he did spend 25hrs straight on the PS when we went home

I guess all I'm saying after all that is
Don't give up!

Cheers


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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2016, 09:34:28 AM »
I can't get mine off even if I want to.
My fingers have grown thicker.
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2016, 10:26:19 AM »
Quote from: D4D on March 10, 2016, 06:49:00 PM
Ouch, hope you find it. I wouldn't be returning home if that happened to me :(

See my missus knows me better my wedding band was $150 at Angus and Coot with instructions to just come back and get another one if you loose it
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2016, 02:03:50 PM »
Quote from: chester ver2.0 on March 11, 2016, 10:26:19 AM
See my missus knows me better my wedding band was $150 at Angus and Coot with instructions to just come back and get another one if you loose it

Times have changed and so has the price of gold. Mine is 9ct gold and cost $18 in 1974.

In a drawer somewhere. Not been required since 2004. Might be worth $50 now.
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2016, 02:51:13 PM »
Quote from: Garfish on March 11, 2016, 05:32:37 AM
Good luck, mine fell off in my car and was never found, even after removing all seats and carpet.....

Little off subject and sorry to hijack, but one day I dropped a Staun tyre deflator in the car. Like you I searched high and low and couldn't find it. Feeling frustrated because I knew it was in the car I got the torch out and looked in the handbrake hole and there it was. That was a mission to get it out seeing the hole is about the size of a Staun.
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2016, 05:23:41 PM »
Quote from: rossm on March 11, 2016, 02:03:50 PM
Times have changed and so has the price of gold. Mine is 9ct gold and cost $18 in 1974.

In a drawer somewhere. Not been required since 2004. Might be worth $50 now.

Yeah I think mine was about $400 10 years ago. Repriced one today and it was going to set me back $1200 ish........

I went back to the beach today with a snorkel but couldn't see it......might go down the pawn shop and see if there is any going cheap because I know if I buy a new one the old one will turn up.
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2016, 06:05:31 PM »
I was there and filmed it.  ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0-oeFV4oZk
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2016, 06:27:37 PM »
Quote from: Jeepers Creepers on March 11, 2016, 06:05:31 PM
I was there and filmed it.  ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0-oeFV4oZk

Thats actually pretty funny........what a douche
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #15 on: March 12, 2016, 07:37:51 AM »
Yeah. One bit he's apparently forgotten about snorkelling - the funny bent tube thingy that you breath through!  >:D
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #16 on: March 12, 2016, 08:52:53 AM »
& to stop kicking when you gut hits the sand ,,,,,,,,your there                      :cheers:
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #17 on: May 04, 2016, 07:36:25 PM »
Just to shut this thread down..................

Well a couple of weeks after losing it I saw a lady on the beach with a detector, she was a professional with a waterproof / submersible detector.

I told her about where I lost it and she told me if she finds it she charges $150.......
I get an email about 7.00pm that night saying she had found it and will drive it up from her house at Twin Waters tomorrow morning.

Hows that for luck!
« Last Edit: May 04, 2016, 07:46:05 PM by Nomad »
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #18 on: May 04, 2016, 07:39:33 PM »
That's a great result

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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #19 on: May 04, 2016, 07:41:25 PM »
The beatings can now cease!


Cheers Glen

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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #20 on: May 04, 2016, 10:17:39 PM »
Quote from: Nomad on May 04, 2016, 07:36:25 PM
Just to shut this thread down..................

Well a couple of weeks after losing it I saw a lady on the beach with a detector, she was a professional with a waterproof / submersible detector.

I told her about where I lost it and she told me if she finds it she charges $150.......
I get an email about 7.00pm that night saying she had found it and will drive it up from her house at Twin Waters tomorrow morning.

Hows that for luck!

Result!

I'm on my second because I gave my first to my wife to look after because the surf was a bit rough. (She was sitting on the beach with the 8mth old).  Guess what happened?

I am never allowed to mention it again or my replacement ring  will no longer be needed....
« Last Edit: May 04, 2016, 10:20:00 PM by tk421 »
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #21 on: May 05, 2016, 09:38:22 AM »
It does happen that they are found

mates dad found this dudes one back home.
http://www.theleader.com.au/story/3658574/kindness-of-strangers-led-to-a-shining-conclusion/
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #22 on: May 05, 2016, 09:42:43 AM »
That's a great result, even after all those weeks.
Lucky you.
Are you now allowed back into the house again?  ;D
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #23 on: May 05, 2016, 06:47:00 PM »
I am allowed back in the house again thankfully.......

It was weird though, I didn't get to stressed about it as I had this feeling in the back of my mind that I would get it back somehow.


Cheers Nomad
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Re: Lost............Sunshine Coast
« Reply #24 on: May 06, 2016, 01:43:24 PM »
Thats excellent, long time ago i lost my watch in the Yarra in Warrandyte. Almost a year later i found it again in almost the same spot , it was waterproof so only needed a new battery.
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