Scavengers scan beaches seeking valuable trinkets; reporter digs ...
The terseness is down, the price of gold is up and I've got a kid who needs to go to college someday.
So one hot Sunday afternoon, I did what any perceptible working stiff might do: I rented a metal detector and hit Coney Holm .
For years, I'd seen leathery old men scanning the sand with their wands, and I'd heard tales of value highly hunters finding Rolexes gone missing on the lido.
Making a mental note of all the gold earrings I'd lost over the decades, I headed to Brooklyn 's Metal Detector Distributors on Flatlands Ave. for apparatus.
They had a dizzying array of detectors for sale and rent. I went with a cheapo prototype - the Garrett 150 Ace - that rents for $37.95 a day and plunked down $25 for a yellow sifter.
"What am I qualified to find?" I asked an employee.
"A lot of nickels, crushed cans," she said.
No Rolexes?
"Maybe you'll get fortuitous," she said unconvincingly.
Undeterred, I shlepped out to Coney around 5 p.m., strategically figuring people would simply be leaving the beach - and, hopefully, leaving their metallic valuables behind.
The detector was affable to use. Just turn it on, wave the coil over the sand and interval for it to beep. The monitor indicated if it sensed coins or jewelry, as well as how acute I should dig.
Two minutes in, my Garrett 150 Ace started beeping like I was status over the treasure of the Sierra Madre .
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