News: Man With Gold Fever Digs 60ft Hole in His Yard
When I was a little kid, I loved digging holes. I dug holes all the time. You know how some kids are pyros? (I was a pyro too) well I was a holyo. I would dig holes in the backyard, or down the street, or if we had a big snowstorm in the winter, that was like manna from heaven as you could dig tunnels much easier.
Even when I was in Junior High I tried digging a hole, or tunnel off in the woods where we lived in Maryland. This was during my D&D Geek phase. Instead of D&D making me a Satanist, it made me a hole-digger. I wanted to create my own underground D&D-esque Dungeon, complete with traps, hidden doors, etc.
Unfortunately though, Calvert County is basically one gigantic sand bar. My tunnel soon collapsed as the walls couldn’t support any weight being made of sand. I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t grow up in a place like Virginia City Nevada, a town that is criss-crossed with tunnels from the Silver Mines.
Sometimes I still get the urge to dig a hole.
From YahooNews:
Gold hunter digs 60-foot-deep hole in yard
MONTCLAIR, Calif. - A homeowner digging for gold in his front yard said he got “carried away” and ended up with a 60-foot-deep hole, authorities said.
Norm Enrique, 63, began digging 10 days ago after his gold detector reported a positive hit near his front patio. He told authorities he only intended to go down 3 or 4 feet.Fire officials called to the scene Tuesday found two men that Enrique hired were inside the unreinforced hole, using a bucket and rope to remove dirt.
“We told him, ‘You’re done,’” said Montclair Fire Capt. Rich Baldwin. “It’s amazing no one got killed.”
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Ned Slardy — On 6-15-2006 at 11:13 am
Oh how very funny the google ads for this article are either related to fire sales on hole punchers or real estate. Money pit, hole, whatever. Way to be famous Dolly.
Porter Venn — On 6-15-2006 at 11:21 am
Google Adsense is Wonky at Best. On the Train Museum http://goofyblog.net/trainmuseum/train_museum.htm It shows all this crap about Bush on the About page.. Yet it will show train stuff on the other pages. I don’t get it. The ads on Goofyblog will pickup articles I wrote a week ago. Arg.
Graah — On 6-15-2006 at 2:20 pm
When I was in the second grade I dug a hole in my front yard one afternoon. I kept digging for awhile. Then I filled it back in. And added water. Then I got into the hole. I have no idea why beyond it seeming like a good idea at the time. Around this time my Dad gets home and all he sees is basically my head on the front lawn. What his perspective must have been like didn’t dawn on me until years later so unfortunately I missed a great chance to play it up. Still, it did give him pause for a few seconds until my head started talking back to him.
Later on in the 6th grade I used money from my yardwork business to buy lumber that I used to cover over this 10′x4′ pit I dug in the backyard over the course of half a year or so of ‘I’m bored, I’m going to go dig’ moments. I piled the dirt over the top and then bought kerosene lamps for down inside. Unfortunately this was in Arizona and the place might as well have been an oven so after a week or two I stopped going in there. When I went back a month or two later the place was infested with black widows and other creepy crawlies. The pit stayed abandoned right up to the day we moved out.
Porter — On 6-15-2006 at 2:30 pm
“The pit stayed abandoned right up to the day we moved out.” And now it’s being rented to Illegal Immigrants for $175 a month.
Loser — On 6-16-2006 at 6:50 am
As a young teenager, in the last 70s/early 80s, some friends and I ‘found’ these U shaped metal supports about 5 feet wide by 4 feet tall. We dug a hole in the woods behind my house big enough to put three of them in there in a line. We lined the sides and top using corrugated steel roofing we also ‘found’, then covered the whole thing up with dirt, using another piece of corrugated steel to cover the approximately 2×4 entrance we left. We ended up with a 5×14 underground fort, like a bunker, with about 2-3 feet of dirt on the roof. The door was covered with sticks and leaves. Youcould be withing 5 feet of it and not know it. We had many good times in there.
Years ago, probably almost 10 now, I was home and wandered back into the (now much overgrown) woods to try to find it. No luck, though I could have sworn I was around the right spot. I suppose if I ever went back with a metal detector I could locate it.
Kevin — On 6-19-2006 at 11:14 am
Ahhhh… the joys of childhood!
george — On 12-8-2006 at 9:44 pm
I want to dig a hole 12 feet down, reinforce it, dig a room on the side with a 3 ft. by 3ft. passageway. can you give me tips?