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<blockquote data-quote="jethro" data-source="post: 606416" data-attributes="member: 1297"><p>The worst I've had was detecting at Creswick. Sliding down an embankment with the old SD 2200 in one hand I reached out to what I thought was a wattle sapling to check my slide. Turns out it was a gorse stalk with one spike left that ended up in my finger. :awful: No worries I thought Ill just go back to camp and pull it out. No way it was coming out even when someone held my hand down and grabbed it with a pair of pointy nose pliers. 8.( So feeling a bit of a goose I went off to the local GP and explained the problem. So he gets out his professional doctoring toolkit and.... Na still not coming out the way it went in. So he says He's gonna have to cut it out. Local goes in scalpel comes out and hey presto out comes a gorse spike with a slight hook on the end. So a couple of stitches and a prescription for some antibiotics and I was good to go and enjoy the rest of my detecting holiday.. NOT. The bloody antibiotics made me feel crook (hot n cold sweats and nauscious) for 3 days so much so that I didn't feel like detecting. I HATE GORSE. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jethro, post: 606416, member: 1297"] The worst I've had was detecting at Creswick. Sliding down an embankment with the old SD 2200 in one hand I reached out to what I thought was a wattle sapling to check my slide. Turns out it was a gorse stalk with one spike left that ended up in my finger. :awful: No worries I thought Ill just go back to camp and pull it out. No way it was coming out even when someone held my hand down and grabbed it with a pair of pointy nose pliers. 8.( So feeling a bit of a goose I went off to the local GP and explained the problem. So he gets out his professional doctoring toolkit and.... Na still not coming out the way it went in. So he says He's gonna have to cut it out. Local goes in scalpel comes out and hey presto out comes a gorse spike with a slight hook on the end. So a couple of stitches and a prescription for some antibiotics and I was good to go and enjoy the rest of my detecting holiday.. NOT. The bloody antibiotics made me feel crook (hot n cold sweats and nauscious) for 3 days so much so that I didn't feel like detecting. I HATE GORSE. :mad: [/QUOTE]
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