edd Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Crazy story... I recently started work with the Port of Miami in Florida, while at work and on a brake i was hiding from the rain that we usually get here every day, and walking around day dreaming about fossils since I haven't hunted in years, when all of a sudden I see this weird looking flat spiral shape in a puddle next to a garbage bin, I thought to my self that there's no way that it might be a fossil, I must be losing it and seeing things,must be some sort of metal washer or garbage but decided to give it a better look... and there it was , an ammonite in the most unlikeliest places, I snatched it pretty fast and put it in my pocket. I thought someone had it as a pendant and lost it but after 5 mins I decided to go back and give it another look.... and there it was, another one and then a trilobite and after that a horn coral, there were broken pieces scattered all over the pavement that led to a garbage bin so of course I had to look inside and there were more broken and whole pieces of different sorts of Moroccan fossils that were wrapped at one point in a Moroccan newspaper. I eventually jumped in and picked up as much as I could, handfuls of broken shark teeth, some minerals, orthoceras, etc. Most of them were completely broken and beyond repair or restoration, a.k.a dust. Some even ended up in the gutter but managed to get my hand in there and save whatever I could. I took a photo of the best pieces, hope this makes it in the " Fossil of the Month " ;). " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 This has to be by far the coolest dumpster dive I ever heard of! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd Posted January 17, 2017 Author Share Posted January 17, 2017 Graphic content " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd Posted January 17, 2017 Author Share Posted January 17, 2017 " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd Posted January 17, 2017 Author Share Posted January 17, 2017 " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd Posted January 17, 2017 Author Share Posted January 17, 2017 " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aplomado Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 What are the odds!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 someone is still wondering where their package is!! Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 34 minutes ago, edd said: hope this makes it in the " Fossil of the Month " Definitely not a native find. Yet, your fortuitous acquisition hints at a sad story.... The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone Daddy Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 That is nuts. Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDudeCO Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 WOW! That is a great way to find a fossil! No prep needed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Crazy! Maybe some Moroccan dealer needed to get rid of extra baggage weight Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd Posted January 17, 2017 Author Share Posted January 17, 2017 I agree with that... " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramon Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Wow!!! One of the coolest thing I have ever heard of. I like the trilobites. "Without fossils, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the earth" - Georges Cuvier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBOB Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Crazy story! But love the fossils! Nice one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 That is shocking and horrifying... Who is throwing out fossils? Broken ones can be repaired as long as they are not completely disintegrated.. Shame! Good on you for thinking to go back and look! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Incredible ! Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 5 hours ago, sixgill pete said: someone is still wondering where their package is!! This was a FF members Secret Santa gift that has not arrived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sTamprockcoin Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 You wouldn't believe all the cool stuff I get out of dumpsters, and yes several times I've gotten nice specimens. I've even cried at what I've seen (boxes of fossils) being dumped into them ! “Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do not comprehend.” N. Steno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squali Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Good job ed. 20 years from now there will be a TFF new member that tells the story of his mom throwing away his old rocks in 2017. It's hard to remember why you drained the swamp when your surrounded by alligators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostedoddity Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 ??? I've found some pretty neat stuff dumpster diving, but never anything like this! Glad you could rescue the fossils for the most part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakuzi Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Someone's wife got sick of the fossil hoarding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 4 hours ago, sTamprockcoin said: You wouldn't believe all the cool stuff I get out of dumpsters, and yes several times I've gotten nice specimens. I've even cried at what I've seen (boxes of fossils) being dumped into them ! You mean this happens more often that we might think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 That would be crazy, if this happens more than this one time ... the area I found those, was the comercial export / import of the big trucks. I'm going back there to check it out on a regular basis from now on. " We're all puppets, I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Just crazy! Its amazing what goes in the trash...Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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