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'Roman haul' turns out to be TV show Detectorists prop

Two men who thought they had unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins had their dreams dashed when they discovered the coins were a prop for a TV sitcom.

Andy Sampson and Paul Adams had been metal detecting in a field on the Suffolk/Essex border when they found more than 50 "gold" coins with pottery.

Mr Sampson said his friend started "shouting and jumping around and dancing" after he found the "treasure".

However, it emerged the fake coins were a prop for the BBC show Detectorists.

Mr Sampson said the pair, who have only been metal detecting for a year, had spotted the farmer ploughing the field last summer, and got his permission to go out one evening to check it out.

"Paul kept running at me shouting, 'Roman gold!' and I thought, 'he's winding me up'," he said.

"He was floating across the top of the field rather than running through it. I wish I'd had a camera."

The pair went back to the furrow and found more than 50 gold coins with pottery, which they believed at the time could have been worth up to £250,000.

Mr Sampson said he immediately began working out how he would spend the money, with plans including paying off the mortgage, buying a new car and going on the trip of a lifetime.

However, he took the find back home and showed it to his neighbour, who was less enthusiastic about it.

Mr Sampson said his neighbour picked up the coins and immediately said "they're not real - there's something wrong with them".

'Got over' disappointment

The pair made some inquiries and found out the farm was being used as a filming location during the summer for BBC Four comedy Detectorists, which stars Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones.

It emerged the production crew had filmed a tractor pulling a plough through the ground, unearthing the coins as it went.

However, Mr Sampson said, "it had buried some as well", and they were the ones they found.

The men said they had finally "got over" their huge disappointment and it had not put them off the hobby.

Oops!

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/golf/101121390/break-dancing-streaker-jailed-after-wooing-golf-fans-at-boozy-pga-tour-event

Break dancing streaker jailed after wooing golf fans at boozy PGA Tour event

A new hazard that emerged at golf's Phoenix Open on the PGA Tour - a streaker who practised his shots, rolled nude in a bunker and pulled break dancing moves on the 17th fairway - has been jailed.

Usually the 16th at the Scottsdale course in Arizona is touted as the rowdiest hole in golf, as 20,000 alcohol fuelled fans cheer and boo the world's best golfers from a specially built grandstand.

But on Thursday the action moved to the 17th as Adam Stalmach, 24, entertained the fans with his one-wood with narry a security guard in sight.

His moves prompted the Scottsdale Police Department to throw the rule book at him. He pleaded guilty to one count of indecent exposure, was ordered to pay $1500 in fines, and spend five days in jail. 

Police warned those who decided to bare it all on the green would be arrested and charged with a class one misdemeanour, which can carry a maximum of six months' jail. Felony charges and sex-offender registration could be added to the scorecard, if police identified any witness in the crowd younger than 15 years-old.

Fighting, swimming in the lake and loud heckling are all variations of disorderly conduct, and also subject to arrest and appropriate criminal charges, police said.

Fans at No 17 stood to attention as Scottsdale Streaker galloped fully nude onto the fairway.

He practised his golf swing, did some break-dancing moves, and flung sand from a fairway bunker.

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Student, 21, flushed her 'emotional support' HAMSTER Pebbles down the toilet and drowned it after Spirit Airlines banned it from traveling with her (and now she's suing)


- Belen Aldecosea was flying home to Florida from college with hamster Pebbles
- She said that when she called ahead, Spirit airlines staff assured her that her emotional support pet, which had been certified by her doctor, could fly 
- But when she arrived, she was informed that rodents weren't allowed to fly
- She claims Spirit staff suggested she could let it free or flush it down the toilet
- With her flight boarding, the 21-year-old felt she 'didn't have any other options' 
- Spirit strenuously deny any employee ever suggested she should kill her pet
- Aldecosea is now considering suing the airline for emotional trauma 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5367667/Student-killed-hamster-Spirit-said-fly.html

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SHOP 'SHAGGERS' SACKED

Tesco staff caught in Superstore office romp marched out of store.

 

A TESCO manager was marched out of a superstore in front of colleagues after he was filmed romping in a back office with a blonde teenage member of staff.

Fresh produce manager Neville Fox, 35, and a 19-year-old went at it in the office on Saturday evening thinking no one could see their tryst.

But, as The Sun reported today, a group of youngsters spotted him performing a sex act on her and filmed it through a window.

The girl cried as she was escorted off the premises on Monday alongside a “distraught” Neville, according to witnesses.

The pair have “both left the business” after the footage emerged, a source confirmed.

Speaking at his home Neville told The Sun: “I’m not going to say anything. I’m not going to comment.

“Tesco’s will comment as they see fit and that’s where we stand on it.

“It’s not true I’ve been sacked. I’m not going to say anything else.”

Neville’s 54-year-old long-term partner is a manager at another Tesco store.

She has now deleted pics of him from her Facebook profile.

One of the witnesses to the scene at the Tesco Superstore in East Anglia, told The Sun: “It was bloody hilarious.

“We knew straight away it was the manager – and someone who looked like they were there for a pay rise. It was so funny.

“The manager is known in the town so we knew who he was.

“Word in his Tesco has got round and the whole staff are p***ing themselves over it.

“After we filmed the video, we threw a pebble at the window. They didn’t bat an eyelid though, so we just walked off.

“They didn’t look over at the window and never noticed we were there in the slightest.”

Tesco said: “We are taking this issue very seriously and launched an immediate investigation.”

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I wonder how many club card points they got for this then?  :lol:

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12 hours ago, AvfcRigo82 said:

Fair play Nev! 

Although reading that article it says his partner is 54! Obviously fancied a change!

Sad that is was filmed and it is now in the public domain. This sort of stuff happens all the time in the workplace but nowadays with social media it can ruin lives. 

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I'm honestly pretty conflicted about whether a] they should have published that story at all, and b] whether they should have named him. I can just about see an argument for a, given the disparity in roles and the fact that this seems to have happened at work,during a shift (though I think that's weak) but I can't see an argument for b, which seems calculated to humiliate people who have no 'blame' for anything (his wife and family members - especially since they needlessly printed his wife's age). 

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23 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

I'm honestly pretty conflicted about whether a] they should have published that story at all, and b] whether they should have named him. I can just about see an argument for a, given the disparity in roles and the fact that this seems to have happened at work,during a shift (though I think that's weak) but I can't see an argument for b, which seems calculated to humiliate people who have no 'blame' for anything (his wife and family members - especially since they needlessly printed his wife's age). 

It's called the press.

Where they largely encourage joe public to 'sell their' story based on any old bollocks at times. Once they get the story they publish it adding more made up twists and bullshit.

Okay, the two shaggers where wrong for the gross misconduct carried out absolutely and the people passing by either saw an opportunity to make a quick buck, or possibly even 'revenge if you will', or a combination of the two. Who knows?

If it is such an open window view to all the public you'd have thought they would have drew the blinds to have did this in broad daylight surely?

How do they know his wifes age too? There is possibly more to this than we know.

But yes, wrong to have outlandishly hung them out to dry how they have. That type of shit can ruin lives as rightly stated already.

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Passenger drops farts so putrid pilot is forced to make emergency landing 

Four passengers were removed from the plane after a fight broke out over the man’s flatulence

A pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after a row caused by a passenger who refused to stop farting. The passenger apparently kept breaking wind on board a Transavia Airlines flight from Dubai to Amsterdam Schiphol last weekend.

The two Dutchmen sitting next to him didn’t take very well to his flatulence, but the unashamed man was apparently not put off and refused to hold back. Members of the crew on the Dutch low-cost airline were apparently less than sympathetic and refused to do anything about it. Despite a warning from the pilot, a fight between the men then broke out, causing the flight to be diverted to Vienna Airport . Police boarded the plane with dogs and removed two sisters and the two men after the pilot made a report about ‘passengers on the rampage’...

 

http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/17/passenger-drops-farts-so-putrid-pilot-is-forced-to-make-emergency-landing-7320242/

Here I was thinking the "Dutch Oven" was something they'd be OK with...

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Saw this from a few days ago.

A botched burglary in China... with unexpected results.

Shanghai Police have released this footage of two would-be thieves in China attempting to break into a shop-front in the early hours of Wednesday morning...with unexpected results.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-china-43079082/a-botched-burglary-in-china-with-unexpected-results

 

:crylaugh::crylaugh::crylaugh:

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2 hours ago, mjmooney said:

Man dressed in a bull onesie tried to burn down ex-lover's home with pasta sauce

It's a common occurence -  there will always be problems if you give a red ragu to a bull.

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