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Oak Lake waters recede, revealing guns
Lincoln Journal Star ^ | Jan 14, 2013 | Nicholas Bergin

Posted on 01/14/2013 12:32:50 PM PST by posterchild

As the worst drought since 1956 gripped the nation last year, lakes and ponds slowly receded, revealing decades worth of dropped and discarded fishing tackle, pop cans and all sorts of flotsam.

At Oak Lake in Lincoln, the debris included at least two guns.

A person walking along the edge of the lake last summer spied a suspicious item and called Lincoln police, who found a handgun rusted beyond recognition.

“That thing could have been in there for 50 years for all we know,” said Sgt. Ben Miller.

After that gun turned up, officers Kevin Hinton and Jen Mullendore couldn’t help but wonder what other secrets the mud may hold, Miller said.

They came up with a plan, and on Nov. 14, four members of Lincoln Police's Northwest Team spent 10 hours walking the exposed lake bed with metal detectors.

“We dug several hundred holes that day," Miller said. "Anything that was giving us a significant tone, we dug up."

Ninety percent of what they found was fish hooks and pop cans, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at journalstar.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunlake; metaldetecting
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1 posted on 01/14/2013 12:32:54 PM PST by posterchild
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Hmmmm. Were those the guns that were lost when the canoe sank? ;)


2 posted on 01/14/2013 12:35:14 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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When guns are outlawed...only lakes will have guns....


3 posted on 01/14/2013 12:35:55 PM PST by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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Not a clue where this actually is located.


4 posted on 01/14/2013 12:40:17 PM PST by Ditter
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40 hours of union government pay (probably OT) picking up tin cans & fish hooks.

Was any of this on private property?


5 posted on 01/14/2013 12:43:13 PM PST by Cold Heart
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“”Anything that was giving us a significant tone, we dug up.”

Ninety percent of what they found was fish hooks and pop cans, he said.”

“Significant tone” from a fish hook? These guys have no clue how to use a metal detector!


6 posted on 01/14/2013 12:45:54 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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Since it is the Lincoln Journal Star, in Lincoln, Nebraska and the article says Oak Lake in Lincoln, I have a guess.


7 posted on 01/14/2013 12:46:06 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Yep, that’s where I lost them.


8 posted on 01/14/2013 12:46:36 PM PST by BO Stinkss
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After that gun turned up, officers Kevin Hinton and Jen Mullendore couldn’t help but wonder what other secrets the mud may hold, Miller said.


Gee. I thought that when they found the fishing tackle. Maybe there are some hammers and tools down there as well. These guys treat rusted guns like they were dropped from a UFO or something. They are just one of many tools that break, wear out, or are accidentally dropped into the lake.

Sheesh.


9 posted on 01/14/2013 12:48:42 PM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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Oh wow, I'm so scared . . . not!

It's not "rusted beyond all recognition" - pretty sure it's an ancient Crosman BB gun, probably a 150 or 106, with the barrel rusted off, just the air chamber still in place:

That's why they never mention the caliber or make -- it's a big nothing.

What a non-story.

10 posted on 01/14/2013 12:48:56 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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***Ninety percent of what they found was fish hooks and pop cans, he said.***

LOL More like beer cans!


11 posted on 01/14/2013 12:49:29 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
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I wonder if the number of unsolved homicides = number of weapons found :)


12 posted on 01/14/2013 12:50:31 PM PST by SparkyBass
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Not a clue where this actually is located.

Less than half of states have a town named Lincoln. 24 total. That should make it easier to figure out the location.

;o)

13 posted on 01/14/2013 12:51:28 PM PST by NautiNurse (BOHICA)
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Skeleton found in Mountain Lake when waters recede

http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/181168


14 posted on 01/14/2013 12:53:14 PM PST by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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“We dug several hundred holes that day,” Miller said. “Anything that was giving us a significant tone, we dug up.”
Ninety percent of what they found was fish hooks and pop cans, he said.


Your tax dollars at work. Someone’s tax dollars at least.


15 posted on 01/14/2013 12:53:17 PM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: nevergore

My reaction to this story – wow! That really does happen ping!

Of course there was an episode of Alaskan State troopers where they went out to a call of some hunters in distress in a boat – where the lost all their guns in the process….


16 posted on 01/14/2013 1:05:16 PM PST by Voice of Reason88 ( Freedom is never lost all at once - Edmund Burke)
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Lincoln Nebraska, state capitol.


17 posted on 01/14/2013 1:12:34 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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Let’s see... “Oak Lake?” In “Lincoln!” That explains it. It’s in California! Or is that Nebraska...or...?

Anyway, those boring folks were telling the truth after all, eh?


18 posted on 01/14/2013 1:36:07 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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For THAT somebody calls the cops? What a weenie!


19 posted on 01/14/2013 1:55:00 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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The boating accident that claimed all my guns was in really, really deep water ... unfortunately.


20 posted on 01/14/2013 2:01:40 PM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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