> I'm bored and can't resist. Did he find the rocks by dowsing?
>
> Mike Conner

Mike:

I won't say for sure if he uses dowsing to locate his "treasures," but I do
know that his abandoned property claim has been supposedly filed on land
currently held by the (Howard) Hughes Co. and is scheduled for million
dollar home development.  If he can make that angle work, he might be more
sane than I was lead to believe.  We all had a good laugh.  His story was as
good as the lady who wanted me to verify she was in possession of a
petrified monkey skull (with intact brain) she recovered from a limestone
formation of Jurassic age.  No matter what you say, they won't believe you.
Its good to develop and keep a sense of humor in our profession, and would
probably make for a good symposium topic......