FREE: Gorgeous Ammonite Fossil

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Pictures do not do this justice. Under a lamp, you can see the luster of the colors of this prehistoric treasure.
I'm no expert on fossils, so I can't tell you much more than how I acquired it.
What I can to you is, this thing is COOL!

The shell itself is 1.5 inches across at it's widest point. It appears to be in good shape, and it looks really nice when you're looking at it closely underneath the lamp that I have on the corner of my desk. (Lamp is a piece of crap that I bought from Salvation Army for $2 if you were wondering.)

I got this fossil 15 years ago. I had just turned 21 and had come home drunk for the first time ever. (I think I had about 4 beers. Most of them ended up on the parking lot of Hardee's an hour later.) My friends dropped me off at my Mom's doorstep and then drove off in my truck. With my keys. (Designate a driver!)

This was before EVERYONE had a cell phone, I was screwed. I couldn't call Mom, my brother was God knows where, and I couldn't get inside without breaking things.

Now....

I lived in a rural area. But seeing that I was newly 21, and STUPID, I somehow figured that I should probably walk toward my friend Clint's house. (The dude that I knew that had my truck.) Clint lived approximately 4 miles away.

There was only one house in-between our farms as the crow flies. Zero houses if you took the roads.

Guess which route I decided to take....

Danny Miller's fishing cabin was right in the middle.

Long story short..

I found myself at the business end of a 12-gauge while peeing in his pond. (oops)

I agreed to mow his yard for the rest of the year if he'd let me live.
I ***** my pants. On one of the times that I mowed his yard, I found this fossil. He told me that it was worth thousands but I could keep it if I promised not to ***** myself in front of him, and not say anything if he did it in front of me. And then I could sell it after he died.
I kept my promise.