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[quote="buck"][quote="sylvanmyst"]yes, please give the details on the Atlanta coin!!!!!
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So, I stayed up Monday night and waited for the 29th clue.  I got the clue at 3am, and I immediately knew the small park where the Atlanta coin was hidden.  I had searched the park at noon Monday, but didn't find the coin.  My wife was scared for me to go there alone, because it’s probably the biggest homeless area of the city.  She told me to take a baseball bat.  I took cash instead.

I was there at 3:45am, and the first thing I saw was an ambulance, a fire truck, and a guy lying in the middle of the road handcuffed.  My first thought was, “They’ve killed the guy that found the coin.”  As I was trying to find a place to park, I was approached by three scary men.  They chased my car around the block until I just decided to pull up next to the ambulance for safety.  If I had tried to legally park, I would've surely been mugged... my life taken, and my car stolen... because the nearest lot was a few blocks away down a long dark street.  So I negotiated a price with one of the homeless guys at my window to keep me safe while I went to the park.  "Lamont", my new escort, took me across the street and into the park.

I asked Lamont what had happened with the hand-cuffed guy laying in the road.  Lamont said, "When you live on the street, some things - even when you know them - you don't tell."  Wow.  A powerful message.

While I was doing all this, a white minivan pulled up and two 20-something guys hopped out while another waited in the get-away car.  The two of them saw me and told whoever was on the cell phone, "There's already someone here."  I went directly to the place where I thought the coin might be (based on my search earlier in the day).  It wasn’t there.  The other two guys walked past me to the close end of the park (near the ambulance).  I didn’t see them pick up the coin, but they both immediately sprinted back to their van.  Rats!  Two minutes too late.  If I hadn’t been in fear of losing my life, I would’ve had the coin.

I got out of there before the guy lying in the road, and it only cost me $10.  A bargain.

By the way, I'm sure Lamont was the one who told the previous poster that the coin had already been found.  I told him the whole story.  He was very disappointed to hear that someone had just walked away with $10,000 that was hidden "in my park".

The coin was hidden in a small park at the corner of Auburn Ave and Fort Street, next to the I-75/85 overpass.  If you know Atlanta, you know this is a scary place - even in the day time.   I don't know the name of the park, because the sign was missing.  The sign posts are there, but the 2'x4' panel that contains the park name had been stolen.  Obviously, someone was using it for a blanket, or something. In the little urban park, there's a curved architectural stone wall that leads to a small, circular fountain.  20 feet from the fountain is the MLK face sculpture without the eyes (from the clue: "the famous man with something mssng").  The coin was hidden somewhere near the fountain or the sculpture.  It wasn't there at noon on Monday, so it was placed within the 12 hours prior to the 29th clue.

Anyway, I guess the moral of the story is: Bring a friend and a get-away car, even if you have to split the profits.

By the way, I think this was a great promotional event by Dr Pepper.  I really look forward to the next one.  And I really hope that the next company won't be deterred by some of the negative comments on this board.   This was fun stuff.[/quote]

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