From: utzoo!dciem!mmt
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: dowsing
Article-I.D.: dciem.182
Posted: Sun Feb 20 12:06:17 1983
Received: Sun Feb 20 13:45:04 1983
References: spanky.213

We had a next-door neighbour once who was a master plumber. On one
occasion his gang had a job that required digging up an old drain in
a building without plans; new concrete had been laid over the whole floor.
They had no real means of telling where it went, except sampling
trenches. As a joke, he tried dowsing for it with copper pipe as
the indicator. He claims that he found the track zig-zagging across
the concrete, and when they dug there, they found the drain. No
extra mess in the new concrete.
  It's an anecdote, and probably embellished in the telling, but it
changed this man's opinion of dowsing from thinking it idiocy to
believing in it.
		Martin Taylor