Negodki: Are they radioactive?

Deadend: Well, there's a happy thought I also hadn't considered. Surely,
you're joking. Right?

Negodki: I'm joking, but you never know. I knew someone who made a set of
darts out of "spent" uranium, not realizing that it was still radioactive.
Don't worry about it. There's nothing in a winery, or in that area of
California, to create such a problem. On the other hand, if your analogue
watch goes crazy every time you get near the corks, or if your geiger
counter is trying to keep time with a bubbler on steroids....

Negodki: Did you happen to notice if they had a Lugano destemmer hanging
around looking for a good home?

Deadend: Yeah, my thoughts exactly, also. I alwasy like to keep a couple
hundred in cash in my pocket as you never know. If I had stumbled upon
this place, I would have poked around a lot more and would have made
an offer on a crusher/destemmer, a nicer press (a bladder press would
be sweet), well, ANYTHING I could use at home. And this hobby year
after year seems to be becoming more of an obsession...

I had something similar happen. There was a "local" winery (not a very good
one) that I passed on my monthly trips to the city. I kept meaning to stop
in, because I knew they were liquidating SOME of their supplies, but first I
was too busy, and then I never saw any cars there, and assumed it was
closed. I finally stopped by, and found the place was completely empty!
They'd gone out of business, and fire-saled everything for about 10 cents on
the dollar. I could have had tanks, destemmers, crushers, bottles. H*ll, I
could have opened up a winery!