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siligut

(12,272 posts)
1. OW! I think if a sack of gold crashed down on me I would fall off of my ladder.
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 09:50 AM
Feb 2012

Very cool that the owner is sharing half of the find with the workers

ret5hd

(20,433 posts)
3. You see, THAT is the difference between people like you and people like me:
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 10:38 AM
Feb 2012

You see, I would throw it in my truck, yell "All of y'all can kiss my ass!!!" and THEN leave.

(admit it, you thought i was going to chastise you, didn't you?)

siligut

(12,272 posts)
4. Have you watched the HBO series Deadwood?
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 10:45 AM
Feb 2012

Great series about a gold mining town. At a Hearst owned mine, the miners were showered to gather the gold they had rubbed into the grease in their hair and strip searched to gather the gold nuggets they had stuck up their butt. My point is, you get in your truck with that gold, you have to keep going, because they would track you down.

yellowcanine

(35,692 posts)
10. The owner might have PUT the gold there to see if his workers were honest. You never know.
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 11:14 AM
Feb 2012

I read a story like that once. Of course it was a made up story so never mind.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
11. You were working with a crew
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 12:28 PM
Feb 2012

Even if no one else heard or saw it fall, you couldn't gather it all up, you took off like a bat out of hell. They would've figured it out.

yellowcanine

(35,692 posts)
8. I am guessing he wasn't there by himself. And maybe he had a bicycle. Kind of hard to hide
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 11:11 AM
Feb 2012

a sack of gold on a bicycle. And of course there are the questions, why did you leave in the middle of the day and leave a big hole in the ceiling? You could bash the side of your face with the crowbar and bleed a little to cover your tracks, I suppose. And then claim workman's comp.

Broderick

(4,578 posts)
9. This is a cool part of the story
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 11:13 AM
Feb 2012
Lange says he will keep half of the money for himself, while splitting half with the workers who made the discovery

Denninmi

(6,581 posts)
12. People hide cash. I found $600 in my mother's yarn bin once.
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 12:30 PM
Feb 2012

She had completely forgotten she had hidden it in there. She asked me to go down to the basement and try to find a skein of a certain color. Tucked up inside of it was her bankroll. She was pleasantly surprised to suddenly have an extra $600 that month. This was after my father died, she used to hide cash once in a while because he just wanted to blow it, he was the spender and she was the saver. If all of the "grocery money" for the month was gone, he couldn't blow it on something he didn't really need, so she made sure some of it disappeared every once in a while.

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