If I found gold bars. No the fuck I didn’t
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I can't believe someone buried 49 gold bars over here!
Where did they even get 43 gold bars in the first place?
Oh well, I better go turn these 38 gold bars in to the police.
Police: o thx for the 13 gold bars!
Police: Hey, chief! Someone just handed in 8 gold bars!
Police chief to the press: The young man turned in 3 gold bars to us, what an example
Press: Nothing to report.
49 gold bars?!? 39 gold bars is a crazy thing to find digging. I wonder how much you get taxed when you find 29 gold bars. Would you report 19 gold bars? If I found 9 gold bars I think at most I'd be able to part with 1 of the 2 gold bars that I found.
There is absolutely no way I'd have turned those in.
Edit: I found the article, the lad may have a payout coming to him.
It is now held in Brussels as authorities investigate its legal ownership. Belgian law mandates a five-year waiting period for claimants; afterward, the find could be divided between Kobe and the property owner if no owner comes forward and it's not criminal money.
Probably a lot less suspicious than going to a bank trying to store 49 gold bars
Idk, I'd just hide them myself. Sell off a tiny bit at a time, keep working, invest in boring ass shit like index funds and when I get AML'd, I'd have a history of spending less than I earn to show. Hardest part would be finding a vendor to sell the gold to that's reputable and won't send goons to rob me, but also won't hit me with AML. I suspect I have a few options available to me, but since I do not own any gold bars, I have no real way to test my theory.
Hope he gets his due. I cannot fathom the mind that sees Fuck You-money and immediately thinks "oh gosh, I need to give this to a cop!" But I'm sure he meant well.
Same, but probably difficult to turn $10M in gold into spending money without someone noticing.
Yeah, if I found like a hundred thousand in cash, it wouldn’t get into a bank account, I’d just be buying groceries and retail purchases in cash for a long time, and saving the money I would have spent normally. Maybe asking places to make change so if the serial numbers get noted, things get spread about a bit.
hundred thousand in cash
groceries
In the U.S., that would get you enough food for weeks!
Seriously. Loaded up on groceries this weekend, and total cost for 1.75 carts was well over $600
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I'd keep working my day job and melt them into basic jewelry like rings and crosses and pawn them over time. Say I'm getting them at estate sales or something. Use the cash for day to day purchases, buy used cars, etc. Could probably start flipping other stuff to generate more income/muddy the waters in case anyone does look further into it. Gradually work lesser amounts of cash into my bank account. Wouldn't need to buy anything crazy because I have simple tastes.
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He wasn't alone when he found it. It was an entire construction team, building and digging on a municipally owned site which was publicly accessible and almost certainly monitored, if remotely.
There was no conceivable way to keep that find quiet under those circumstances.
So if he did manage to pinch off one, props to him.
I mean... Ten million can buy a LOT of assassins.
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while digging
See, this is why it's very important for men, and women, to dig. Wherever you are, home, beach, park, just have a bit of a dig. It's fun and free!
When I was a little kid, I started digging a hole in my back yard. I only stopped because my dad told me it was compromising the foundation of our house.
At the time, I was convinced I would find triceratops fossils ... Not sure where I got that idea.
Amazing. My brother and I once dug a hole in the backyard that was so deep that our mother bought us a playstation to get us to stop. Children really do yearn for the mines
Pfft, and let the gas company get all the spoils? Even if you don't find gold down there, you might find precious precious gas!
7^2 is a very pleasing number.
This is one of those things where it’s probably more hassle than it’s worth to keep them. Like, you can’t really do much with the gold on its own, you’d have to sell it, and you can’t exactly just take it to a pawn shop.
Like, you’d have to go to some big time gold dealer and then they’d be like “yah, cool, where the fuck did you get this? Do you have a bill of purchase? Is there a mark on here from who ever minted it? I’m going to have to tell the authorities about this, don’t want to be liable if it turns out you stole this or obtained it illegally”
Sure you could try and find a less than reputable buyer who won’t ask questions, but now you’re risking getting caught up in some organized crime nonsense assuming you can even find one without pre-existing contacts.
Better just to hand it over and be done with the mess. Hope there is some sort of official reward for doing it. Maybe get some money through doing interviews about it.
Melt it and make a bunch of gold rings. Pawn those a few at a time.
As a bonus, bind the races of Middle Earth to your will.
Darn it, I hate when the mortal races succumb to temptation!
Would have to go to thousands of pawnshops to sell off that many rings, and then just hope none of them talk to each other. Or no one looks in to the influx of suspiciously similar gold rings on the second hand market. Then find a plausible excuse for where all the money in your account came from when people start asking questions about it.
Just, a huge legal risk over all.
You're assuming pawn shops are way more scrupulous than they actually are.
Those look like at least 10oz bars, so 49x60,000 each is almost 3 million dollars.
Even if lawyers billed half a million, and you got to keep 1/3rd of it, you would still be up a half million.
The best lawer in the world can’t fabricate a legitimate chain of ownership or falsify an authentic minting stamp.
You sure? Gotta call Saul on this
I definitely would’ve absconded with that shit
Yes, we can confirm the delivery of 45 gold bars at our police department.
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Why the fuck would you give them to authorities?
Maybe it’s illegal, it’s vastly different from country to country but last time I checked finding treasure on your own property does not mean you own it 100%. Which i think is crazy but yea.
I remember when we could "find" treasure currently owned by other civilizations and throw it on a boat, take it home and just claim it was "found". Times change I guess.
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