The true libertarian nightmare comes real. FEDS TOOK MY GOLD.
I wondering about this too. Like why, is it required by law or something?
follow up point what if you just took the gold and went to Mexico with it. It's from the civil war no one was looking for it
What a dumbass lol imagine not digging this up and melting it immediately
378 million in gold. Hide it, lay low, offload enough of it subtly over time to afford a boat, defect to Cuba with the rest.
it's like moving 85 people in terms of weight. Not easy, but definitely not totally impossible
Polish children pulled it off in wwII so I bet I could do it no sweat
What did he expect, them to give him a good boy trophy for best treasure hunter?
Yes.
He probably expected the FBI director to hold a press conference and say "Honorable detectorist Dennis Parada found an enormous gold horde. An effort to find the rightful owners - if any - will be made. If none are found honorable detectorist Dennis Parada will become quite a rich man. And we at the FBI are hereby awarding him - pardon the pun - a gold star..."
7 tons of gold is apparently worth a little under 378 million dollars. Imagine being so cucked, and giving that away to the Federal Bureau of Assassination lmao.
Look at this dude. He ain't in the business of physically excavating anything.
look americans are supposed to be enterprising people just hire 2 other dudes you know and take 10 bars each come onnn
I mean, that's probably what I'd do. Literally just drive over to Home Depot and offer a few day laborers the deal of their lives.
But I'm not the kind of brain genius that spends half his life searching the hills of Pennsylvania for Lost Union Gold. So what do I know?
never board a helicopter
secure the ministry of the Interior
never tell the feds about the civil war gold
its literally the feds gold, take a fuckin patsy to politely inform them about it. there's no law that says the government has to give you money for finding their stuff.
It’s definitely isn’t right. But these guys alerted a police organization to be a middle man for their treasure hunt. It makes 0 sense.
if it was underground how would you know how much there was, genius?
also why'd he willingly tell the fucking FBI goddamn narcbrained boomer
if it was underground how would you know how much there was, genius?
The theory was that a train was robbed over 150 years ago and the gold hidden somewhere in the area, then lost/forgotten. So, if you know how much gold was on the train when it was robbed, that's how much you'd expect to find in the treasure stash.
But also, if I'm a "treasure hunter" and I think I've stumbled across 7 tons of gold and my first impulse is to file a public record to that effect and turn the information over to the fucking cops... I'm sorry, bro. That one's on you.
why would the FBI even be in charge of a historical dig?
catchall federal pigs; idk if the treasury/mint has their own pigs
its not so much a history dig as recovering federal property, thats pig work
Yeah at least 5 different episodes of Scooby Doo are about this
I woulda quit my job and travelled the country stopping at pawn shops to sell a couple old pennies at a time when I’m low on cash
Melt it down, reform it into normal bars, sell it like normal, it's not like they put trackers in it
in reading the article, i think the issue is that the feds dug a huge hole and saying they didn't find anything. the documentation they've released about what happened at the dig site over the 2 day period has inconsistencies. the accusation being that maybe it's not that "the government" that took it, but a rogue faction absconded with it and that is being covered up, for purposes unknown.
to provide context and maybe a clue about what actually happened way back when, i think we should all watch a great scene from the opening of the 1994 JCVD documentary, Timecop
