Man digging a swimming pool in his garden in France discovers gold worth $800,000

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-finds-gold-garden-france/

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DScratch@sh.itjust.works · 118 pts · 283d (7 replies)

The fact we know about this means he fucked up.

You win the lottery?

Shut

The

Fuck

Up

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 282d (4 replies)

Very few things in life are made worse by not talking.

chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 282d (2 replies)

Definitely talk to your doctor if there’s blood in your urine!

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 282d

Yes, maybe that. And in trusted personal relationships.

But when it comes to the government you shut the fuck up.

Because every day is shut the fuck up friday.

SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 282d

And yo butt!

varyingExpertise@feddit.org · 3 pts · 282d

Keep your cards close with strangers, show your hand to allies, and let your enemies glimpse the deck you want them to see.

MTK@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 282d (1 reply)

Isn't that a terrible idea?

When finding huge sums of cash/gold whatever, isn't it illegal in most places to not report it?

So best case scenario is that you find it and no one else is looking for it and you carefully use it over years as to not raise a falg for your local tax agency or bank.

Worst case scenario is that you found something stolen and eventually the police finds you and you get caught up in a much worse crime?

DScratch@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 282d

Talk to a lawyer.

Don’t tell your friends, or the papers, or anyone you don’t need to.

DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 84 pts · 283d (12 replies)
  1. store thats shit in a bank's vault, immediately.

  2. move properties, because that one is gonna be burgled whether the gold is still in the premises or not.

zwerg@feddit.org · 47 pts · 283d (8 replies)

FFS, give the man a chance to enjoy his new swimming pool first!

muffedtrims@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 283d (7 replies)

800k can buy several swimming pools.

Edit: fat fingered grammer

Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 283d (6 replies)

explain how

muffedtrims@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 283d (5 replies)

Money is exchanged for goods and services. A service some companies provide is digging and installing swimming pools.

kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 283d (1 reply)

Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 283d

Jfc

Gsus4@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 282d

'tis like watching a tennis match between a frog and a tree

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 283d (1 reply)

I don't get it, explain simpler!

BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 282d

Give money get pool

SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 282d (2 replies)

Found treasures are likely property of the state, possibly with some small share awarded to the finder.

Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 282d (1 reply)

Not in France apparently:

"Ownership of a treasure belongs to the one who finds it on their own property,"

SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 282d

Ah, interesting. I've heard the opposite about one of their neighbours, perhaps Germany.

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 50 pts · 283d (5 replies)

Once when I moved into another flat, I found an old typewriter in a dark corner. I still keep the thing. Next year it gets 100 years old.

Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 283d (4 replies)

Congratulations, next year it becomes self aware!

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 283d (2 replies)

This guy was a yokai all along!

dubyakay@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 282d (1 reply)

Thing looks like a hybrid of a typewriter and a cash register.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 282d

He's from Sesame Street. "Noo-nuh-noo-nuh-noo..."

Stamau123@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 282d

This one's my favorite

mjr@infosec.pub · 43 pts · 283d (5 replies)

Blimey. I was expecting it to be stolen but they say the bars had unique numbers, so it seems its owner buried it and then someone sold the property without realising what it contained.

pulsey@feddit.org · 31 pts · 283d (1 reply)

or died?

throws_lemy@lemmy.nz · 33 pts · 283d

Most likely, and the owner forgot to tell their kids that they had buried gold.

MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 283d (2 replies)

This is how we get angry Leprechaums…

dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 283d (1 reply)

Leprechaums

Aren’t those the cheap Temu versions of Leprechauns? I heard they arrive broken; if they arrive at all.

MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 282d

The Labiabas?

RaoulDuke85@piefed.social · 12 pts · 283d (5 replies)

Too bad he didn't find a frozen caveman.

prettybunnys@piefed.social · 11 pts · 283d (2 replies)

then we coulda wheezed some juUICEEEE

RaoulDuke85@piefed.social · 7 pts · 283d

Buuuudy

Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 282d

Don't wheeze the ju-uice!

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 283d

(After he learns to communicate in a modern language)

"So, have humans gotten any better yet?"

is shown the news

"Re-freeze me. Now."

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 282d

frozen frenchman

markz@suppo.fi · 11 pts · 283d

man I wish

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 283d

He can use the gold to pay for the pool. Bold financing plan.

pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 282d

$800000 worth of gold is only 200 oz rn

Hirom@beehaw.org · 4 pts · 283d

That's a great ad for anyone selling pools.