Buried treasure.... BURIED TREASURE!!

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I can't believe nobody's started a thread on the most thrilling news story of the last 40 years:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=709146

BURIED FUCKING TREASURE!!

― andy --, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

Despite the dispute over who controls the money, the friends appear to agree on what they should do with at part of it: putting some of it into Ingham's rock band, called Till We Die. Both say the band, which Crebase described as "aggressive rock," can make it big with some help.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

I SMELL PUBLICITY STUNT

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

"I'd rather burn the money than cause problems between me and my friends," Crebase said.

that's very sweet.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

The Wendy's finger lady's debut CD comes out on May 5th, too.

Mmmm, I'm too mesmerized to be cynical. Just when I thought I'd give up treasure hunting, now I want to go more than ever. I just wish they'd make a metal detector disguised as a 1 Wood, so I wouldn't look like such a kook.

― andy --, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Ingham's rock band, called Till We Die. Both say the band, which Crebase described as "aggressive rock," can make it big with some help.

OMG as soon as I saw the picture, I said, "those guys are a nu metal band".

― wetmink (wetmink), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/NYGB10704271959.jpeg

― wetmink (wetmink), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

nu-metal band digging up shrubbery...
if it were a publicity stunt they would have had a cooler reason for digging in the garden, like they were digging their own graves!

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

"The truth was, I handed him the shovel, I told him where to start digging."

Delegation has it's own rewards!

― andy --, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

somebody found thousands and thousands of $$$ worth of notes buried next to a railway station near where i used to live. twice! nobody claimed it after 2 years so they got to keep it.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

this is a stunt to promote national treasure coming out on dvd!!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

Was that the money at Balaclava station Jim, or another one? I know money was found there (near my place) but I thought that was some crim's haul.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 28 April 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

TREASURE TROVE!

(Only because I'm about to take my Property exam next week will I say that the rule with lost property found in the soil is usually that it is awarded to the land-owner not the finder... meaning that asshat in the front of that pic is SOL)

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 28 April 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

yeah that one. it was indeed a crim's haul, but nobody came forward to claim it!

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 28 April 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

Phillip: Well, while we're waiting, why don't we search for treasure?
Terrance: Oh. Good idea. Let's search for treasure.
[Phillip looks around, but Terrance ends up looking at his feet]
Scott: [arrives] What are you idiots doing?!
Terrance: We're looking for treasure!
Scott: Is that some kind of metaphor for a a kind of search that can't be described?!
Phillip: Nnno, we're searching for treasure.

― neurothèque, Thursday, 28 April 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

BOOTY!

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Thursday, 28 April 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

it is awarded to the land-owner not the finder... meaning that asshat in the front of that pic is SOL)

unfortunately, the article states that it's his yard, therefore get ready for some shitty music!

― Amon (eman), Thursday, 28 April 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

I'll bet the Freemasons put it there.

― All of the time, and none of the art (dymaxia), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Don't you wish the Gideons did this sort of thing?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Do they pronounce Plaistow as Plaaahstow in New Hampshire?

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

the yard was scanned with equipment that detects objects

eyes?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

SEND IN GEOPHYS!?!?!??!?!!

Wait, what is this thread about, anyway? I only popped up coz someone mentioned freemasons.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

oh no! it was a hoax!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/29/buried.treasure.ap/index.html

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

My brother once bought a metal detector off eBay.

Me: What the fuck are you going to do with a metal detector?
Him: Detect metal!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

xpost -- A Stupid Plan

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

i guess it won't all go to their aggressive rock band after all...

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

It could go to their emo rock band in prison.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

There's a moral somewhere in here.

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 April 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

"Don't talk about your shitty band in your 15 seconds of fame."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

yeah, we only need a Rocky & Bullwinkle-esque terrible pun to wrap it all up now...

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Anglo-Saxon gold hoard discovered

A 55-year-old metal detectorist has unearthed the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found, archaeologists said.
The staggering discovery, on private farmland in Staffordshire, will redefine perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England, experts predict.
Terry Herbert, from Burntwood, Staffordshire, came across the hoard as he searched a field near his home with his trusty 14-year-old detector.
Experts said the collection of more than 1,500 pieces - which will be officially classified by a coroner as treasure - is unparalleled in size and may have belonged to Saxon royalty. The hoard, believed to date back to the seventh century, contains around 5kg of gold and 2.5kg of silver, far bigger than previous finds - including the Sutton Hoo burial site.
It may take more than a year to value the collection and, given its scale, the financial worth of the hoard cannot be estimated.
Leslie Webster, former keeper at the British Museum's Department of Prehistory and Europe, said: "This is going to alter our perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England as radically, if not more so, as the Sutton Hoo discoveries. (It is) absolutely the equivalent of finding a new Lindisfarne Gospels or Book of Kells."

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:19 (sixteen years ago)

And to think people LOL at saddoes with metal detectors

― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:20 (sixteen years ago)

nine months pass...

1500 pieces?

baby stuff.

Man finds 52000 3rd century coins in Somerset

― Has admitted to being Irish in order to have sex (darraghmac), Friday, 23 July 2010 00:47 (fifteen years ago)

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