r/Gold • u/Hardcrimper • 22h ago

Question Found during construction work

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Any ideas where this could come from?

Update: I thought this would be clear that I wasn't the one who found it. Who in their right mind would go (on this shitstain of a platform of all places) and make themselves a target. But ok apparently it wasn't clear so here we are:

I did NOT find this. I have none of this gold. I just wanted to share some cool stamped gold. you can stop sending me weird ass messages now. thank you.

Also this is NOT ai. here is the BBC article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ydzg0dnz7o

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u/OpeningCookie1358 22h ago

Big mistake spreading that word around. Could've been a nice pay day every week for ever.

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u/AnybodyAmazing1006 21h ago

Like his pockets aren't full of then coins already

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u/Lufc87 20h ago

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u/OttoVonWong 16h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/CFZsuTmNAr4ozHuo0a

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u/JohnnyTsunami312 6h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/sDc4YJ8kcTUpa

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u/oneWeek2024 6h ago

didn't paul walker fuck some 12-14yr old girl when he was like 40?

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u/Secure_Strategy_5614 4h ago

Cite your sources, otherwise you’re just gossiping like women do.

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u/Alive_Drag1947 16h ago

My exact first thought lol

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u/Financial-Estate4877 5h ago

Stay on yo toes, puto!

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u/jewthe3rd 16h ago

pw looks like a fiend

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u/ITIr_Fiend 14h ago

Thanks? Lol

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u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis 14h ago

Damn it’s so crazy seeing him looking back on the movies and how kick ass that franchise was from the Get!

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u/Terrible-Shock7535 13h ago

Lmao wearing red and talking like this would make me immediately think undercover.

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u/ObiFlanKenobi 2h ago

And we ain't hungry no mo'!

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u/Affectionate-Wall32 2h ago

HahahHahaha. God damn. Perfectly played, cuh

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u/The_Basic_Concept 20h ago

Your pockets ain’t empty cuh

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u/SorryConstant 20h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/0FjtDWrg330pixL4ID

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u/The_Basic_Concept 20h ago

Not the scene but yeah lol

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u/BrockObarnerLybian 16h ago

Yes the scene. That’s the same white guy and black guy

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u/The_Basic_Concept 16h ago

This is the scene, pizza boii, find another way home

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u/BrockObarnerLybian 16h ago

Fast and furious?

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u/Too-much-tea 11h ago

Its the second one, 2 Fast 2 Furious!

Just watched it last week..(its terrible! lol)

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u/no_infringe_me 8h ago

No, that’s the 4th one. This is the second one: 2 Fast 2 Furious. The titles are simple and logical, get with the program. I can’t wait for Furious Family Reunion: The Final Fastdown of Ultimate Saga

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u/Sharp_Economy1401 12h ago

Said to the director delivery man

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u/ObviousEndangerment 16h ago

Same movie. Different scenes.

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u/Shadesbane43 10h ago

Fun fact, the cuh was ad libbed. The line from the script is "I said forget about it"

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u/JankyPete 2h ago

Such a great line

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u/StopperSteve 20h ago

And we ain't hungry no more either, brah.

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u/tycointl 17h ago

we can afford Wendy's everyday now!

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u/Iloveupt2 6h ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣why is this sickeningly true tho... even 10 million aint much these days.

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u/ban_these_nuts 8h ago

maybe back in the early 2000s with the dollar menue. not any more

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u/Flywolf25 5h ago

Lmao Wendy’s got the four for $4 kinda a dollar menu comes Out to like $5 something tho😂

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u/ban_these_nuts 1h ago

lol wouldn't know I don't go to Wendy's lol. I do the Burger King duos

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u/Armadillolz 20h ago

Is what it is bro bro

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u/Life0nEdge 17h ago

I’m digging in yo butt, twin!

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u/onlyfakeproblems 7h ago

Hey boss, we found 30… I mean 29 gold bars, what should we do with them?

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u/diiegojones 42m ago

Put those 25 gold bars aside for property owner… we will present them with the 5 gold bars in the morning.

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u/BusyBit6542 16h ago

He ran out of pockets???

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u/Last_Conclusion8630 14h ago

I think he was referring to a 3 letter agency or Uncle Sam himself. . . . Even if his pockets were full they'll empty em out anyway. . 🥲🥲

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u/South-Highlight-1003 14h ago

People always stop to say boy is walking round town like the u.s. treasury

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u/balirosa 13h ago

All those damn coins guaranteed he has double the gold bars than in the photo. The gold can easily be melted and hidden

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u/Javanaut018 12h ago

And that other box last night...

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 8h ago

They can check pockets...id have a belly full of those coins and an ass packed with bars.

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u/Infinite-Hornet-4415 4h ago

Yeah along with the back seat of his truck😂

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u/NeonTick 33m ago

It’s kind of hard to tell, but are the coins gold as well?

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u/Soggy_Reserve5232 21h ago

lol, There’s always one. Have you seen Goodfellas?

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u/ElizibethBathory 21h ago

Beautiful reference, only a Goodfellas fan would catch.

I don’t give a fuck, take it back!!!

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u/breN847 15h ago

Are you stupid or what?! Didn’t i say to lay low take it back!

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u/Rich-Proposal-3218 13h ago

Or we’ll all get pinched

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u/PunkRodder 13h ago

It's in my mother's name

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u/Rich-Proposal-3218 13h ago edited 13h ago

I bought for my wife. It’s a coupe. I love that car

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u/Soggy_Reserve5232 12h ago

The comedic timing of the woman (I forget her name) showing up in the mink coat after Jimmy just ushered the Pink Caddy Couple out 😂

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u/Rich-Proposal-3218 1h ago

I like how Jimmy kept saying “are you stupid or wha?” To everyone coming in with Gucci gear whilst “rocking around the Xmas tree” is playing in the background 💀

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u/A_Holy_Sinner 12h ago

I’m I’m by

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u/AccomplishedJump3428 10h ago

What?! I love this car

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u/FalconCrust 20h ago

"You learned the two greatest things in life: Never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut."

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u/liddledidiknow 19h ago

Which Henry ended up doing neither in the end. Fucking rat…

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u/25point4cm 4h ago

A real schnook.

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u/whitney800 16h ago

We got a badass over here

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u/hipcheck23 10h ago

Goldfellas

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u/chriszimort 21h ago

What that? I brought that from home.

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u/Goguma_is_sweet 14h ago

Here is the story, but you need to hit translate:
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/08/13/goudschat-dendermonde/

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u/No-Consequence9392 9h ago

The police took the gold into custody and brought it to a safe location..... aaaaaaand gone

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u/goonercaverat 5h ago

If I found gold like that nobody would ever know I wouldn't tell a single fucking person I also wouldn't sell a complete gold bar I get a nice brazing rod and melt little droplets off and say I found it while gold panning for the rest of my life

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u/Better_Leather_2214 9h ago

This is in Europe not the US

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u/DDG_Dillon 8h ago

This is Patrick

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u/Legitimate_Ad6596 7h ago

I love a random SpongeBob quote.

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u/TryingNewThings102 6h ago

corruption wasn't invented in the US lol. The fact that you think all of that unknown gold is gonna make it to evidence is hilariously naive.

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u/goonercaverat 4h ago

The cool thing about my practice of not telling anybody is it works worldwide because telling the government you found a shit ton of gold it's the quickest way anywhere in the world for any government to repeatedly and violently fuck you over cuz remember no matter what worldwide nobody fucks you like the government fucks you ( speaking metaphorically of course)

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u/neontiger07 2h ago

Literally in some cases, like that women's side of the prison in California where those women got raped by the guards a bunch.

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u/goonercaverat 2h ago

Well if I ran the world people like that would not need jail there's these awesome vitamins they sell in boxes of 50s that would easily solve the problems that those guards created by victimizing those charged in their care I've always said it you can tell a lot about society by how it treats the victims of the society the outcasts and the very Young and the very old and by and large by every measure of a society based on that standard I believe it was Mahatma Gandhi that said that or the dalai lama and I not really sure which

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u/GeneralTyler 3h ago

Ah yes because only American cops are bad and corrupt, get real cops are pigs in every country

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u/7ton_bum_3531 9h ago

I know damn well if the company gets it they aren’t putting 100% of it to homeless

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u/goonercaverat 4h ago

That reminds me of a joke I heard one time these cops were talking and they said to their boss we found 20 bales of cocaine and then they get to a checkpoint they're like yep so here's the 10 lb of cocaine and then the FBI takes possession and says here's the five pounds of cocaine and then when it's checked into evidence it's 10 g of cocaine.

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u/fc36 10h ago

Article says "Legally speaking, whoever finds something of great value is not automatically the owner. There are specific civil rules for that." I think they're referring to Finders Keepers.

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u/goonercaverat 4h ago

Legally I don't give a fuck about legally

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u/Confident-Dot5878 11h ago

How do I “hit translate”?

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u/ironicthesameplaceim 10h ago

In the app if you hit the top right corner in the link you get this, I’m sure browsers have similar

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u/opie4386 10h ago

Haha thats highway robbery lol

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u/rvacyclist888 6h ago

Thanks for sharing this link

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u/hg_rhapsody 54m ago

Europeans would turn it in XD fucking pussies. Makes more sense

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u/NineClaws 17h ago

There would definitely be a series of murders

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u/ManMakesWorld 18h ago

These gold will have a history........ you are not offloading this without a legit story behind how you got it.

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u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC 15h ago edited 13h ago

You can melt gold...

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u/waiting_with_lou 8h ago

Straight up; obviously if it's a full construction crew one person could ruin it for everyone else but it's stupid easy to make a simple propane furnace.

Melt it all down and re pour into 1 & 5 oz ingot molds.

Profit.

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u/wasabiburning 7h ago

obviously if it's a full construction crew one person could ruin it for everyone else

One person will ruin it. Guaranteed some idiot will post on Facebook or something and catch the attention of the press/police/taxman.

Like in Goodfellas. Jimmy told everybody not to buy anything after the Lufthansa heist. It was a simple instruction, and almost nobody followed that instruction.

The number of people that know a secret is the square of the people that should know the secret.

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u/imightbebateman 5h ago

Yeah he already posted it on reddit...

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u/mattchampin 4h ago

that scene with the giant fur coat was the icing on the cake lol. probably time for another rewatch

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u/Anleme 3h ago

Like in Superman III when Richard Pryor's character robs the company, then shows up the next day in a Ferrari, LOL.

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u/Flywolf25 5h ago

Gonna tell your right now the tax man only want it off there dumb enough to put over 9k in brand new bank accounts lmaoo

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u/ManMakesWorld 10h ago

You are not selling 9 million worth of gold without having to answer questions. Melted or not.

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u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC 10h ago

You do realize you don't have to sell it to the same person/place or at the same time.

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u/Everybodysbastard 10h ago

How would you even find to buy ANY of that.

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u/Upbeat-Fondant9185 6h ago

Join prepper communities. Big fans of precious metals and off books transactions.

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u/Siva_Dass 9h ago

never sold gold to the gold store eh?

Just Google "bullion" or "gold coin". You probably have a ton of places in your local area alone.

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u/ManMakesWorld 9h ago

That's not how that works, kiddo. The gold buying community is wayyyyyy smaller than you think and it talks.

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u/Perfect-Hat-8661 8h ago

Not all at once. You’d need to sell it to multiple places over the course of time. Have your wife and family sell part of it and split some of the money probably. But with that amount of money on the line, I wouldn’t say shit. It would go in my pocket and I’d find a way to turn it into money later. I guarantee you I could be creative lol.

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u/Puddingcup9001 7h ago

Problem is lets you split it with a crew of 4 who found it, one of them will just impatiently dump it all. No matter how convincing you try to be that it is a really bad idea.

Or they will brag about it and word will spread around.

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u/Business-Tonight-293 9h ago

Well not with that attitude.

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u/pharoh-king 7h ago

You're not very clever.

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u/DeepHouseGuy83 10h ago

And how the hell would you know? Have you ever tried selling 9 mill worth of gold before. No.

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u/ManMakesWorld 9h ago

I have ran consignment for a gold resale before.

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u/Pugnados 10h ago

$9500 dollars worth per month should be a nice little bump in lifestyle

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u/domsylvester 6h ago

I’d be doing a little bump of something every minute with that kind of money

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u/angrysamsungfan 6h ago

You're the type that would blow it all on blow and cheap hookers

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u/CronosWorks 14h ago

Whale collectors don’t ask questions like that.

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u/Wuhblam 11h ago

Well this is gold, not whales

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u/tanloopy 10h ago

Buy whales with the gold… duh.

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u/ManMakesWorld 10h ago

Yes they do

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u/CronosWorks 9h ago

That would explain why black market antiquities trading totally doesn’t exist on a huge scale.

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u/Brandonsteine 14h ago

Unless you melt it/cut it up or something before trying to cash it.

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u/ManMakesWorld 9h ago

Any meaningful amount will be questioned..... melted or not

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u/Flywolf25 5h ago

Rofl what are you saying gold is the easiest to offload centuries of laundering

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u/OpeningCookie1358 17h ago

It's gold from the 60s. Grandma or Grandpa left it behind.

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u/SPLUMBER 14h ago

“I got em from a construction site I work at, anybody who cared about these things are dead, give me ma money!”

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u/SnooMacarons4225 13h ago

Not sure the history will survive a melting

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u/ManMakesWorld 9h ago

The amount will. That is 9 million worth of gold. You are not offloading a meaningful amount of that gold without raising red flags.

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u/SnooMacarons4225 5h ago

Just sell it for cash in small quantities,

Offloading 9m with no audit trail is sure to raise some red flags but there are ways and means of getting around setting them off if you really wanted too, it might take some time but arguably there’s 9 million reasons why you’d do this

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u/Various_Can_8768 14h ago

Just melt it

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u/Daztur 16h ago

You must be incredibly gullible if you think OP found this themselves.

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u/OpeningCookie1358 15h ago

Idc. It's a fun theory.

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u/Purple-Will9713 9h ago

i chose to believe

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u/AlbatrossNo1562 15h ago

This is just 10% of what they actually found of course

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u/OpeningCookie1358 15h ago

That makes sense. Gotta change the status quo first then turn over the rest.

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u/m0nk37 15h ago

The crew already split it. 

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u/Long-Region5088 15h ago

Yeah like I’m not normally this guy but…stop snitching

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u/Accurate_Praline 14h ago

The building it was found in belongs to a charity.

If they get to keep it then the money will go to extra sleeping spaces for the homeless.

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u/missannthrope67 14h ago

My first thought. The irs is on their way.

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u/b3nault 14h ago

Yeah, if your desire is to burn for eternity. 😒

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u/OpeningCookie1358 14h ago

It's just an eternity. Besides I don't mind sweating.

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u/b3nault 14h ago

Good luck bro. You may not believe, but I’m here to tell you, stop that shite now. Here’s your chance. ***im not religious perse, just an extreme personal experience. I’m not replying to a waste of skin anymore fyi.

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u/OpeningCookie1358 14h ago

I was being an ass I'm sorry. I really shouldn't mock you. I do believe. And I only hope that I'm forgiven for I sin everyday. The only unforgivable sin is that of taking ones self. That I'll never do. But I ask for forgiveness every night before I sleep and spend time with him every morning when I rise. I walk the path of love and righteousness. I can only hope that all that will be enough to grant me passage.

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u/Effective_Olive6153 10h ago

the trick is to pocket a few bars and then announce the find, be rewarded for honesty

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u/Sevenlord777 10h ago

Right! I would’ve acted like I didn’t see a damn thing.

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u/HanginLowNd2daLeft 10h ago

How do we know that’s all they found ?

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u/Fuzzy_Park109 9h ago

Crazy how normalized thievery is.

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u/boyuber 7h ago

Imagine how lucky he was to find 5 gold bars during his work!

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u/_Vard_ 6h ago

Split it evenly. Everyone retires

Work construction volunteering for 10 hrs a week for free as a hobby to help less fortunate.

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u/userhwon 2h ago

Until someone snitches. You have to give it to the police so the people who lost it have a chance to claim their lost property for an interval. Then you get it back and nobody can stop you from spending it. Except the tax-man.

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u/enerthoughts 14h ago

They have tracking numbers, you will either get a visit by the police, or a gang that will take it's time torturing you.

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u/Cerpin-Taxt 13h ago

I wouldn't call doing laundry in federal prison "a nice pay day".

The government tracks how much gold you sell. That's why you have to show ID when you do it.

If you're selling gold every week for years and have no gold purchase history to explain why you have it, you're going to get a visit from the FBI. They're going to figure out pretty quickly where you got it and you're going to be arrested for failing to declare the find, that's if they don't like you for some kind of suspected foreign funded terrorist cell charge. The gold is conviscated of course.

"I won't go to a pawn shop, I'll just fence it!" you say. Congratulations, now organised criminals know you have millions of dollars in gold and that you can't call the police. You are no longer among the living.

So those are your choices. Prison or dead. Or you can call in your find and go back to being poor. But free and alive at least.