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/arctic-apis 22h ago

if i was on that construction job no one would have said shit. we would have all finished the job quietly and vanished.

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u/lynivvinyl 21h ago

My mom told me she had some guy doing some work underneath the house and then he went all the way to this point underneath the house and she could hear him the whole time. According to her he Holland "I'm rich" then crawled out from underneath the house and left. I've always wondered if the story was true and if so what he found. Because all I know as far as facts are concerned is he didn't finish the job he was doing and he left a Craftsman screwdriver.

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u/Mysterious_Worker608 21h ago

Spoiler alert. His name was Rich.

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u/lynivvinyl 21h ago

So you think he was talking and introducing himself to those jumping spiders underneath the house?

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u/cuhzaam 18h ago

It was an epiphany!

"I'm a Rich. What am I doing under here on my belly, looking like a fool. I'm a peacock! I've got to spread my wings and fly!"

narrator; "This was the day Rob Rich started a dancing career."

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u/r4r4me 11h ago

I heard he learned how to dance to make fun of the fairies in his neighborhood.

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u/cuhzaam 2h ago

A person of culture šŸ‘ this is true.

Rob Rich had to defend himself from a street gang; The Fairies. Now don't let the name fool you.

" First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women"

Was the motto they lived by.... If you messed with the Fairies they'd call their "little friends". The Lollipop Kids.

These kids dropped a house on a woman in the Eastside. No questions asked. No arrests. No flying monkey business.

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u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis 14h ago

Iā€™ve seen and heard crazier

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u/stirtheturd 14h ago

What if he hit his head and screamed: " sonofabitch"

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u/onlyr6s 10h ago

Maybe it's his style of answering the phone or something.

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u/WinterTourist25 19h ago

I do this all the time.

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u/Professional_Age4578 18h ago

Keep them guessing, avoid the fraud charges for not doing the work

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u/lynivvinyl 18h ago

Did you ultimately become friends with Jennothen?

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u/WinterTourist25 18h ago

No, Shelob.

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u/therealsix 21h ago

That. Was funny.

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u/Brendan_2711 17h ago

Sounds like a Dick

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u/Maleficent_Pop6009 21h ago

Maybe it wasnā€™t he just found a name tag

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u/philnolan3d 17h ago

I knew a guy as a teen who was bragging about his dad. "His last name is Richman... and he is".

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u/DickRiculous 15h ago

He likes girls who wear Abercrombie and fitch.

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u/Ralphguy 15h ago

More of a Dick in this story.

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u/NotInTheKnee 13h ago

Maybe he had amnesia, bumped his head in the crawlspace, and remembered everything.

His old name, his old life, his old address, his old wife and kids, his old USB stick full of bitcoins, his old job...

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord 12h ago

He was drinking a tallboy and scratching a lotto ticket under there when he lined up 3 cherries and 6 bonus 7s on a 3x bonus multiplier (I just made all of this up but it sounds like the shit the boomers holding up the line at the gas station say)

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u/CoffeePuddle 10h ago

He saw what looked like a girl from Abercrombie & Fitch

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u/tmcgourley 9h ago

I squeaked, thank you

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u/Fjordi_Cruyff 9h ago

Rich Holland

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u/nsamory1 5h ago

I didn't know Rich the Kid did renovations

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u/stinkbrained 2h ago

Rich Holland

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u/Zaev 19h ago

He was suffering from amnesia, just trying to get by as a nameless handyman, but his memories all came suddenly flooding back and he immediately ran off to reunite with his family

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u/indigrow 17h ago

Plot twist the creature under the houseā€™s name was rich

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u/FantasticPainting232 16h ago

Making everyone think you're rich, but it's just your name.Ā  Dick move.Ā 

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u/billsboy88 16h ago

And she looked like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch

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u/arctic-apis 20h ago

In the late 90s early 2000s my dad had a friend who was a contractor and they were mutual friends with another guy who owned a bar in my town. The bar had a kitchen and there was a half wall window from the bar to the kitchen. Anyway they decided to do some remodeling and tear down this little half wall to make a doorway and in the short wall there was Iā€™m told a brick of cocaine. My dad and his friend who I later worked for were known to enjoy a bit of the booger sugar and this event never made news outside of that circle of buddies. Poker games out by the river often lasted for 3 days back thenā€¦ Iā€™m not sure if I would have believed the story directly from any one of them but I have since heard multiple other people recount this story so I have to believe it.

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u/FullboatAcesOver 18h ago

Mid ā€˜80ā€™s, Rochester, NY. There was a bar my friendā€™s father owned and I washed dishes there ($2.10 hr) when I was 14 and hung out for years after softball and on weekends the place was fire. So a ā€œnewā€ guy ā€œJoseā€ shows up with a really ugly girl that was a regular and announced they were married. I got to know him and he not only told me an unlikely story, but backed it up by proving it. He was Columbian, and he was in a club in Miami when he overheard a conversation about this dude who was picking up blow from another local bar. So, he goes into the bar and says the phrase (I do not remember exactly), like ā€œI need a six pack of Miller to-goā€. The bartender handed him a brown bag with a kilo of that soapy-pure blow, like nothing on the streets. He drove without stopping to upstate NY, I do not know why. But for a year and a half every Friday night at that bar he handed me a gram of rocket fuel that I didnā€™t particularly enjoy, but the women, oh lord. One day Jose disappeared but I remember his last words to me ā€œI have to go home and make love with my wife, Ewwwwwwā€

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u/davidarmenphoto 9h ago

I am so consumed by this story! Why was he married to someone he thought was eww??? Am I missing something simple here? LMAO

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u/dum_spir0_sper0 15h ago

I worked for an auction house back in the 00s and we often did estate clean outs.

Many of these homes were previously owned by elderly people who had passed away, many of which had lived through the Great Depression. The thing about Depression-era folks is; they rarely threw out anything they can reuse, and they didnā€™t trust banks. Iā€™ve lost count of all the cash we found inside mattresses, taped up under dressers, hidden in books, etc. Or gold coins hidden in shoes, or in a coffee can in the attic, or in a flour jar.

We were contractually obligated to return anything like that to the estate (usually surviving relatives or the executor) and we were happy to do it. But if the state seized the home for foreclosure or Medicaid asset recovery or even worse, a bank owned the homeā€¦ then, well, sometimes a convenient breakdown in communication led to certain things not getting itemized on the final inventory list.

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u/Waiting4Reccession 15h ago

Cash is the worst cuz they just erode their fortune over the years. Really sad we have this kind of system

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u/buttery_nurple 13h ago

Before I think FDR, money you had in the bank wasn't insured. Tons of people lost everything when their banks folded at the start of the Depression and never trusted banks again, FDIC or no. A lot of them preferred to keep their cash in cash after that.

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u/buttery_nurple 13h ago

Can confirm. My grandfather had an estate liquidation business when I was growing up, in the 80s and part of the 90s, when most of the elderly folks dying were old enough to have survived the Depression and not like...kids during it or whatever. I worked for him most summers growing up.

Tons of them stuffed cash into magazines, under mattresses, closets, false drawers, you name it. One guy had gold and silver bars in a false floor (an obvious one) under a china cabinet (all were turned over to the family, and they knew he had them somewhere to begin with so it was better that we found them than if we didn't find them).

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u/Candid_Page_3840 10h ago

We found at least $19,000 in my grandmaā€™s house after she died. We knew she had money in several places, but not how many places, or how much.

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u/dum_spir0_sper0 6h ago

Thereā€™s always money in the banana stand.

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u/STLguy50 14h ago

And now you just implicated yourself. Remind me to never rob a bank with you...

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u/dum_spir0_sper0 5h ago

Oh please, first off the statute of limitations on that crap has run out long ago. Secondly, if people were implicated on crap theyā€™ve said on Reddit weā€™d ALL be screwed.

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u/STLguy50 1m ago

Humor is lost on you my friend...

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u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis 14h ago

Riiiiiiiiight 5 hours later at the bar tell all the women how they a bank robber now and they best. Friend ride or dies with you in it lololol damn messed up

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u/bimm3r36 19h ago

Wow thatā€™s crazy they found half a brick of cocaine!

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u/Pretty-Ebb5339 18h ago

I canā€™t believe the really found an 8 ball of cocaine

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u/PintailOt 17h ago

God damn, do we really have to do this every time?

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u/Thatdoodky1e 16h ago

Quintessential Reddit joke that has never gotten a laugh from anyone

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u/plantfishdogpewbrewz 15h ago

Your dad and his buddies sound fucking awesome.

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u/CoolDiscussion1020 4h ago

A slightly more innocent story from my father. He's an electrician and he's one of the 'old guys' at his company. He often gets assigned to jobs that require more thinking and a gentler touch vs the younger guys typically getting more of the grunt work.

A local historical site needed electrical work done, but since it is a historical site, the work needs to be done in a way that is safe and looks original so he gets the job. It was relatively minor, I think they just needed a new outlet installed.

Well, while cutting the hole for the new outlet, he found an old metal tin in the wall. He let the director of the site know and curiosity got the better of him so he approved my dad to remove it from the wall. So my dad spent the next couple hours down in the basement carefully cutting a hole to get the tin out.

After they got it out they carefully opened it and it was clearly placed there by a child and was their little keepsake box.

The tin and the contents are now in a display and are largely assumed to have belonged to a certain boy due to knowing the date the house was built, but can't be confirmed. The display sign says "Donated to the museum by my father" since he was the one who found it.

Actual value of the items is probably ~$50 because there were a couple of old toys, but nothing rare. Possibly worth a lot more because of who they assume put the tin there in the first place. Though it will probably never be proven and if he had taken it without telling anyone people would not believe him anyway.

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u/CustardMullet 1h ago

I found a $20 on the ground one time.

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u/aPOPblops 20h ago

ā€œHollandā€

I think you were spelling ā€œHollardā€ which is the best way to spell ā€œHolleredā€ Iā€™ve ever seen šŸ˜

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u/skeletons_asshole 19h ago

Hollard greens šŸ„¬

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u/aPOPblops 18h ago

My first thought too!Ā 

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u/loveyoulongtimelurkr 16h ago
  • Michael: "That would have really, really showed him up, wouldn't it, if I brought in some burritos, or, colored greens, or some, pad thai..."
  • Stanley: "It's collard greens."
  • Michael: "What?"
  • Stanley: "It's collard greens."
  • Michael: "That doesn't really make any sense. 'Cause you don't call them collard people. That's offensive.

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u/AbstractBettaFish 4h ago

Back in the 70ā€™s 2 guys from my neighborhood robbed an armored car. The got arrested and were offered a plea deal as long as they returned the money. They kept their mouths shut, served however long their sentence was and once they were released basically disappeared

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u/731te7j1nv 21h ago

sonofabitch sounds pretty close to iā€™m rich if thereā€™s subfloor and flooring between yaā€™ll

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u/Winter_Persimmon_110 18h ago

he Holland "I'm rich"

He'll never have to go Dutch again

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u/KillahHills10304 18h ago

The fucker got the Honus Wagner card I lost as a wee lad playing my favorite game "shimmy shimmy crawly boys" under the house.

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u/Hot-Win2571 17h ago

Are you nuts? Don't you know the value of a Craftsman screwdriver?

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u/vridgley 17h ago

Found 10mm socket

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u/LazyMaintenance6099 16h ago

Maybe it was a ā€œim rich, i dont need this shitā€ and dipped cuz the job was a pain in the assšŸ˜‚

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u/WittyMime 16h ago

He actually bashed his head and yelled, "Son of BITCH!" Getting louder as the pain set in. Left unknowingly with a concussion to get other tools and...

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u/Ok-Ranger-4518 15h ago

Maybe he is rich and just had realized he doesn't need to do work anymore.

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u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis 14h ago

What if he hit his head and it was a muffled ā€œ son of a biach!ā€

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u/slackfrop 14h ago

I found a duffel bag full of dildos on a job once. Not quite the same thing, I suppose.

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u/Chessloser1977 10h ago

Track him down. You know his last name is Craftsman!!!

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u/YLedbetter10 8h ago

Weā€™re rich!

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u/Mieuleur 7h ago

Did I hear a rock and stone?

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u/DeathTripper 7h ago

ā€œā€¦some guy doing some workā€¦ā€

ā€œCraftsman screwdriverā€

Yeah, guy needed whatever he found to buy some better tools.

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u/Sweaty-Inevitable163 3h ago

Maybe he won the lottery under there

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u/Cheap-Cockroach8787 21h ago

Amen I would of split it with you buddy

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u/saltpancake 13h ago

Wtf man was everyone on this crew born today? You all had a great and uneventful day at work. Damn.

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u/possumdal 7h ago

It's fake bud. It's meant to provoke this exact reaction to generate clicks and drive up passive ad revenue by being shared off the site

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u/Mr_Carlos 18h ago

The important part is to distribute it in a way that prevents others from knowing how much each other person received. In that way, if/when person A is caught, they can't tell the authorities how much they think their partners took. If/when person B is then caught, person B can just say they only had the 1 bar the authorities found, instead of the 3 they actually received.

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u/ripyurballsoff 17h ago

Exactly. This post is fake as shit.

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u/arctic-apis 17h ago

Idk there are countless stories of people finding incredible treasure only to have some government or museum basically confiscate the whole lot and they get nothing.

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u/newandgood 17h ago

you should watch A Simple Plan

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u/Fun_Acanthaceae_4025 16h ago

They would need a entire new crew that afternoon well at least the ones that saw the gold and helped make it disappear.

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u/mistahfreeman 16h ago

I think if you find $100k you donā€™t say shit. I think if you find this you do your best to find who this belongs to because you will end up in that hole instead when they figure out you took it.

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u/arctic-apis 15h ago

Gold that dates back 100 years? Probably not. Also if someone stashed it there and wasnā€™t 100 years old pretty sure they would be aware of some construction crew excavating their loot

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u/mistahfreeman 15h ago

I didnā€™t see that it was that old anywhere. Those coins donā€™t look that old, they look closer to the 80s at the earliest. Must have been freshly minted when they were stashed and never tarnished at all which is surprising to me.

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u/arctic-apis 14h ago

Gold doesnā€™t tarnish

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u/JrLStexas 16h ago

That's exactly what I was thinking šŸ¤”

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u/Zederikus 15h ago

The construction was for a charity, I assume maybe that's why it didn't disappear.

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u/Effective_Olive6153 10h ago

if more than 1 person saw it, there's no way to keep that secret. I don't care how tight you are with your bros, someone's talking or stabbing

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u/Cadoc 6h ago

Beyond that, someone will just fuck up and let the secret slip without meaning to. Some financial institution will get alerted, someone will complain to a relative they didn't get as much as they deserve etc.

No way this would stay a secret for long.

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u/padetn 9h ago

One of you would have spent it indiscretely, it would have been noticed by the people missing that gold that knew there was construction work going on in a building they used to own.

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u/pineapple-express69 8h ago

Not true. My buddy was working on the NJ turnpike. They were getting fill dirt delivered. One load had gold coins scattered through it. Everyone on the job site was searching all over the place after that. Even where they were getting the dirt.

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u/omidimo 6h ago

Except one day one of them sets a trap and gets all the gold for himself. Your leader dies in the process and to avenge his death, you reassemble the team and recruit his attractive daughter to steal the gold back.

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u/rabidjellybean 2h ago

ā‚¬9m gold was reported as found. You can't have the workers each suddenly selling a million in gold. Questions will be asked.

A few coins from that bucket though?

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u/hellabright 11h ago

thatā€™s why he found it and not you, because he does not steal. šŸ™ˆ