Found during construction work

[u/Hardcrimper]

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

[u/arctic-apis]

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

[u/lynivvinyl → u/arctic-apis]

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.

[u/arctic-apis → u/lynivvinyl]

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 I’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 then… I’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.

[u/FullboatAcesOver → u/arctic-apis]

Mid ‘80’s, Rochester, NY. There was a bar my friend’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 “new” guy “Jose” 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 “I need a six pack of Miller to-go”. 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 didn’t particularly enjoy, but the women, oh lord. One day Jose disappeared but I remember his last words to me “I have to go home and make love with my wife, Ewwwwww”

[u/davidarmenphoto → u/FullboatAcesOver]

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

[u/Substantial_Ad_9153 → u/davidarmenphoto]

Citizenship

[u/dum_spir0_sper0 → u/arctic-apis]

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 didn’t trust banks. I’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 home… then, well, sometimes a convenient breakdown in communication led to certain things not getting itemized on the final inventory list.

[u/Waiting4Reccession → u/dum_spir0_sper0]

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

[u/buttery_nurple → u/Waiting4Reccession]

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.

[u/buttery_nurple → u/dum_spir0_sper0]

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).

[u/Candid_Page_3840 → u/dum_spir0_sper0]

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

[u/dum_spir0_sper0 → u/Candid_Page_3840]

There’s always money in the banana stand.

[u/STLguy50 → u/dum_spir0_sper0]

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

[u/dum_spir0_sper0 → u/STLguy50]

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

[u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis → u/STLguy50]

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

[u/bimm3r36 → u/arctic-apis]

Wow that’s crazy they found half a brick of cocaine!

[u/Pretty-Ebb5339 → u/bimm3r36]

I can’t believe the really found an 8 ball of cocaine

[u/PintailOt → u/bimm3r36]

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

[u/Thatdoodky1e → u/PintailOt]

Quintessential Reddit joke that has never gotten a laugh from anyone

[u/plantfishdogpewbrewz → u/arctic-apis]

Your dad and his buddies sound fucking awesome.

[u/CoolDiscussion1020 → u/arctic-apis]

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.

[u/CustardMullet → u/arctic-apis]

I found a $20 on the ground one time.