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It finally happened

RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
You guys... it happened. The moment I've been training my entire life for -- it really, really fucking happened.

This weekend the weather was goddamned gorgeous. First really nice day of the year. I got out into the garden and started cleaning things up, digging up these tree starts by the root before they could really get hold.

So I start digging up one right next to a raised bed box and I hit this rock with the shovel, but when I toss the dirt out of the hole I notice this really bright color. I would describe it as "definitely not a rock red", if I had to describe it.

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You know what this means, right?

That's right! ANIMAL GRAVE! YAAAAAAY!

So I call my spouse over to take some pictures, either to record this memory or to serve as evidence (both are important), and I get the little hand spade out to carefully unearth this thing.

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It's wrapped up in a plastic bag, and the contents themselves look remarkably well-preserved. It can't have been down here too long.

We just bought this house last year after the former residents passed away. I always assumed it was old age, but now I am reconsidering. Perhaps a bandit mishap?

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Finally I haul the thing out of the ground and, while chanting "please don't be a dead cat, please don't be a dead cat, please don't be a dead cat" I lift the lid.

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Holy fucking shit.

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Holy fucking shit!

This here is a goddamned cookie tin packed full of crown royal bags loaded with cash money. Gold and silver motherfucking coins. Like, literally silver coins.

There's seven troy ounce silver coins in here, from 2000 to 2006. There's nine rolls of quarters, a couple handfuls of the old eisenhower silver dollars, some kennedy half-dollars and fucking TONS of these gold sacagawea and presidential dollar coins.

Buried goddamned treasure. In my fucking yard.

Not only that but there is a bunch of the old timer's ID cards. Like his union dues booklet, and his pass he used on a carnival cruise, and his safeway card? Ok.

And! There's a goddamn huge ziplock bag filled with massive pumpkin seeds. I already planted a couple, and I'm pretty sure they'll grow a beanstalk and I'll get to fight a giant.

So far it's been two days and there's been no sign of bandits or kobolds, so that's good.

Now what?

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    >get ye flask

  • BlueBlueBlueBlue Registered User regular
    watch out for bandits or kobolds

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    BlueBlue wrote: »
    watch out for bandits or kobolds

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Become a numismatist?

  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    watch for paranormal pet activity?

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  • LalaboxLalabox Registered User regular
    consult a wizard to see if it's cursed

  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    I’m sorry Rank, but you’re cursed now

  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    Lalabox wrote: »
    consult a wizard to see if it's cursed

    it's too late now since he's used the item. that's how that works right?

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Which direction is the local Tavern?

  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    I’m a wizard

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Lalabox wrote: »
    consult a wizard to see if it's cursed
    Veldrin wrote: »
    I’m sorry Rank, but you’re cursed now

    Veldrin...

    I didn't know you were a wizard!!

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    Plant some of that gold and grow a gold shrub.

  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Uriel wrote: »
    Lalabox wrote: »
    consult a wizard to see if it's cursed
    Veldrin wrote: »
    I’m sorry Rank, but you’re cursed now

    Veldrin...

    I didn't know you were a wizard!!

    Nobody tell AJ please

  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    those coins belong to the cat, and he's definitely coming for them

  • thatassemblyguythatassemblyguy Janitor of Technical Debt .Registered User regular
    edited March 2018
    Trade it all for 0.012721 bitcoin.

    e: also, sounds like you need to start paying union dues, you can use the bitcoin to get current.

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  • LalaboxLalabox Registered User regular
    it actually is an animal grave, and these were the offerings that the cat was supposed to take with them to the afterlife

  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    Jasconius wrote: »
    those coins belong to the cat, and he's definitely coming for them

    Look man I waited the entirety of the very next day. He never came back. That cats a goner.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Shoulda buried the gold in the roof, like a sensible person.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    Look what I am saying here is there hasn’t been a single day in my life I haven’t expected to find buried treasure. It’s been almost 40 goddamned years and I did it. That cat wants his fare for the river styx, he’s gunna have a god damned fight on his hands and brother, I’m ready.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    This happened to my brother once. We just moved into our new home and he was fucking around in the basement hitting celiling tiles instead of cleaning.

    A box of fucking money falls on him. 600 bucks in bills maybe 100 in various coins. tons of old recipets.and bills too

    Our mom took it because my brothers wouldn't shut up about it.

    At least I learned they'd be liabilities in a bank robbery.

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  • LalaboxLalabox Registered User regular
    Look what I am saying here is there hasn’t been a single day in my life I haven’t expected to find buried treasure. It’s been almost 40 goddamned years and I did it. That cat wants his fare for the river styx, he’s gunna have a god damned fight on his hands and brother, I’m ready.

    get a ghost spray bottle to defend yourself

  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    This happened to my brother once. We just moved into our new home and he was fucking around in the basement hitting celiling tiles instead of cleaning.

    A box of fucking money falls on him. 600 bucks in bills maybe 100 in various coins. tons of old recipets.and bills too

    Our mom took it because my brothers wouldn't shut up about it.

    At least I learned they'd be liabilities in a bank robbery.
    Shit how do I delete threads

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    C'moooon, which way to the local Tavern? You gotta ask the barkeep about the person whose union card that is, then visit the local blacksmith and trade two silver pieces for an iron short sword, then find the saddlier and trade ten copper pieces for a leather jerkin. This is the quest to find Jimmy Hoffas grave, after all!

  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    how much money and can i have some

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    I am thinking the only sensible thing is to spend all this loot to rent a backhoe and dig up the rest of the yard.

    Gotta spend money to make money.

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Do you know anyone with a metal detector?

  • PsykomaPsykoma Registered User regular
    I would feel very conflicted about this if it were me, but I'm happy for you!

    And yeah, after having found one trove, I would probably metal detect the rest of the property for potentially additional ones.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    This happened to my brother once. We just moved into our new home and he was fucking around in the basement hitting celiling tiles instead of cleaning.

    A box of fucking money falls on him. 600 bucks in bills maybe 100 in various coins. tons of old recipets.and bills too

    Our mom took it because my brothers wouldn't shut up about it.

    At least I learned they'd be liabilities in a bank robbery.
    Shit how do I delete threads

    Delete the thread before the government finds out and the treasure becomes taxable income!

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    Uriel wrote: »
    Lalabox wrote: »
    consult a wizard to see if it's cursed
    Veldrin wrote: »
    I’m sorry Rank, but you’re cursed now

    Veldrin...

    I didn't know you were a wizard!!

    Nobody tell AJ please

    WHO'S A WIZARD NOW

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  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 Time Trash Cat Registered User regular
    Now you need to pay it forward, leave some treasure somewhere for somebody to dig up in 40 years

    of course in 40 years fiat currency will be gone and we will all be utilizing the blockchain for transactions, so you need to bury a bitcoin somewhere

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    If you don’t think I’m not going to bury all kinds of treasures all over my property then I don’t think you know a damned thing about me

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Circle your house with salt to ward off evil spirits.

  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    This is amazing and I'm so jealous.

    I'd it weren't for the union dues book I'd think the old man was a Ron Swanson type

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    If you don’t think I’m not going to bury all kinds of treasures all over my property then I don’t think you know a damned thing about me

    I mean, I know one thing about you.

  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 Time Trash Cat Registered User regular
    Bury the time capsule personal treasures and childhood toys box near the surface, but the bin of valuables and stocks and vintage coins a foot beneath that for the persistent person who deserves it

    wait dang go back and dig a little deeper beneath where you found this treasure

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Invest your money into solving the Oak Island mystery.

  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    tynic wrote: »
    If you don’t think I’m not going to bury all kinds of treasures all over my property then I don’t think you know a damned thing about me

    I mean, I know one thing about you.

    Fuck.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    That's amazing.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    Do you know anyone with a metal detector?

    Yo

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Have you done any exploration in case there was more buried?

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