[Cowboy Bob]

When I was living in New Orleans in the early ‘80s, construction began on a new hotel on Canal St. The plot that they were going to build on was being used as a parking lot. (the former buildings had been torn down years before).

When the workers were digging the hole for the foundation, they broke into a chest that had been buried there. I can't recall exactly, but I believe that there had been a bank on that location in the past. Anyway, hundreds of coins spilled out onto the ground. Workers and passers by made a mad scramble to pick up the coins...

It made the evening news and they interviewed several people, but no one ever admitted taking any of the coins themselves. :) I've always been curious if any of those coins were of any BIG value...

[rktman]

Rule #1. Shut up!
Rule #2. Dig all night.
Rule #3. Don’t tell anybody.
Rule #4. DO NOT go buy a shiny new Escalade.

[MaxMax]

Amazing how people will take what isn't theirs.