Posted on 03/20/2014 8:01:34 AM PDT by JoeProBono
I never have that kind of luck!
Uh, shut up! Geez, it’s almost like lettin’ it out that you tripped over some cans full of gold coins or somethin’. SHHHHHHH!
I don’t believe this story in the way it was told. Why would ANYONE want to melt down that (obviously) high end clock? It says that the owner is a ‘scrap metal dealer’. Surely he knows better than that.
He's right to be. IRS agents are probably repelling down onto his roof from black helicopters as we speak.
Tacky thing, ain’t it?
No kidding. Nobody with a brain pays 13K for an old egg clock with lots of gold and melts it down without at least checking for antique value.
A very white porcelain Buddha-Jesus sitting in a lotus position, but it’s also a lamp and a clock with Roman numerals? What a find. It’s like some sort of weird Unitarian lamp, but Jesus wouldn’t be white and it would be less touristy-kitkat, lol. They may not believe specifically in much, but Unitarians do concern themselves greatly with the aesthetics of it all. He is wearing a clerical robe, so maybe Episcopalian? Naaah, they’d run screaming away from anything remotely so tacky. Who else could it be, then? They’d have to revel in golden doo-dads of questionable origin and all the mixed messages would have to go completely over their heads.
Melt that down?
There are times when I have to remind myself what lurks on the other end of the IQ Bell curve...
Just DAMN.....
Do these people not know how to keep their dammed mouths SHUT when they find something valuable?!?! Is it THAT HARD to just not say anything?
Now, he’ll be LUCKY if it stops at the government only wanting THEIR piece of the action. I’m SURE there will be a few other associated taxes and fees that go along with such a find, and this isn’t considering all of the people coming out of the woodwork claiming ownership of it, whether right or not, it could get tied up in court for God knows how long, with the legal expenses that go along with it.
If it totally works out the wrong way, rather than being wealthier, he’ll end up with no money in his pocket and a headache.
I know someone who has a lamp like that. But it’s Elvis and not Jesus.
Maybe Vlad will demand it be repatriated to Russia and everybody except Vlad ends up empty handed. ;>} Russian historical artifact don’t cha know.
The United States Government will seize this, and return it to the ‘rightful owners’.... them.
I figure my time will come, about five minutes after I give my last breath.
Expect Putin’s goons to show up soon demanding it back.
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