Posted on 10/30/2013 5:14:30 PM PDT by Libloather
A fortune in gold, gleefully chucked into a Colorado Springs trash bin?
That's the claim of Earl Ray Jones, a Teller County man who says he converted $500,000 in life savings into gold in May and then threw it away - all to prevent his wife of 25 years from seeing a nickel in their pending divorce.
**SNIP**
Jones is facing a Nov. 4 sentencing in Teller County for menacing after he beat up his wife and held her captive in their Divide home during a March fight over finances. April Jones filed for divorce three weeks after the assault. Facing the loss of his government security clearance, Jones resigned his $82,000-a-year job at Exelis, a Colorado Springs contractor, court records show.
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If he just converted cash to gold in May, he WAY overpaid, LOL!
The landfill may be able to find it. They generally can tell you within a couple hundred cubic yards or so where a particular truck emptied on any given day.
For a half million, it might be worth it.
i married a nymphomaniac so for over 26 years years when i think eff this....
that you andy dufresne
LOL!
I was engaged some years back.
Three months after accepting I caught her cheating on me.
Walked to the end of the pier in Santa Cruz and chucked the engagement ring into the ocean and never looked back.
The reason divorces are so expensive is that they are worth it.
You don’t seriously believe he threw it away, do you?
Heck no.
The landfill may be able to find it. They generally can tell you within a couple hundred cubic yards or so where a particular truck emptied on any given day.
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The gold isn’t in the landfill.
;-)
Buried, to be reclaimed at his convenience.
I live in Teller County.
Off tomorrow with the metal detector.
I think the throwing it away is just a ruse so he can sound like an tough guy. Really he is just an idiot and lost it when his boat tipped over. (Happens a lot around here).
I’ve read, years ago, of several scuba divers who made good money working the waters of the Truckee River in Reno NV.
I thought it was just a song till I found the women were throwing their wedding rings in the river.
No, but it’s a fun mental exercise.
I’ve dug up a landfill for, well, much less than that.
I can't help the sweet visual in my head of that ring still being on her finger as you chucked the engagement ring into Monterey Bay.
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