PING!..................
Dumpster Diving SAD!
Around here, you are not allowed to dig in the landfill.
Of course, we had a woman ran over by a trash compactor years ago.
Does he still remember the password?
I know a geek who put some important data into a coffee table he built.
It was made of wood but on the top were hundreds of brand new shiny pennies that he covered using some kind of clear resin.
The data was stored as a bit pattern with heads up = 1, tails up = 0.
It was a pw...
I think I’d pay a construction crew with an excavator $10 million to find it.
Sorry,my sympathy meter is stuck at zero.
Electronics degrades pretty fast in a landfill. He might find a corroded blob with empty plastic connector shells.
Gollum
That is a sad story. I hope he finds his $357 million amidst all that trash in the landfill.
Landfill Lounger looking for the lost. Gone for good.
Ping!
I know that the larger the loss, the more it preys on the mind! I inherited some gold coins but they got lost in a move and it did cause some restless sleep BUT that was somewhere in the 4 digits (I hope)! 9 digit losses like this creates the same fever that has people trying for that Oak Island thingy.
Sorry for him but he does need to let it GO!
Had a pre-season bet from a trip to Vegas that the Eagles would win the Superbowl. Lost the ticket. The Eagles made the Big Game... but ran into Tom Brady’s Patriots (2005).
Yeah, I’d have dismantled my house if the Eagles had pulled that one off.
When my father passed some 20 years ago, I got custody of his class ring...one of those big beefy ones with a red stone in it.
I wore it to his funeral down in Arlington, and...when I came home, I couldn’t find it. It had a lot of sentimental value because he wore it every day of his adult life, and would occasionally whack us in our occipital (back of our skull) when he was angry and chewed us out. When we would walk by, he would flick out his hand so the stone facing out from the back of his hand would stingingly hit us there.
It became a source of humor to us kids in the same way the nuns with their rulers did, and I was heartbroken when I lost that ring.
Well, 20 years later, I still find myself eyeballing some old coat or bag with the fleeting thought “Could it be in there?” even though I have probably looked dozens of times before.
And it is only a ring!
I cannot imagine a hard drive with $350 million dollars on it lost somewhere. He probably dreams about finding it, and wakes up with tears in his eyes!
I went over to a guy’s house one time, and he had made a wall hanging out of a lottery ticket from every state in the Union...the one from California had a redwood tree theme, the one from Wyoming had a bucking bronco...and so on.
He told me people who visited him would completely get bugged out and twitchy, asking him how he could have it hanging there and wondering if a lottery ticket inside might have been a million dollar ticket!
I think he kind of enjoyed that...:)
Good. That makes the ones I have worth more.
fool .................... money
Have you checked under the bed?
Guy must have had some wealth to begin with or he would have been so much more careful with something worth $600+K (with the possibility to increase in value to $350+ million). If I had something worth $600K the size of a computer disk drive, I can guarantee you that it would be in a safe deposit box or other secure place so that boo-boos like throwing it out would be impossible. If possible, I would have also insured it.