Janitor Finds Gold In Trash - South Korea
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Maybe someone already posted this. Talk about luck.
https://upi.com/Airport-janitor-might-keep-325M-in-gold-bars-found-in-trash/4781525361830/
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Some people just have all the luck!
Sounds fishy.....
Corrected below.....now makes more sense @ $350,000.
Some people should keep their mouth shut when they find something like this.
The weight involved must be so great that it is not casual smuggling, or something about the story is wrong.
A standard good delivery gold bar is 0.9999 fine and weighs 400 T oz. although most places now use Kg for weight. (11.3398 kg)
Yea the comments below the story say it is in won not dollars. Somewhere around $325 thousand. A great find none the less. First thing I thought of was Marks stolen bars.
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OK....did not see that little part. The headline says "$325M" implying million dollars.
So it would be 250 T oz or each bar would weight about 35.7 T oz or 7,776 g or maybe 1,000g bars as a practical matter.
Could there be a transcription error somewhere? The gold (or gold plated tungsten) was headed from Hong Kong to Japan, so perhaps it was meant to say 325 million yen, which would be $2.98 million, or 2266 troy ounces, or just over 35 kg per guy moving it. The bars would be 10 kg each.
Edit: Never mind. Didn't see that part about it actually being won.
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he doesnt keep it if the gold was involved in criminal activity. $325,000 of gold bars left in an airport trash---highly likely it seems that it has a criminal link
I would keep my mouth shut, telling no one put it in safe place, research how sell some. Would start off w one bar.
Finders keepers, losers weepers. We live on a predatory planet where the well off and their minions exploit and suppress the less fortunate. No reason not keep it.
I hope he pocketed a few bars before turning the rest in..... Because otherwise, he will not see any of it. Cheers, RickO
No one in their right mind should try and keep something like this. It's an airport with tons of cameras watching everything. He did the right thing.
This is a guaranteed way to land in jail. Good interrogation would quickly break down the janitor's story.
The UK needs to adopt that law. They would've swiped them in a half a heartbeat.
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The UK's law refers to treasure trove, not this.
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He should have walked it right by customs in plain sight (when was the last time you made eye contact with a custodian?) and hopped on a flight and disappeared.
What's the difference?
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Treasure trove
Treasure Act 1996
The Treasure Act 1996 is an Act of Parliament designed to deal with finds of treasure in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It legally obliges finders of objects which constitute a legally defined term of treasure to report their find to their local coroner within 14 days. An inquest led by the coroner then determines whether the find constitutes treasure or not. If it is declared to be treasure then the finder must offer the item for sale to a museum at a price set by an independent board of antiquities experts known as the Treasure Valuation Committee. Only if a museum expresses no interest in the item, or is unable to purchase it, can the finder retain it.
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I wonder how many treasures were destroyed and melted thanks to the Treasure Act.
So this South Korean find, under this law as quoted, could be declared treasure if the coroner in his single opinion decides such.
That is bizarre that the coroner is involved.
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coroner is not like our coroner, ie for dead bodies.
altho that is his/or her other duties
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Wow, what a story !!!
If the people who left the bars were in transit from Hong Kong to Tokyo, they would not have passed through customs or further security. Why would they have been in Korea anyway? Lots of through flights from HK to Tokyo.
Culture in South Korea is quite different from the culture here.
While there are many honest people in the US, you are more likely to find people returning lost wallets in S.K. than you would in the US.
Someone there reporting this find is NOT surprising to me. Probably likely that the person never really thought about NOT reporting it.
I'd report it as well, if it were me. Just because you find it doesn't mean it is right to just keep it. You have no idea of the history of it.
To me, it is completely different than metal detecting and finding something in a field....
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Wow, Coug. You woulda been one of the shoplifting hippies back in the '60s, takin' it to The Man.
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...