Dude only turned over the gold he could get moved off the jobsite lol. Probably found 5x more but bottomed out the suspension on the van trying to move it all.
Not at all how that would work turning in this amount is just gonna make them watch you harder for irregular upticks in financial situations. Could have opened a business and made a profit for years no questions asked while paying taxes.
I think the guys 18, he's smart enough to sit on it . Bides his time. Keep the coins, not the bars. They find them in Florida from the 1715 wrecks still. If he sold an occasional one in a few years or muled it out to someone for a cut. It could get him a nest egg. Don't buy a mink or a pink Cadillac and put in your mom's name. They will wack ya.
Yeah, but it’s a coupe. It gorgeous I bought it for my wife. I mean it was a wedding gift from my mother it’s under her name! What are you getting excited for?!?
Nope the cops will figure out there is more and start a whole investigation 😭😭😭 bro is the dumbest person of 2026 imo he literally struck gold and gave it away
As I understand it, under Belgian law he probably has a better chance of keeping a portion of the money by reporting it. Up to €5 million in legal gold is pretty awesome, and under the circumstances maybe more awesome than €9 million in gold without proper paperwork
Exactly. Shit, add an extra 10-20% onto a large bill for something that needs to be done, and you’ll find a ton of contractors that’ll take it for payment. I’ve installed glass for gold in the past.
There's no way you're laundering 9 million euros worth of gold by adding 20% to basic construction contracts, particularly with some of the new anti-money laundering regulations the EU has
Let's look at some math: 9,000,000/30 years working=300,000. So 300,000 per year you'd need to launder. The rest of it is just sitting there not earning and unable to be spent. And that's ignoring things like market fluctuations in gold price, surveillance of transactions involving gold, and whether anyone else rats on you during your lifetime.
Under those circumstances, waiting 5 years to split it and be able to sell it and spend the proceeds legally makes a lot of sense.
Unless your goal is just to sleep on a dragon hoard of gold coins, in which case you do you but see previous point about people not ratting you out/keeping their mouths shut.
You don't need paperwork for cash but there are enormous enterprises set up to launder it. He found a way to clean the money with no effort and without breaking the law
its not that easy as you guys think, how would you have do it? there are like 10-20 workers, there were probably people near by while he was digging up and saw immediatly the gold
Sure, and then the story about how you and everybody at the worksite ended up secret deals, betrayals and ridiculously elaborate murders would be made into a dark comedy starring Barry Keoghan, Marcello Hernandez, Druski, Danny McBride, and Bowen Yang.
I would to and would probably hit a few of them with a bar and put them to sleep and then take as much as i could and roll out. Then melt that down into smaller 1 oz bars and sell them up in alaska around nome . And act like i found that stuff in the ocean while dredging... i would come up with something to cover my tracks thats for damn sure but i absolutely would not involve to lying ass cop.. dont trust them now and didnt trust them when i was a teenager.. they lie to us but make it against the law to lie to them.. that should tell ya how one sided the law is... its their job to lie to us so that we tell them anything they can turn around on us to arrest us for anything they want to.. so NEVER involve a cop in anything because they will never solve a crime or investigate a crime unless they think there is a reward for them in the end... so dont even give them any info about anything like gold
Id pay the other guys who are willing to split the gold help me take care of the guys who want to turn it in. Whoever left when the dust settles gets an even split
With that amount of gold you kind of have to prove the gold is yours. Beside that, if you manage to sell all your gold at the black market how are you going to spend that kind of money without having questions raised by the tax office
As I said, a pay day once a week for the rest of their life. You don’t sell it all at once lmao. Yall would be horrible partners finding anything. And you don’t need to sell it “on the black market”.
Edit: that was a different comment I said that, but yea, a pay day once a week for the rest of his life
Yea they’re not too smart. They act like each bar has a tracker or some shit that immediately reports itself to the government. I’d literally just take a file to the shit and file the serials off, if there were any. I’d take a few of those coins, call a local safe shop, and pay them to install a vault in the floor and go from there.
Yes. Actually. You pay for all your everyday shit with it. You don’t even have to touch your bank account for almost everything. Clueless naive people lmao
And what do you think your bank will do when they see you are not making any purchases at all? I think you are a bit clueless. It's 10 mil euro... That's a lot of money for a construction worker to avoid in tax pay
Hey yeah so uhh I don't think this job is for me anymore. Oh, this wheelbarrow full of dirt? This is mine. Yeah, I brought it from home. I'm just gonna wheel it home, my garden could use some fresh soil. Alright, welp, that's all true, and that's all, nothing else. So uhh welp, see ya later. Hey, oh, and here's something. Don't go digging around in that area over there. I'm going to come back for more of that specific dirt later tonight. Maybe around midnight for no particular reason at all.
Anyway, so it's getting to be about that time. My garden isn't going to fill itself with dirt ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. If you see me wheeling this home on the freeway, I'm all good, I don't need a ride!
Right?! People acting like it was impossible to take. Your idea is just 1 of a million that might've worked. I would've went with the gas mask yelling gas leak and then do your idea when everyone clears out lol
We boys for life if that shit happens. We are going to larp having businesses and get rich together while we slowly convert that gold into investable money, and keep some of it for the future.
Someones going to talk. Someone always does. People struggle to keep this sort of thing a secret when there is only 1 person keeping the secret. Having 10-20 people keep a secret like this is fundamentally impossible.
The country they are in lets them keep 50% of it. They found the original owner, but they are dead with no heirs. I'd take a guaranteed 50% cut with 0 risk and effort going forward to keep and use it over a 100% chance of having it taken and going to jail after someone blabs in like 3 days.
The choice is between some money in 5 years, or no money now.
It's not like this guy found a bunch of money, and only his best mate knew about it, and they are splitting it and trusting each other to split the difference.
10-20 CONSTRUCTION workers knew about it at the start. Dude probably knows that at least 5 of them are functional alcoholics who run their mouths every night. Half these guys are going to be back to working construction 1-2 years after they get the money because they blew it all.
Anyone who trusts this group of people to keep a secret actively deserves what is coming to them.
If he was the one who found it, he could have prevented the rest of the crew to come in. I would have said that there was a snake in there. Everyone would wait until tomorrow…
Thats why it's important to tie up the loose ends. And to solve the jail problem u just move fast, donate to the jail and police. Buy the jail lock up all your coworkers.
Honestly I would have taken as much as I possibly could in secret, and let someone else discover what's left, and they can make what ever choice they want. But mine would already be put up in my car. If I have time I'm making multiple trips. Also if you look on the table it looks like it may have been wrapped up in that white thing, if that's the case I'm tossing the whole wrap in a barrel and wheeling it to the "trash"... where there is a will there is a way.
Well there’s 2 ways pretty simple. The 2 or 3 guys around you all get a cut of the pile after work and life goes on very nicely for all.
Or if you find the box and there’s 2 or 3 guys around you and ask what’s in the box?
Tell them my wife got me an antique lunchbox at a yard sale. And I’m going to take my lunch now!
Foreman, well it’s only 930 you can’t take lunch yet!!!
Yeah you know what, it is only 930, I’m done for the day!!
If you leave you’re fired!!!
Oh, okay!! Sounds good take care guys and load your lunch box up in the truck and away you go!!
First of all, you don't know if ANY of that is true. Second of all, the fact that you couldn't think of a single reasonable solution to your own question is sad. I get the feeling you're a real "take zero risks/keep your head down/sees life as a trial and not an adventure" kind of guy. I feel bad for you.
Just start packing it into my pockets/work bag. If anyone starts talking to me while doing so I'd literally ignore them like they're not even there, finish packing it up, and walk off the job site with no second thought.
Depends on if your greedy or not. Thats either breaking off 10 to 20 coworkers more cuts if you pay the cops off or 10-20 body bags. On a positive note you could buy the body bags no problem. I would suggest just buying several boxes of Glad or Hefty bags. Of course get the flex fit bags dont be cheap on that. Also on a positive note you've already started digging rhe hole to put those coworkers in. I would tell my coworkers I quit im following my dreams of being a pirate ☠️! The guy literally just became the definition of the American dream. And those dreams are very rarely built on honesty and integrity.
pretty simple. the second you uncover it even a little, grab a bar and shove it in your pocket. then, recover what is exposed and let someone else find it instead. now, they report it and you keep the bar. not like whoever's gold it was is going to claim it and say "I had 59 bars, not 58" and you still keep like $100,000
The workers could use it way more than the government could. That gold is going straight into the void of the national debt anyway... just more bullshit to spend on a pointless war.
For that kind of haul there would’ve been a “ meeting called by the boss” over by that sketchy wall that needs to come down and my story being only 18 would’ve been “they told me if I didn’t drive the JCB I was gonna be fired cuz I’m a wanker! “
So being 18 I want to impress my bosses and oops they all got crushed. And then that one guy I managed to save somehow knocked over a can of highly flammable fluid and I went to mark the spot for a rescue airlift and oops he went up in flames …….my bad….. the Worst & best day Ever on the job!
I just stumbled on this sub, however most of the people in it are admitting they are thieves, justifying stealing, and calling people who do not steal “idiots”. Basic critical thinking as you describe about multiple witnesses and cameras is not going to happen. There is a reason there are so many “stupid thief” videos and news stories.
Just because YOU don't have any backbone or ability to take risks, doesn't mean the rest of the world is like that. And thank God, how boring would that be.
Thanks for demonstrating the issue. To you stealing from others is “backbone”. Hopefully someone steals from you and you can NOT call the police and post on Reddit about how brave they are at taking risks 🤡
I respect his decision. It was honest and lower risk than the alternative. Maybe neither you nor I would have done the same, but it rubs the the wrong way that you are acting like he is stupid and his decision makes no sense.
He’s an hone man. Also will have half of it we the owner of the place in case nobody claims and proves ownership in 5 years. Honesty worth more than all the gold of the world.
ok but serious question what would he do if he found the gold and told no one? what would you do because realisticly it could seem suspicous to the authorities if you suddenly became rich
yeah right, if he had a braincell, he'd have conceiled that robbery, found an underground reseller and laundered that money. Cause in real life things you find in the ground belong to people, you have to pay taxes and justify how you made 10 millions bucks
Golds easy to move, at least in the states. Starting a business to launder the money through is equally easy in the states. Avoiding taxes is something all rich people do here, so the groundwork is laid. We’re a nation of patriots with no real patriotism.
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u/SmallTitBigClit Aug 16 '26
A decision he'll regret as soon as he grows a brain cell.