'Honesty is gold'. Woman gets to keep $18,000 gold bar after finding it on beach and handing it to p
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[QUOTE]A central coast woman, 24, has turned honesty into a handsome profit, with police handing her a solid gold bar valued at $18,000.
The Newcastle Herald reported last month that Tuggerah Lakes police were preparing to reward the woman for her honesty in handing in a serialised gold bar she found on Forresters Beach in April.
This final appeal for attention received national media coverage and the woman had to wait an extra three weeks before being given her reward.
Tuggerah Lakes duty officer Inspector Rod Peet said police received genuine inquiries from people who had been the victims of break and enters more than 10 years ago.
"Those people all had amounts of gold stolen but we were able to eliminate them from our inquiries," he said.
Police presented the gold bar to the woman on Friday, closing the investigation with the mystery remaining.
Gold Company director Roy Cohen said last month a gold bar worth $18,000 would weigh nearly 400 grams.
In Australia gold bars often weigh 100 grams, half a kilogram, a kilogram, half an ounce or an ounce, Mr Cohen said.
That could indicate the bar came from an overseas market.
Mr Cohen said gold bars could not always be traced by their serial numbers, unless an owner has kept records such as lodging the code with an insurance company.
"It can't have washed up on the beach, that's impossible. It's heavy - gold has a very specific gravity and, if anything, it would disappear under the sand."[/QUOTE]
Finders keepers much.
Source: [url]http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/police-give-woman-18000-gold-bar-20120912-25rra.html[/url]
well she found treasure at the beach a lot easier than most would
So great to hear a story like this where the finder gets to actually keep their loot. Usually the government confiscate everything.
[QUOTE=Scotchair;37640929]So great to hear a story like this where the finder gets to actually keep their loot. Usually the government confiscate everything.[/QUOTE]
Like the time a waitress got a several thousand dollar tip, turned it in to the police, and they kept it because it [i]maybe[/i] was made from drug deals, but had absolutely nothing to suggest that?
She did the obvious, because let's face it, if you find a gold bar on the beach and take it to some gold evaluation dude to get money from it, you have cops on your ass in no time.
Better to just hand it over and hope you get to keep it.
$18000 for 400 grams of gold. Damn. I never really understood how much gold was worth until now.
$18k worth of gold for her honesty? Well, that'll certainly come in handy later. But I wonder what she'll do with it; will she sell it on for the current worth, or will she wait until gold prices are higher, OR will she keep it as a memento?
[QUOTE=ironman17;37641780]$18k worth of gold for her honesty? Well, that'll certainly come in handy later. But I wonder what she'll do with it; will she sell it on for the current worth, or will she wait until gold prices are higher, OR will she keep it as a memento?[/QUOTE]
Use it as the most expensive paperweight.
I'd totally use it as a paperweight or something :v:
Noone would believe it to be a real gold bar :v:
If that ever happened to me the scumbag police would keep the thing.
18k would be around 10 ounces in the current market, which means it'd look similar to this:
[img]http://www.tulving.com/bullion/Monex%2010oz%20Gold%20Bar.jpg[/img]
After handling bits of pure gold and silver before, I gotta admit I can see their appeal; it's [I]shiny[/I], and in that oddly alluring sorta sense.
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That's Australinum, silly. Completly different stuff
[QUOTE=Scotchair;37640929]So great to hear a story like this where the finder gets to actually keep their loot. Usually the government confiscate everything.[/QUOTE]
It's a good way to not feel guilty if you don't hand it to the police, thinking that its better if I have it rather than the greedy government.
That was a good move bringing it to the police, it's pretty odd that someone would bring a gold bar to the beach, so the first thing that would come to thought is that it was stolen; better to confirm it with authorities than to try and sell in, only to have it found to be stolen with cops all over you.
[QUOTE=Triarii;37640890]"It can't have washed up on the beach, that's impossible. It's heavy - gold has a very specific gravity and, if anything, it would disappear under the sand."[/QUOTE]
Gold has a very specific [I]density[/I].
Shit journalism..
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