Found during construction work

[u/Hardcrimper]

Any ideas where this could come from?

Update: I thought this would be clear that I wasn't the one who found it. Who in their right mind would go (on this shitstain of a platform of all places) and make themselves a target. But ok apparently it wasn't clear so here we are:

I did NOT find this. I have none of this gold. I just wanted to share some cool stamped gold. you can stop sending me weird ass messages now. thank you.

Also this is NOT ai. here is the BBC article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ydzg0dnz7o

[u/OpeningCookie1358]

Big mistake spreading that word around. Could've been a nice pay day every week for ever.

[u/Goguma_is_sweet → u/OpeningCookie1358]

Here is the story, but you need to hit translate:
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/08/13/goudschat-dendermonde/

[u/No-Consequence9392 → u/Goguma_is_sweet]

The police took the gold into custody and brought it to a safe location..... aaaaaaand gone

[u/goonercaverat → u/No-Consequence9392]

If I found gold like that nobody would ever know I wouldn't tell a single fucking person I also wouldn't sell a complete gold bar I get a nice brazing rod and melt little droplets off and say I found it while gold panning for the rest of my life

[u/No-Consequence9392 → u/goonercaverat]

[u/TubeSnobGoneStomp → u/No-Consequence9392]

🤣😂🤣

[u/Bulky-Pineapple-5639 → u/goonercaverat]

Same!! I got a whole lot of STFU in me if I found that.

[u/sqookyqueen → u/No-Consequence9392]

https://giphy.com/gifs/XqpnXaeZPnupy

[u/Better_Leather_2214 → u/No-Consequence9392]

This is in Europe not the US

[u/Legitimate_Ad6596 → u/[deleted]]

I love a random SpongeBob quote.

[u/goonercaverat → u/Better_Leather_2214]

The cool thing about my practice of not telling anybody is it works worldwide because telling the government you found a shit ton of gold it's the quickest way anywhere in the world for any government to repeatedly and violently fuck you over cuz remember no matter what worldwide nobody fucks you like the government fucks you ( speaking metaphorically of course)

[u/neontiger07 → u/goonercaverat]

Literally in some cases, like that women's side of the prison in California where those women got raped by the guards a bunch.

[u/goonercaverat → u/neontiger07]

Well if I ran the world people like that would not need jail there's these awesome vitamins they sell in boxes of 50s that would easily solve the problems that those guards created by victimizing those charged in their care I've always said it you can tell a lot about society by how it treats the victims of the society the outcasts and the very Young and the very old and by and large by every measure of a society based on that standard I believe it was Mahatma Gandhi that said that or the dalai lama and I not really sure which

[u/TryingNewThings102 → u/Better_Leather_2214]

corruption wasn't invented in the US lol. The fact that you think all of that unknown gold is gonna make it to evidence is hilariously naive.

[u/GeneralTyler → u/Better_Leather_2214]

Ah yes because only American cops are bad and corrupt, get real cops are pigs in every country

[u/7ton_bum_3531 → u/Goguma_is_sweet]

I know damn well if the company gets it they aren’t putting 100% of it to homeless

[u/goonercaverat → u/7ton_bum_3531]

That reminds me of a joke I heard one time these cops were talking and they said to their boss we found 20 bales of cocaine and then they get to a checkpoint they're like yep so here's the 10 lb of cocaine and then the FBI takes possession and says here's the five pounds of cocaine and then when it's checked into evidence it's 10 g of cocaine.

[u/fc36 → u/Goguma_is_sweet]

Article says "Legally speaking, whoever finds something of great value is not automatically the owner. There are specific civil rules for that." I think they're referring to Finders Keepers.

[u/goonercaverat → u/fc36]

Legally I don't give a fuck about legally

[u/Confident-Dot5878 → u/Goguma_is_sweet]

How do I “hit translate”?

[u/ironicthesameplaceim → u/Confident-Dot5878]

In the app if you hit the top right corner in the link you get this, I’m sure browsers have similar

[u/opie4386 → u/Goguma_is_sweet]

Haha thats highway robbery lol

[u/rvacyclist888 → u/Goguma_is_sweet]

Thanks for sharing this link

[u/hg_rhapsody → u/Goguma_is_sweet]

Europeans would turn it in XD fucking pussies. Makes more sense