Whoops - should have kept mum on that...
A few days ago, it was reported that two Massachusetts men had discovered a cache of money in a back yard. They should have kept their mouth shut. Reuters
has the story:
Massachusetts Fortune Tale Too Good to Be True
In the end, the tale of buried treasure just didn't fit the bills.
Two New England men regaled television audiences this week with their story of finding 1,900 antique U.S. bank notes -- worth at least $50,000 -- in one of their backyards.
But their "Eureka!" traveled too far, too fast.
Investigators became suspicious over discrepancies in their stories and by Friday police had the men in court, saying the treasure was taken from a construction site where they had worked.
"If they had not gone ... on TV, they could have gone to New York or somewhere and just sold the money and they probably would have gotten away with it," Methuen, Massachusetts, Police Chief Joseph Solomon told ABC's "Good Morning America."
Earlier in the week, the same show had featured the men, Barry Billcliff of Manchester, New Hampshire, and Timothy Crebase of Methuen, who said they unearthed antique currency in Crebase's yard.
Ouch... Their fifteen minutes was their undoing... And the currency?
While the story may have been faked, the bills are real, said Domenic Mangano, owner of the Village Coin Shop in Plaistow, New Hampshire.
Mangano appraised the collection of bank notes, which date from 1899 to 1928, at more than $50,000.
Posted by DaveH at April 29, 2005 3:31 PM