# Buried treasure? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 6, 2011, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017 "2011-07-06T11:51:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Floppy\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@Floppy\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floppy_Joe)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/41 "2011-07-06T21:20:19Z")
hee hee This brings out the jerk in me. Now I’m thinking about placing a pink piggy bank under my house, just for the lulz. Whatever shall I put in it? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/42 "2011-07-06T21:37:51Z")
> [@Floppy\_Joe](#): > > …Whatever shall I put in it? A note with the URL to this thread. And make sure you put it in a spot that involves a lot of effort and dirt and cobwebs to get to. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/43 "2011-07-06T22:51:21Z")
If I were the OP, I’d post a couple of “well, I listened to you and you’re right, I’m gonna do it!” posts, then “here I go, wish me luck!” followed by “well, it was there and I opened it, and . . . oh shit, _this_ certainly isn’t what I thought it would be :eek: Don’t know if I should say more at this point. I might PM some of our legal Dopers, but otherwise let me get my bearings straight here before I talk about this. :eek:” And then disappear off the boards for a week. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/44 "2011-07-06T22:51:53Z")
> [@Floppy\_Joe](#): > > hee hee This brings out the jerk in me. Now I’m thinking about placing a pink piggy bank under my house, just for the lulz. Whatever shall I put in it? A map to [_El Corazon_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088011/plotsummary). ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/45 "2011-07-06T23:43:29Z")
I’ve slept on this and convinced myself it will be empty. Anyway, if it was a stash, why would a person leave without retrieving it? And what if I get under there and get stuck? I can see the headlines “Fat bastard croaks stealing childs piggy bank!” And the News of the World will probably hack my phone. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/46 "2011-07-07T04:10:57Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I’ve slept on this and convinced myself it will be empty. Anyway, if it was a stash, why would a person leave without retrieving it? Not to be morbid, but people do die, you know. Sometimes accidentally. Kind of hard to go back to retrieve something you buried if you accidentally fell off the roof, or something, 20 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/47 "2011-07-07T04:21:21Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I’ve slept on this and convinced myself it will be empty. Boooooo! Hissssssss! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/48 "2011-07-07T05:06:55Z")
Thanks folks. I am trying to convince myself that I don’t need to get under the house but I know I will. I will have to wait for the weekend so someone can make sure the stupid cat doesn’t follow me in and get itself locked under there. Can you imagine sneaking around in the dark and your own damn cat brushed against you- it would frighten the life out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/49 "2011-07-07T05:11:10Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > He’s sure it was a piggy bank and not a bacon grease can? > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I would imagine the lack of rats would preclude this. The dead rat he found may have died of a heart attack from too much bacon grease. Just sayin’ ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/50 "2011-07-07T05:35:24Z")
[Why?! Why my piggy why?! I LOVEDED YOU!!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_7l3Wlrc3I) YouTube link, and it’s kinda loud. CMC fnord! You do know how this works, right? If you retrieve it it’ll be empty (except for GIR’s rusty tears) but if you don’t someone else will become the richest person in the universe when _they_ do. It’s Schrödinger’s pink piggy bank. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/51 "2011-07-07T08:56:27Z")
Thanks CMC. I had to laugh about Schrodingers Piggy bank. My email address is “Schrodingers-cat@flonk.flonk.flonk.” And Askance it was a large mouse- not a rat. _sniff_. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/52 "2011-07-07T09:21:48Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > You have to figure: For it to get down there, SOMEONE had to have put it there purposefully. Someone went through the effort of going down that deep, under the house, to put it in a place they didn’t think many people would go. . Yes, but that could be a kid who hide his whole fortune of $ 3 and 27 cents. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/53 "2011-07-07T09:23:52Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > Yes, but that could be a kid who hide his whole fortune of $ 3 and 27 cents. But if he hid it there in, say, the 1930s, it would be hundreds of dollars by now! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/54 "2011-07-07T09:54:58Z")
I have a friend visiting from the other side of the country tomorrow. I wonder if I could get him drunk enough to go for me… ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/55 "2011-07-07T10:50:39Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I have a friend visiting from the other side of the country tomorrow. I wonder if I could get him drunk enough to go for me… You could have the answer to 14 k of g in a f p d in there man! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/56 "2011-07-07T11:02:51Z")
If I call my partner over one more time to “just look at this funny response…” I will be able to start a thread “Ask the guy with a pink piggy bank shoved up his arse.” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/57 "2011-07-07T12:07:35Z")
> [@SeldomSeen](#): > > … I dunno Australian snakes may be different). I know their Mambas like to bite you in the face. I bet you pork to pennies there’s not one under the house though. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/58 "2011-07-07T12:31:28Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Seriously, it seems obvious that someone removed a board in order to hide something, then covered it with aluminum and a fridge. > > Although it would be more intriguing if it was some kind of lock-box rather than a pink piggy bank. > > What if it has a safe deposit box key in it? > > Or maybe some kind of cursed ring or Egyptian scarab or something! :eek: I’ll keep an eye out for the GQ thread: “What is the best way to return The Eye of Horus to Karnak before the risen mummy of Seti III comes for me? Need answer fast.” ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/59 "2011-07-07T14:03:05Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > If I call my partner over one more time to “just look at this funny response..” I will be able to start a thread “Ask the guy with a pink piggy bank shoved up his arse.” Do it! It does solve the problem of getting the piggy bank out from under the house. Getting it out of your arse is not yet a problem, and I’m convinced our many protologist Dopers would be happy to work out the logistics of that one at the proper time. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/60 "2011-07-07T14:16:22Z")
No one cares I will be the only 2001 doper with a pig in my arse. This is cruel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017.md?page=4)