# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/141 "2011-07-12T01:41:54Z")
> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#): > > Very few houses in this country have basements. The pig and corpse are in the crawl space. It’s only a model. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/142 "2011-07-12T03:23:31Z")
I wonder what else we can get **Cicero** to do? ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/143 "2011-07-12T05:00:10Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > I wonder what else we can get **Cicero** to do? Put the pig back, with a note in it that reads, “Don’t blame me, mate! It was empty when I found it.” ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/144 "2011-07-12T05:08:06Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > And there was the pig- about six feet into the cavity. I managed to get it out. > > I knew immediately it was empty. It was so light. On the contrary, you found something far more valuable than mere money. In that humble little piggy… **cue Very Special Episode theme music** …you found your _courage_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/145 "2011-07-12T08:51:06Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I knew immediately it was empty. It was so light. Maybe not entirely empty… didn’t you see the dust wafting out of it? The spores drifting towards you? How are you feeling, btw? Maybe a little fevery? Give it a day or two till the pandemic’s well under way, then see if there are any Mods left to change your alias to “Patient Zero”… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/146 "2011-07-12T10:30:37Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > On the contrary, you found something far more valuable than mere money. In that humble little piggy… > > **cue Very Special Episode theme music** > > …you found your _courage_. > > 😉 I guffawed. **Cicero** , when you say it was empty, do you mean that you could tell by the weight that it was empty, or that you looked inside it to confirm? A million dollar bill, for example, is quite light. (OK, yes, also nonexistent. However, there are things that have value but as good as no weight.) Are you positive that your crawlspace isn’t littered with half a dozen different pigs? All arranged in different spots under your house, as if they were waiting for, I don’t know, some sort of signal before stirring into action? Like, oh, for example, one of their number suddenly being removed from his space and taken into the target? I mean house? Maybe you should check out the entire crawlspace just to be sure. Go ahead, we’ll wait here. ---
**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 12, 2011, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/147 "2011-07-12T10:44:59Z")
I got the pig out and looked inside. If there are more pigs there, they are staying there. Thanks Hermette. You have me thinking anthrax now. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/148 "2011-07-12T11:43:11Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > It’s only a model. _Shhh._ ---
**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 12, 2011, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/149 "2011-07-12T12:16:40Z")
“What is the best treatment for Captain Trips? Need answer fast.” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/150 "2011-07-12T12:48:27Z")
Good job, Cicero! Thanks for relieving our curiosity. I was afraid it was going to be like the 14 k f g in a p f d or whatever. ---
**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 12, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/151 "2011-07-12T14:03:02Z")
Hey! Maybe there’s pirate treasure buried somewhere under that crawlspace. Why wouldn’t there be? ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/152 "2011-07-12T14:56:38Z")
I’m holding out until I see photographic evidence of said pig having been removed. ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/153 "2011-07-12T15:42:07Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Good job, Cicero! Thanks for relieving our curiosity. I was afraid it was going to be like the 14 k f g in a p f d or whatever. Crap! I was just going to reference this. Darn you, **Anaamika**! _shakes fist_ ---
**Author:** ![bunnymom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@bunnymom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunnymom)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/154 "2011-07-12T15:50:53Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > “What is the best treatment for Captain Trips? Need answer fast.” I saw what you did there… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/155 "2011-07-12T15:57:18Z")
I know how it got down there, and why it was empty! Because he went under there to empty his older brother’s, long since fallen into disuse, piggy bank. He left the pig there so no one would ever be the wiser. It’s just so obvious. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/156 "2011-07-12T15:59:50Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I got the pig out and looked inside. If there are more pigs there, they are staying there. Perhaps. But this one moved itself from beneath the kitchen towards the entrance it had seen, as if trying to escape. Perhaps there are others. ---
**Author:** ![curious11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@curious11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curious11)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/157 "2011-07-12T16:10:39Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > Perhaps. But this one moved itself from beneath the kitchen towards the entrance it had seen, as if trying to escape. Perhaps there are others. Maybe the pig was a marker for something buried? ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/158 "2011-07-12T16:12:58Z")
> [@curious11](#): > > Maybe the pig was a marker for something buried? Oooo, intriguing idea! **Cicero** , go on back under the house and dig around in the area where you found the pig. Then dig around under the kitchen, just to be sure. We’ll wait here. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/159 "2011-07-12T16:49:26Z")
> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > This is turning into a superhero origin story. > > Crawlspace Man! > > Just need an electrical storm ro some chemicals or radioactive waste under there! ::Sings:: “Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig, does whatever a Spider-Pig does. . .” And the note you leave when you put it back should just say “Gotcha-Ya!” With a link to this thread. . . ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017/160 "2011-07-12T17:00:56Z")
> [@shantih](#): > > Oooo, intriguing idea! **Cicero** , go on back under the house and dig around in the area where you found the pig. Then dig around under the kitchen, just to be sure. > > We’ll wait here. Sure, that’s bound to happen any minute now. That’s Chicken Little Cicero we’re talking about, here. Remember? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buried-treasure/588017.md?page=9)