Blame_Game
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So I work as a site engineer on a Melbourne construction site where we are currently in the middle of demolishion works. Yesterday morning i was running through my routine site induction which involves a 25min safety video, during which i exit the room. For the first time ever when i walked back into the induction room there was an a different video playing, it was a very old (VHS) video of a woman putting on stockings which i found VERY strange, and at first i thought some one put a smut video on as a joke. Next to the TV was a big bloke of new zeland decent who put the video on. I question him about the video and he started some jibber jabber about finding a safe with stuff in it, which included this VHS. I completely ignored what he was talking about since he came across as very jumpy and under the influence. As i continued the induction, this same guy pulled out his wallet and picked out a handfull of old Australian $100 notes (the dark grey ones) and started showing them to his mates. I completely ignored him again and finished the induction.
A few hours later, one of the blokes I work with started re-laying the story to me about some guy on site who found a safe and it had $2000 worth of old notes. The guy appeared to be telling the truth but I still didnt think nothing of it.
Several hours later still, I was walking out of the office to buy lunch and I saw the same guy sitting on the side of a curb and he interupted me and said ' hey mate you didnt lit me finsh my storey earlier.' Since we both made afew joke i let him tell me the story. Apparently he was working on demo. job afew months back and they were told to throw out everything in the apartment which was owned by a deceased chinese man. On the job, there was a safe which was about to hit the dumpster but out of curiousity he decided to keep it and take it home. The safe was in his garage until very recently when he finally decided to open it. He went onto say, the safe contained 1no. VHS video, $2000 in the old Aus. notes, some very fancy and expensive stockings (apparently his missus was happy to take) and ........................a HANDFULL OF GOLD! He cupped his hand to gesture what he ment by a handfull and, this guy, with larger then average hands really meant A HAND FULL OG GOLD!
I asked him if the coins had any destinct markigns. He couldnt remember much except that some were canadian, some had 3/4 ounce written on them and they all had 999 written on them. To him this meant nothing and he clearly had NO IDEA of the value. He said he wanted to get them valued, and my big mouth (still steaming the way i played this) told him what just one ounce of gold is worth! He was clearly shocked and couldnt stop thanking me about what I'd just told him. I told him it would be wise for him not to sell any of them and continue to keep them in the safe for the next few years, although this advise fell on deaf ears!
I will ask him tomorrow to take some photos for me and I will try upload them onto here to see what you guys make of the coins. Maybe there will be something in there people find exciting.
Anywyay, thats my story for the day.
A few hours later, one of the blokes I work with started re-laying the story to me about some guy on site who found a safe and it had $2000 worth of old notes. The guy appeared to be telling the truth but I still didnt think nothing of it.
Several hours later still, I was walking out of the office to buy lunch and I saw the same guy sitting on the side of a curb and he interupted me and said ' hey mate you didnt lit me finsh my storey earlier.' Since we both made afew joke i let him tell me the story. Apparently he was working on demo. job afew months back and they were told to throw out everything in the apartment which was owned by a deceased chinese man. On the job, there was a safe which was about to hit the dumpster but out of curiousity he decided to keep it and take it home. The safe was in his garage until very recently when he finally decided to open it. He went onto say, the safe contained 1no. VHS video, $2000 in the old Aus. notes, some very fancy and expensive stockings (apparently his missus was happy to take) and ........................a HANDFULL OF GOLD! He cupped his hand to gesture what he ment by a handfull and, this guy, with larger then average hands really meant A HAND FULL OG GOLD!
I asked him if the coins had any destinct markigns. He couldnt remember much except that some were canadian, some had 3/4 ounce written on them and they all had 999 written on them. To him this meant nothing and he clearly had NO IDEA of the value. He said he wanted to get them valued, and my big mouth (still steaming the way i played this) told him what just one ounce of gold is worth! He was clearly shocked and couldnt stop thanking me about what I'd just told him. I told him it would be wise for him not to sell any of them and continue to keep them in the safe for the next few years, although this advise fell on deaf ears!
I will ask him tomorrow to take some photos for me and I will try upload them onto here to see what you guys make of the coins. Maybe there will be something in there people find exciting.
Anywyay, thats my story for the day.
