57-Year-Old Man Accidentally Throws 20 Gold Bars Worth $140K into the Garbage

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57-Year-Old Man Accidentally Throws 20 Gold Bars Worth $140K into the Garbage​

• A 57-year-old Italian man accidentally threw away a tin containing 20 gold bars, worth around $142,000
• The unnamed man placed the bars into a public bin in Torre Lapillo, a beachside hamlet in the country's Puglia region
• After several hours of "careful sifting," authorities located the tin at the local landfill and returned the gold bars so their rightful owner

A man in Italy accidentally threw 20 bars of gold into the garbage.

On Thursday, Feb, 12, the police revealed that a 57-year-old man in southern Italy took out his trash without realizing that his gold, worth around 120,000 euros ($142,000), was inside, according to Corriere della Sera, Reuters, and Italien News.

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[Casey Jones]

That actually hits close to home.

I started stacking about two years before I found my self living as a nomad for six years. Now, of course, it's known that a hotel room is not the best place to store sleeves of k-rands. Even aside from sticky-fingered maids; there's fire; the chance the staff could throw you out for BS reasons or move you for administrative needs. Move you when you're not there - everything makes it but your bag of rounds.

At my longer stops, I started using storage units. First couple of cities, I had my play-car, my Jeep, with a heavy-gauge steel locking console. Then, the thing broke, and I was already tired of moving it (move #3). So I sold the Jeep, and put my boxes in a rented storage locker. Outside roll-top door, you know the thing.

Worked well, except for heavy sweating in spring of the concrete floor, frozen underneath. But in moving, I found the soft bag I had the canvas bag put into, had split open from pushing other things around, and the canvas non-locking bank bag I had, had spilled. The sleeve broke and k-rands were rolling everywhere. Jay-sus.

To this day, I'm not sure I got them all. I sure did look; but things weren't private enough that I could sit down and count. My tally sheet was also missing.

This is the other side of opting out, from "professional" banking and money management. They don't lose things or make mistakes - they just steal in ways we could never dream up.