3 men arrested for hunting treasure in New York sewers

[tamrock]

Three men hoping to find valuables in New York City's extensive sewer system were facing criminal charges for climbing through a manhole cover and spending several hours on a treasure hunt in the muck-filled caverns, authorities said on Friday.

Three men arrested following treasure hunt in New York City's sewers | Reuters

 

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[timemachine]

Sounds like a crappy situation.

 

[diggummup]

At least they were thinking out of the box. lol

 

[bakergeol]

Actually a guy on a Canadian treasure forum posts his adventures in the sewer system.
Does quite well in gold jewelry finds. NO S**T!!!!

 

[diggummup]

Actually a guy on a Canadian treasure forum posts his adventures in the sewer system.
Does quite well in gold jewelry finds. NO S**T!!!!

That's probably where they got the idea from, lol.

 

[OBN]

I have two friends that frequent storm drains.. Mostly coins found but I know of one who put a sifter at the end and has captured a few golds... Baltimore..

 

[austin]

I pretty much grew up in rural Texas. What's a sewer system?

 

[RustyGold]

Well that definitely puts a lid on it!

 

[OldGringo]

I pretty much grew up in rural Texas. What's a sewer system?

Austin, it's like a septic system that all your neighbors are tied into.

 

[treasure diver ct]

They do this in South Africa too, it's been on the news, a few guys have died trying to find gold in the sewers

 

[nsdq]

hope they wiped before the cuffs where on

 

[Plumbata]

I do this (sifting storm sewers, not sewage sewers, and certain creeks with shallow bedrock) and have found great stuff. 10 silvers plus gobs of other stuff in 1 day was my best haul. It's an interesting approach to treasure hunting if you aren't claustrophobic and don't mind crouching for hours.

 

[UnderMiner]

Damn, I told them it was a bad idea....

 

[Scrappy]

This was very common in New York City in the old days. Outhouses were commonly hit areas too!

And I thought we were dedicated treasure hunters! Lol

 

[ToastedWheatie]

Don't confuse a city sewer systems with storm water systems. One catches rain water from the roads via storm grates-etc, and discharges straight out somewhere (usually a river).
the other is a closed system that delivers the goo from households to treatment plants (hopefully) before discharging in the same river.

In the movies, those are always storm water systems that the detectives/ aliens/bad guys/ alligators are always walking in.
But NYC detecting? ALL of those systems are full of rats.