A fun story that my boss told me. Just thought Id share

[mil-hunter]

A fun story that my boss told me. Just thought I'd share

When I was working construction last year my boss and I were talking about finding neat stuff in houses that were being remodeled after finding an old letter from 1944 from a soldier.
He told me about a good friend of his back east who bought a civil war era house in Virginia. The house was bought with the intention of remodeling it and then his buddy would live there. Well, all went well on the remodle until he got to the fireplace. He was going to re-hash the whole layout of the room, and started stripping the walls. This is when things got really interesting. In one of the said walls near the fireplace he discovered a nice little cache of un-used or barely used Civil war Muskets. There were 18 in all. Needless to say the old owner got wind of this and tried to claim that they were his and that he hid them, but nobody really listened to him, since it was apparent that they had been there LONG before he had been alive.

I just thought that this was kind of a neat story. And I wanted to share it with everyone.

Mil-hunter

 

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[bomber]

Re: A fun story that my boss told me. Just thought I'd share

cool story,ya never know

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Re: A fun story that my boss told me. Just thought I'd share

JIO. Loved it, more.


Don Jose de La Mancha

 

[Mobes]

Re: A fun story that my boss told me. Just thought I'd share

Cool story, you just never know what the previous people did when they were there. I have a friend that went into an old abandoned house and in the attic he found 2 or 3 conferate 1 dollar bills. I also know that I had an uncle who collected all sorts of coins and hid jars in the walls where he could get to in the attic spaces. When his house got sold he wasn't sure he even found them all due to the fact he couldn't remember where and how many there were. Who knows what he left behind.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Re: A fun story that my boss told me. Just thought I'd share

There's a true story of an antebellum home, bought by a newlywed couple, in the deep south. The house was a fixer-upper that needed a lot of work, so they set about the task. During work on a closet, the husband discovered a false wall, with an 1800s safe behind it!

Try as they may, they couldn't open it, because of course, they didn't have the combination. So they started calling around to locksmiths in their town. A few came out to look at it. None of them could open it, because it was such an antique, that it was out of their know-how. So the young couple contacted locksmiths in a bigger town in their state. Same thing, none could figure out how to open up the safe, short of cutting it up with torches or something.

During the time all this was occuring, the couple researched the history of their home and acreage, and discovered that during a portion of the 1800s, it had been lived in by a very wealthy person. Upon his death, not all of his estate/wealth had been accounted for. Upon learning this, the young couple was CERTAIN that the safe MUST have lots of old money in it

They were eventually referred to a professional locksmith from Chicago, who was reknowned for his knowledge of historical safes. They called him and explained their predicament, told him the brand, wording, etc... He confirmed that .... "yes", he could crack the safe, given the proper amount of time. He told the young couple that they would need to fly him down to their southern state, at the couple's expense, pay for his room and board, and pay his hourly rate for his entire trip, which wasn't cheap for this expert locksmith!

The day came when the locksmith flew down. He spent nearly all day with his stethescopes and tools working on it. Finally, near the end of the day, it worked! The handle moves ..... the door opens ...... and inside was the following:

A paper clip! The couple was crushed, having spent thousands to get it open. The locksmith accepted his payment, got back on his plane, and flew back to Chicago.

True story!

 

[Ryan1979]

Re: A fun story that my boss told me. Just thought I'd share

There's a true story of an antebellum home, bought by a newlywed couple, in the deep south. The house was a fixer-upper that needed a lot of work, so they set about the task. During work on a closet, the husband discovered a false wall, with an 1800s safe behind it!

Try as they may, they couldn't open it, because of course, they didn't have the combination. So they started calling around to locksmiths in their town. A few came out to look at it. None of them could open it, because it was such an antique, that it was out of their know-how. So the young couple contacted locksmiths in a bigger town in their state. Same thing, none could figure out how to open up the safe, short of cutting it up with torches or something.

During the time all this was occuring, the couple researched the history of their home and acreage, and discovered that during a portion of the 1800s, it had been lived in by a very wealthy person. Upon his death, not all of his estate/wealth had been accounted for. Upon learning this, the young couple was CERTAIN that the safe MUST have lots of old money in it

They were eventually referred to a professional locksmith from Chicago, who was reknowned for his knowledge of historical safes. They called him and explained their predicament, told him the brand, wording, etc... He confirmed that .... "yes", he could crack the safe, given the proper amount of time. He told the young couple that they would need to fly him down to their southern state, at the couple's expense, pay for his room and board, and pay his hourly rate for his entire trip, which wasn't cheap for this expert locksmith!

The day came when the locksmith flew down. He spent nearly all day with his stethescopes and tools working on it. Finally, near the end of the day, it worked! The handle moves ..... the door opens ...... and inside was the following:

A paper clip! The couple was crushed, having spent thousands to get it open. The locksmith accepted his payment, got back on his plane, and flew back to Chicago.

True story!

OUCH!!

 

[Lady_Huntress]

Re: A fun story that my boss told me. Just thought I'd share

treasure like gold is where ya find it eh

 

[Maryland Searcher]

Re: A fun story that my boss told me. Just thought I'd share

Hey, a thousand dollar paperclip is a thousand dollar paperclip! At least they can brag they have the most expensive one on the face of the earth (witht he exception of the Pentagon or Whitehouse)!!!

 

[hollowpointred]

Re: A fun story that my boss told me. Just thought I'd share

even though it was empty i would imagine an antique safe would be worth something. no?