German girl finds gold bar while swimming in Alpine lake
 

The 16-year-old girl, who was on holiday, found it about two metres (6.5ft) under the surface on 7 August and handed it in to police.

German girl finds gold bar while swimming in Alpine lake - Europe - World - The Independent

I bet you there is a lot more hidden nearby.

handed it in to police:1orglaugh

stupid idiot went and handed it over to the police :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

"divers found nothing more of value" ......:1orglaugh

she is a dumbass lol

Looks like a propeller took some off it

HOw much is that worth- too lazy to google it.

More likely the serial numbers scratched off. Probably hot.

Oh, hah. Yup. I was wondering.

$25,000

Could have paid for her first year of college

Roughly 18k USD

Shit i was way off, my google search said $50.80 per gram

Beautiful lake and location and where Hitler hung out.

Spent many a day riding my bike in the area and checking out the topless sunbathers as a kid.

Is the law in Germany the same as the UK. If you hand something into the police as 'lost & found'. After a month or maybe 2, the item becomes the property of the person/s whom found it :thumbsup

Personally, no name, no claim, she should have kept it :winkwink:

500 grams = 1.1 lbs or 17.6 OZ and at current gold prices that would be $19,806.30 USD.

+1 :thumbsup

Not sure you pay for college in Germany.

:Oh crap

My wife's uncle passed a few weeks ago - last week his widow won $1m lottery
 

edit - deleted

oh god what a dumb bitch

riiiiiiight.....

:winkwink:

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh
AFAik college in Germany is free..and if its not - it doesnt cost 25,000 $/ year, more like 3,000 $ year :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Would you hand it over to police??? :)

<sarcasm>good to see how many honest people are on this board </sarcasm>

and if it's not stolen or claimed by someone that can prove he lost it, she can keep it. Legally.

(and college is mostly free in Germany)

Not too many honest people left in this world judging by the comments

I like to think i'm an honest guy too, but I must say I would have kept it and sold it in czech republic/slovakia rather then here just to not leave a trail - probably after cutting it into smaller pieces.

It's not like someone was taking their gold bar out for a swim...it got there somehow.

lucky girl...

Well, it's definitely not nazi gold.
History
Company stamped on it founded in 2010, same logo.

It's probably a stolen gold bar with the serial number grinded off, but she'll get to keep it. How is anyone goign to prove this is THEIR gold bar with no serial number and even the weight not matching now due to the grinding?

WOW what is with people finding large amounts of money or now gold and turning it over to the police? That would be the last place I would turn anything over unless there is good Id with cash. If I found cash with NO id or gold that shit would be spent only by me and my family! LOL

good old nazi treasures :) and lucky she, now give up with school and return and find all of them! :thumbsup

Like in most civilized countries :2 cents:

It is not that many of them - those who do not turn in are just not being described in news...

average tuition for public college is $10k/year in America

why is this an opportunity to insult America and Americans for you?

you really need to jump on that bandwagon?

If you look real close, you can see Jewish suffering. I wonder how many Jews were killed to make that nugget?

WHYYY ????

http://i.imgur.com/Du2fqXn.jpg

Truly a sad sad story :( wish I could find one though. :)

How is that an insult?

I said in most, not in all.
If I said in all then that would be an insult.
Since I said in most - that leaves America as civilized country as well.
Zero insult.