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$300K in Gold Dust Found in Sacramento Home

Kyle Dowling — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:15:04 +0000

If you live in Sacramento, it’s time to start tearing out the walls: these homeowners stumbled over roughly $300,000 in gold dust during a heater installation. Back in September, two HVAC installers from the company Clark & Rush found twelve baby food jars filled to the top with gold dust. In a moment which must [...]

Mid-Michigan Police Investigate Cash for Gold Scam [VIDEO]

Fantone — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:10:15 +0000

If you watch television, you're all to familiar with companies offering you serious money for your old gold or offering to sell you gold coins for pennies on the dollar. A lot of the time the offers seem too good to be true, which is a good sign that you're dealing with a scam. Check out the story involving Michaganders getting swindled.

Ndamukong Suh Is Detroit's Highest Paid Athlete, 14th World Wide

Fantone — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:39:59 +0000

There are a lot of guys getting paid a lot of money to play sports, and in the D, nobody brought home more in the past year than Ndamukong Suh. Check out the amount of money that landed him the number 14 spot on Forbes’ 100 Top Paid Athletes. Listen, I know the city of [...]

Flint Firefighter Jobs Saved By Federal Grant

Fantone — Wed, 30 May 2012 19:34:48 +0000

It wasn’t too long ago that we reported on Flint raising taxes and laying off police and firefighters. Luckily, those firefighters will be keeping their jobs, thanks to a $6.9 million dollar grant, which was finalized today by city officials. If you pay attention to what’s going on in the city, you know that Flint [...]

Man Digs Up $150K In His Backyard Garden

Maggie Meadows — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:31:17 +0000

This is where your morals really come in to play. A classic what would you do question. An Illinois man went out to his garden to grab some broccoli to add to his dinner, and spotted bags full on money buried in his garden.

Wayne Sabaj at first thought the bags were liter. Not so much. Sabaj was completely shocked when he realized the bags were full of 20 dollar bills. He immediately took the money inside to show his father. The pair counted the cash and could not believe it, $150 thousand dollars!

Guy Pays for Impounded Car with 8,800 Pennies

Tim Gray — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:17:47 +0000

Apparently this guy went to the pub the night before, parked his car and when he left the bar his car was impounded. The video starts out with three guys in a car explaining the situation, the guy that got his car impounded said that since he had to walk 15-20 miles home, he was going to "inconvenience" the impound lot for his inconvenience of walking home by paying the $88 impound fee in pennies -- that's 8,800 pennies.