Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Russian Farmer Digs Gold


"A Russian turnip farmer who hoped to get rich by buying a metal detector to look for hidden treasure dug up a hoard of gold jewelery worth more than 1 million GBP.

But dozy Gennady Zimin, 51, from Annenkov said he thought the trinkets were junk, and asked a pal to put them on ebay for 50GBP.

He said: 'I got the metal detector second hand. I had always heard local talk of treasure around here but I would have been happy with some scrap metal.'"

Read more HERE.

Image Credits: europics.at

No comments: