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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Sacramento homeowners called for what was going to be an expensive new heating and air system but ending up striking gold.
Workers installing the equipment found a secret gold stash hidden away in the house.
They pride on customer service at Clark & Rush, but this is one guarantee they say they can’t make, finding gold on every house call. The total value of what they found was $300,000 worth of gold. The total cost of the HVAC installation was around
After hundreds and hundreds of HVAC installations, Steve Ottley said the jackpot discovery was one of a
“I still can’t believe it today,” he said. “It’s unreal. We kind of just looked at each other and said ‘wow’.”
Back in September, beneath the floor grill of an older home, Steve and his partner discovered 12 baby food jars filled to the brim with gold dust.
“I looked at it and said, ‘I think that’s gold,’” he said.
Clark & Rush has been in Sacramento for 50 years and they’re celebrating their golden anniversary. But don’t expect a guarantee of “gold after every
“That’s one promise we can’t make, but I can say this, the integrity and professionalism of Clark & Rush, every time we find this type of thing, we are always trustworthy and upfront,” Mark Thyne said.
Where the gold came from is still a mystery. The lucky homeowners didn’t want to be part of the story, but we’re told they’re handling their new gold
And in a moment of honesty, Steve told us for a split-second he considered sneaking off with the
“I’ve had similar incidents happened to me where jewelry and gold was taken from me,” he said.
Believe it or not, this isn’t the first time this has happened at Clark and Rush. Back in the 1980s workers discovered $25,000 worth of gold coins. -
I hate to one-up people, because I hate the one-upper type of asshole, but this story really ain't shit...
A California woman may have a multimillion dollar fortune headed her way after authorities found an estimated $7 million worth of gold coins in her recluse cousin’s home.
Walter Samasko Jr., 69, died in May due to heart problems and was not discovered until June when neighbors complained of a bad smell coming from his house.
Samasko lived in Carson City, Nev., a city about 30 miles south of Reno.
When authorities went to clean out his home, they found boxes of gold coins in his home and garage.
“He was quite a hoarder. He had boxes and boxes and boxes of things,” Carson City Clerk Alan Grover told ABCNews.com. Grover said there were many containers of food and cans.
Grover said the coins were in boxes marked “books.” There were also coins wrapped in aluminum foil and stored in ammunition boxes. There were Mexican, British and Austrian coins dating as far back as the 1870s.
There was so much gold that Grover used a wheelbarrow to carry the fortune to his truck. The coins were first moved to a bank vault and now they have been moved to armored vehicles.
Grover’s office estimated the worth of the coins at $7 million based on the amount of gold.
“We have to get it all appraised and come out with a real true figure,” he said. He added that the final figure could potentially be even larger because some of the coins might be worth more than their face value.
Samasko had no will and no immediate relatives. He was cremated and the remains were flown to Chicago to join his mother who died in 1992.
Using the funeral attendance list from Samasko’s mother’s funeral, Grover tracked down Arlene Magdanz, Samasko’s first cousin in San Rafael, Calif., who will most likely inherit the fortune.
Magdanz’s daughter Leslie Magdanz declined to comment.
“I don’t have any comment on this matter,” she told ABCNews.com. When asked if her mother had any comment, Leslie Magdanz said, “She does not.”
Grover said it could take several months for the fortune to be turned over to Magdanz.
Samasko had only $200 in the bank at the time of his death, according to the Las Vegas Sun, but had stock accounts totaling in $165,000 and had been living off of his investments.
Grover said one of his first thoughts upon seeing the thousands of coins was, “What was a guy like this doing with his kind of money in just a regular house?”
He described the house as a small, 1970′s three-bedroom home of about 1,200 square feet with orange shag carpeting.
“There were no antiques, no crystal or family jewelry or anything like that,” Grover said. “You would never have suspected the guy would have that much…he certainly didn’t live that way.”How do we forget ourselves? How do we forget our minds?
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Way to ruin a good story you one upping dick chomper!Comment
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One jar for me, the rest for you, heralded as hero."When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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old timers always say to keep yer gold.Comment
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I'm sure the fed will claim first!.....bro....Comment
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Dey found whar da gold wuz.Comment
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i wonder if the homeowners gave those workers a fat tipComment
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How would they tax something like that? It's not income, it's not inheritance, maybe there's some kind of treasure hunting tax?Originally posted by SMKR View PostComment
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Originally posted by racrguy View Post
There will be now! We all know that the gov't monitors DFWM for ideas..Comment
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Windfall profit tax.Comment
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