DARWIN AWARD: Men Who Claimed to Find Treasure Arrested

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LAWRENCE, Mass. - A group of men who made national headlines by claiming they found a buried treasure worth up to $125,000 was charged Friday with stealing the collection of old currency from a barn where they were working.


.... The men had made several appearances on national television this week, and police noticed details of the story changed with each appearance.

Police Chief Joseph E. Solomon told ABC's "Good Morning America" that authorities might never have suspected anything had the men not sought publicity.

"Had they just put the money away or, you know, gone somewhere outside of the area and sold a little money at a time, I don't think anybody would have known or suspected anything," Solomon said. "Sometimes wanting to be famous is really the downfall of people."

The arrest interrupted the men's planned appearance Thursday night on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" because they were being booked by police around the time the show was airing. They were to have been interviewed from the yard where they claimed to have found the money while digging.

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[Roland99]

1. I saw them on ABC's Good Morning America

They came off like complete and utter idiots. Their redneck vernacular was annoying.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

2. What dipsh*ts! n/t

[tsakshaug]

3. the picture

would make a nice CD cover

[notadmblnd]

4. and the title could be

Idiots or some variation of the word.

[China_cat]

5. Dumb as dirt but not Darwin award material.

That goes to dumb as dirt who take themselves out of the gene pool, die without progeny.

[billyskank]

8. I suspect that most Darwin awards are urban legends anyway

Especially the one about the guy who built a rocket car.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. I thought Darwin Awards were for idiots who got themselves killed...

in extraordinarily stupid ways. :shrug:
Duckie

[Abelman]

10. Close

also to people who render themselves incapable of having offspring. So you don't have to die, but you may as well be.

[Willy Lee]

7. No one has come out and said it was stolen...

the cops are suspicous about their story. They look like hooligans. Ergo- they MUST be guilty.

sheesh.

[DS1]

9. Yeah, they don't look like the guy that was on Kimmel

:shrug:

[Blue-Jay]

11. Idiots.