Current Events > Treasure chest hidden in Rocky Mountains finally found

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https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/forrest-fenns-treasure-hidden-rocky-mountains-found-71122597

Remember hearing about this story years ago
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God, what a baller. So rich that you decide to put on a treasure hunt with no time limit.

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Wow.

I expected the chest to be much older than that. Still a cool story.

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Is this the one they covered on buzzfeed?


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DuranOfForcena posted...

nope

that's pretty fucked up, yo

Their choice to go on the search
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charge the hider of the chest with manslaughter

DuranOfForcena posted...

nope

Hundreds of thousands have hunted in vain across remote corners of the U.S. West for the bronze chest believed to be filled with gold coins, jewelry and other valuable items. Many quit their jobs to dedicate themselves to the search and others depleted their life savings. At least four people died searching for it.

that's pretty fucked up, yo

People also died playing Pokemon Go. How's this different? I'm too tired to think straight.
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i wish the dude would come out

but some fuckbag would prob try to kill him

Ah, so it was kinda like this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book)

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nevershine posted...

Is this the one they covered on buzzfeed?

nm I found it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsuWS6yE478

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Zikten posted...

charge the hider of the chest with manslaughter

This is a really dumb take.

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Wait a second...

So some guy claimed that he put a box full of treasure out in the wilderness, with - of course - no proof of doing so.

The same guy now claims that a mysterious person has found it after however many years, with - of course - no proof of anyone finding it.

Someone tell me how this is news.

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Pogo_Marimo posted...

This is a really dumb take.

this

why is it his fault?

Perfectinsanity posted...

Wait a second...

So some guy claimed that he put a box full of treasure out in the wilderness, with - of course - no proof of doing so.

The same guy now claims that a mysterious person has found it after however many years, with - of course - no proof of anyone finding it.

Someone tell me how this is news.

Do you honestly think someone would lie? On the internet no less?

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Odoylerules posted...

why is it his fault?

he egged on the situation. and encouraged it. you can argue they chose to go out on their own. but he started the whole thing. it would not have happened if he had never hidden the chest

What was inside? The hookshot?

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Zikten posted...

he egged on the situation. and encouraged it. you can argue they chose to go out on their own. but he started the whole thing. it would not have happened if he had never hidden the chest

So is every person who has advocated people to partake in slightly dangerous activities like exploring the wilderness responsible for every death that follows?

"Man who writes book teaching people how to legally race vehicles safely indicted on manslaughter charges after car crash at race track"

If we extrapolate this degree of liability to other facets of life it quite clearly becomes silly. Maybe put even a modicum of thought into shit before you spew garbage takes.

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Pogo_Marimo posted...

"Man who writes book teaching people how to legally race vehicles safely indicted on manslaughter charges after car crash at race track"

that's in no way even close to the same thing. YOU are shitposting not me

DuranOfForcena posted...

Hundreds of thousands have hunted in vain across remote corners of the U.S. West for the bronze chest believed to be filled with gold coins, jewelry and other valuable items. Many quit their jobs to dedicate themselves to the search and others depleted their life savings. At least four people died searching for it.

Sounds like something out of an Elder Scrolls game's quest.


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Zikten posted...

that's in no way even close to the same thing. YOU are shitposting not me

Why isn't it? What are the elements of the actual crime that are different? Guy writes a book, talks about how you can make money doing a dangerous, but legal, activity, encourages people to take up dangerous activity. People die after reading his book and taking up dangerous activity.

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racing on a track or getting a NASCAR career or whatever is not the same thing as laughing about people trying to find something you hid in the wilderness and then watching people die. and people are more likely to die hunting the savage wilderness than safely racing on a NASCAR track.

Were_Wyrm posted...

Do you honestly think someone would lie? On the internet no less?

Good point. I secede.

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I miss when ARG's where the cool thing to do.

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Zikten posted...

laughing about people trying to find something you hid in the wilderness and then watching people die

Hahahaha! You can't be serious?
Do you think this guy hid a chest full of riches in the wild so that he could secretly trail people to amuse himself when (or if) they got themselves killed?

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why else did he do it? he set it up as an entertaining stunt

Zikten posted...

racing on a track or getting a NASCAR career or whatever is not the same thing as laughing about people trying to find something you hid in the wilderness and then watching people die. and people are more likely to die hunting the savage wilderness than safely racing on a NASCAR track.

Alright, so first off you are already assuming malicious intent without proving it. It's pretty clear from the author's actions and words that the entire point of this was to encourage people to experience and enjoy nature more. Again, you're piling on dumb reasoning on top of your already dumb reasoning. This is proof that you are inherently biased against the author of this, which already undermines any statements you may make.

Second, far, FAR more people die in vehicle accidents every year than in the wilderness. Car accidents are one of the leading causes of death in the United States. While we don't have good per capita estimates of actual death per 100,000 participants for motorsports, we can probably safely assume that it is an inherently dangerous activity. How did you reach the conclusion that exploring the wilderness is more dangerous than motorsports? Did you just assume it is? Are you just blindly using your intuition? I'll give you a hint: You did, and I know you did.

So if you think advocating exploring the wilderness through a financial interest should be a criminally liability, but advocating motorsports through a financial interest should NOT be a criminal liability, you have to demonstrate where the reasonable cut-off is for death or injuries per year per 100,000 participants is, as well as prove that motorsports is below that cut-off, but exploring the wilderness is not. What level of danger is okay to advocate for, and what level is not? If you can come up with a better standard that can be applied equally across all jurisdictions, I'd love to hear it. If you cannot come up with a reasonable standard that can be applied consistently to all advocate activities, then you are just blindly reacting to something without any rationale.

Even beyond that, though, I would argue that it violates basic human rights and our 1st Amendment protections to make it illegal to advocate for experiencing the wilderness. How much of a narrow-minded cartoon villain would you need to be to criminalize advocating experiencing nature just because there is some inherent danger in it? Talk about bad optics.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(treasure_hunt)

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i'm not trying to ban exploring the woods. but making people go out for a challenge you created makes you responsible if they die

Zikten posted...

i'm not trying to ban exploring the woods. but making people go out for a challenge you created makes you responsible if they die

He didn't make anyone do anything. Refute any of the points of my post instead of just reiterating your claim without any actual evidence or reasoning. You're not even defending you're point here, you're just being stubborn and reiterating your opinion over and over again. Good lord. What a waste of time you are.

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Creating a voluntary event doesn't make you responsible for people harming themselves by volunteering. Not at all.

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I congratulate the thousands of people who participated in the search and hope they will continue to be drawn by the promise of other discoveries, he said on his website.

Except for those 4 people, who are dead lol.

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Pogo_Marimo posted...

He didn't make anyone do anything. Refute any of the points of my post instead of just reiterating your claim without any actual evidence or reasoning. You're not even defending you're point here, you're just being stubborn and reiterating your opinion over and over again. Good lord. What a waste of time you are.

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