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The NYC bone rush! Wooly mammoth expert reveals location of 500,000 tusks worth up to $1BILLION dumped in East River by American Museum of Natural History in 1940s on Joe Rogan podcast - sparking hunt for the potential fortune
2023-01-04
  • Alaskan gold miner turned mammoth expert John Reeves revealed the location of 500,000 tusk bones allegedly dumped in New York City's East River

  • Reeves said the tusks, which were bound for the American Museum of Natural History, were dumped along East River Drive near 65th Street

  • Citing a draft report about the bone's journey from Alaska to the museum, Reeves, said they were dumped because the facility ran out of storage space

  • The revelation has kicked off a bone rush, with fortune seekers already out on the river in search of the tusks, which could fetch around $20,000 a piece

  • Altogether, the tusks, which were reportedly dumped in 1940 and most likely sank to the bottom of the river, are valued at around $1 billion
Posted by:Skidmark

#7  Overheard through a hole in the fence:
"These wood scr@ps are tiresomely dense...
Like you truckdrivers, see,
Or professors like me
Who are famously short of good sense."
Posted by: Butch Grealing6607   2023-01-04 22:03  

#6  
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-01-04 11:01  

#5  
#3 Didn't SCROTUS rule that once you put your trash at the curb, it's fair game for gummint agencies?
Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-01-04 09:19

I suspect the NY state response will be, "This is different because shut up."

Someone well connected politically will get a contract to recover them, and the state will resell them "responsibly".

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2023-01-04 10:57  

#4  Some fool is gonna jump in 33 degree water for sure.
Posted by: Mercutio   2023-01-04 10:07  

#3  Didn't SCROTUS rule that once you put your trash at the curb, it's fair game for gummint agencies?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-01-04 09:19  

#2  Watch NY state claim them.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-01-04 08:57  

#1  ...Oh, THIS I gotta see - because all that ivory is legal.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2023-01-04 08:27  

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