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A YouTuber was apparently thrilled to discover treasure in a junkyard Cadillac that he was about to destroy. He was casually aiming to sell off old cookbooks and other household items to raise some cash, but what he found was valuable.
Silas Manche, who runs the popular YouTube channel, Adventures Made From Scratch spends every day at the junkyard and checks more than 39 to 45 cars, and he accidentally comes across old and sometimes valuable objects.
He found a gold necklace that was hidden in the center console of the junk car. When he took a closer look, he saw it was marked “10k.” He then planned to get the item tested for authenticity. Guess what! it was his hidden junkyard treasure.
The YouTuber uses loaders to move and crush the vehicles, which have reached the end of the proverbial road.
These cars in the junkyard are checked thoroughly before they are sent to the great highway in the sky. However, the content creator goes through the junk looking for minute stuff, and his investigation paid off.
On the day he found the valuable 10k necklace, the YouTuber tried looking for items like cash, watches, or AirPods. He did manage to find a couple of dollars, some household items, and antique items like the White House Cookbook.
While most people take out all valuable items before dumping their car in the junk, he does find one diamond in the trash. Almost literally! A gold chain, studded with three shiny pink heart-shaped stones. Even though the neckpiece looks beautiful, its authenticity is yet to be tested.
However, this isn’t the only valuable item he found in the junkyard. His YouTube video shows innumerable vintage and high-end cars that must be worth dollars. Probably the cars were involved in an accident after which they ended up in the junkyard. The creator says that seeing these beautiful cars in dilapidated condition is a sad sight to witness.
In the U.S., several states have specific “lost and found” or “treasure trove” laws that require someone who finds valuables, like jewelry or cash, to report and sometimes relinquish those items to local authorities rather than keeping them outright. As per The Sun, in Georgia, a man found $400 left at a drive-thru ATM. He kept it, thinking “finders keepers,” but Georgia law views taking lost or mislaid property without attempting to return it as theft. The man was subsequently arrested.