All that glitters is gold...

[Dino Scuderia]

...unless there isn't any there. This fool would have kept digging until his house fell in the hole....and they should have let him.

SoCal Gold Digger Makes 60 Foot Hole In Front Yard

POSTED: 12:40 pm PDT June 14, 2006
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MONTCLAIR, Calif. -- Workplace safety officials say they're planning a visit Wednesday to the Montclair home of a man who dug a 60-foot-deep hole in his front yard while digging for gold.

Monclair is in San Bernadino County, about 90 miles northwest of San Diego.

They're coming to determine how to shore up and fill the hole that 63-year-old Enrique Mora says he began digging ten days ago after his gold detector reported a positive hit near his front patio.

He says he only planned to go down three or four feet but got "carried away."

Fire officials called to the scene Tuesday found two men that Mora hired inside the unreinforced hole, using a bucket and rope to remove dirt.

Montclair fire Captain Rich Baldwin says officials made him stop and fenced off his property. He says Enrique will be required to hire and pay for a licensed engineer to secure the hole.

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[clutch-monkey]

Originally Posted by Dino Scuderia

He says he only planned to go down three or four feet but got "carried away."

what a champ
was this in the middle of subrurbia?

[Turbo_man]

lol I heard this on the radio this morning.

[The_Canuck]

Thats really funny...walking your dog and bam! wheres spot?

[Egg Nog]

Woah, what an idiot.

He assumed it was gold when his metal detector went off? And dug 60 feet assuming that it could actually pick up a return signal from metal 60 feet down? Holy crap some people are dumb. Even if there was gold that's a stupid idea.

It would have been kinda funny if he earned himself a Darwin Award during a collapse.