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ShepFL

07-27-2007 10:54:07




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Hope everyone is doing good. Been away at BSA Summer Camp and contract negotiations at work. Still working on the 1650.

Check this out in the barn!! OMG!

A New York man retired. He wanted to use his retirement money wisely, so it would last, and decided to buy a farm in Portugal. The modest farmhouse had been vacant for 15 years; both the owner and wife both had died, and there were no heirs.

The house was sold to pay taxes. There had been several lookers, but the large barn had steel doors, and they had been welded shut.

Nobody wanted to go to the extra expense to see what was in the barn, and it wasn't complimentary to the property anyway... so, nobody made an offer on the place.

The NY guy bought it at just over half of the property's worth; moved in, and set about to tear in to the barn. Curiosity was killing him. So, he and his wife bought a generator and a couple of grinders... and cut thru the welds.

What was in the barn?

Go to the link www.intuh.net/barnfinds/afa70.htm
and perhaps start wishing you had bought the place. Click on the INDEX for a faster view/download.

Later,
ShepFL

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SDE

07-28-2007 08:37:57




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 Re: OT - Barn Finds in reply to ShepFL, 07-27-2007 10:54:07  
A friend had a tornado take down his barn and silo. The silo hit his truck. He purchased a different cab for it and his BIL found $700 under the carpet. Still a net loss.
SDE



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Walt Davies

07-27-2007 20:50:06




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 Re: OT - Barn Finds in reply to ShepFL, 07-27-2007 10:54:07  
Some years ago I lived near Watsonville, CA. A young couple bought an old house and decided to remove the living-room carpet. They found $180,000 dollars under it.
Walt



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noncompos

07-27-2007 21:57:43




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 Re: OT - Barn Finds in reply to Walt Davies, 07-27-2007 20:50:06  
Walt: We pried up a few living room boards in a collapsing old shack outside of Watsonville, but all we found was dried up Asparagus. (Actually, we lived in Santa Cruz; wasn't Watsonville "The Asparagus Capitol Of The World"??) Long time past.



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Walt Davies

07-28-2007 23:03:05




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 Re: OT - Barn Finds in reply to noncompos, 07-27-2007 21:57:43  
I live in Prunedale worked at Fort Ord.
Walt 1975 til 1988



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Clint Youse MO

07-27-2007 18:54:14




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 Re: OT - Barn Finds in reply to ShepFL, 07-27-2007 10:54:07  
I got an uncle that bought an acre of ground that adjoined there farm, on it was an old falling in house, and two out building sold at courthouse to pay taxes we went to take a look found a mint 64 chevy 3/4 ton 4x4 pickup in one shed and the other is full of antique furniture
he only gave a $1000 for the place.



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Fitter Roger

07-27-2007 16:50:18




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 Re: OT - Barn Finds in reply to ShepFL, 07-27-2007 10:54:07  
Gee If it was true...

Guess what was in my barn when I bought the farm last September?

2 feet of Cow %#(* that took us 25 Chevy S10 loads to haul out. We didn"t have a manure spreader back than. Up stairs in the barn was 4 feet thick of cr@3(# on hay and oats and a dead sheep. That took us 41 trips with a 80 bushel spreader to haul out.

Roger



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Luke S

07-27-2007 13:21:33




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 Re: OT - Barn Finds in reply to ShepFL, 07-27-2007 10:54:07  
Truely amazing, it'd be like wining the lottery.



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Matt from CT

07-27-2007 11:06:22




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 Re: OT - Barn Finds in reply to ShepFL, 07-27-2007 10:54:07  
Sadly, it's been snope'd.

I wasn't even looking to snope it, just for more details...



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bill mar

07-27-2007 13:05:31




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 Re: OT - Barn Finds in reply to Matt from CT, 07-27-2007 11:06:22  
gotta love snopes!



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