Gold hunters blocked from site of alleged Nazi gold train

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish authorities are taking action against treasure hunters who are swarming the site of an alleged Nazi gold train find in southwestern Poland.

The city of Walbrzych and surrounding wooded hills are experiencing a gold rush after two men said through their lawyers that they have found a Nazi train with armaments and valuables that reportedly went missing in 1945. People with metal detectors are combing the area and its railway tracks.

Provincial governor Tomasz Smolarz said Monday that police, city and railway guards are now blocking the treasure hunters to prevent any accidents with trains running on the tracks. He is also asking the military to examine the site with earth-penetrating equipment.

Authorities said numerous previous verbal reports of a find have only yielded rusty pieces of metal.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9bf0ddecdb174894aa79be910e51c1a8/gold-hunters-blocked-site-alleged-nazi-gold-train

[blackspade]

1. Good. I can't stand the looting of archaeological sites.

Treasure hunters have a horrible track record when it comes to site preservation and documentation.

[Sunlei]

7. I bet it's another mass grave from that close city :(

[blackspade]

8. That wouldn't surprise me at all....

[BlueEye]

2. I've read that the train is potentially booby-trapped.

With mines/explosives. Some have even suggested that chemical weapons were stored on board. These fortune-seekers may not appreciate the danger. The Polish government is reportedly using extreme caution in approaching the train.

[d_legendary1]

3. As they say

The riskier the road, the greater the profit. All they care about is the gold, not the damage to the train and its surroundings.

[RR2]

4. As they should N/T

[randome]

5. Send for Captain America!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]You should never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]

[Sunlei]

6. so many people were killed in those nazi countries & all of them had their small coins/jewelry

people always rake the forests and mass killing fields, ponds, lakes, train tracks with metal detectors

[yellowcanine]

9. People with metal detectors hunting around an active train line.

What could possibly go wrong?