The Sunday Mail
A man who was informed of a concrete box buried in his garden six years after moving in decided to dig it up.
Digging up a box of buried treasure in the garden and making our millions is a scenario we all dream about.
So when one man discovered a heavy concrete box hidden a couple of feet beneath the dirt at his home, it seemed like maybe he had hit the jackpot — but it did not quite contain the goods we would all have been hoping for.
“I was doing some gardening in my back yard today and I uncovered some sort of crazy, secret concrete box in the ground. I found a handle after digging for a while, then after digging for a bit more I uncovered a second handle. I kept going until I got it cleaned to the point where I could start to attempt to lift it up,” said Mr Tony Huisman.
“When I tried it was a little heavy so then I brought in the big guns. And you will never believe what I found.”
Mr Huisman then films himself running away from the box as he retches and pulls his top to cover his mouth, revealing that what he had dug up was the septic tank for his house.
“We didn’t know we were on septic system. I have lived here for six years, the landlord before me had lived here for two years, and the people before us had a garden bed right over the top of where the septic tank is. So who knows how long it’s been since it’s been cleaned — like eight plus years?” adds Mr Huisman.
“And the contents in there, it was like the consistency of Jell-O. But not Jell-O you want to eat.”
The video racked up thousands of comments.
Tattoo of son’s name
causes unrest
A man took to social media to ask whether he was being unreasonable for refusing to listen to his girlfriend after she asked him to remove the tattoo of his son’s name.
In an anonymous post on Reddit, the 26-year-old man explained that when he was 18, he and his ex-girlfriend tragically lost their son after he was born prematurely.
“I loved him the minute he was born,” he said, “It was hard and it messed me up for a long time.”
Sometime after he passed, he got his son’s name tattooed on his chest with his birth-date on it. But because he would have to be shirtless for it to be on show, his current girlfriend did not see it right away — and when she eventually did, he told her the meaning behind it.
He said: “Now she says it’s been bothering her for a while, didn’t wanna say anything before because she thought she would get over it.”
But the problem is, his son’s name is the same as her ex’s name.
He said: “He was horrible, like pure evil and she went through a lot to get him out of her life permanently.”
Seeing him with his name on his chest is a constant reminder, which is why she’s asked him to get it removed.
He wrote: “My girlfriend says she knows it’s my son’s name and all but times when we are at the beach and I am shirtless or we are showering together or about to get into it, she sees my tattoo and her mind goes to him.
“I told her I don’t wanna have it removed. It means something to me having my son’s name on me because he’s not a part of my life in any other way.
“I tried to be sincere and understanding because I know her ex was s*** but my girlfriend is still mad at me…”
Bungle costs mafia fugitive
A mafia fugitive was caught in the Caribbean after appearing on YouTube cooking videos in which he hid his face but inadvertently showed his tattoos, Italian police said Monday.
Marc Feren Claude Biart (53) led a quiet life in Boca Chica, in the Dominican Republic, with the local Italian expat community considering him a “foreigner”, police said in a statement.
He was betrayed by a YouTube channel in which he showed off his Italian cooking skills.
The videos never showed his face, but the tattoos on his body gave him away, they said.
Biart had been on the run since 2014, when Italian prosecutors ordered his arrest for trafficking in cocaine in the Netherlands on behalf of the Cacciola clan of the ‘Ndrangheta mafia.
Based in Calabria, the region that forms the tip of Italy’s boot, the ‘Ndrangheta is considered one of the world’s most powerful crime syndicates due to its control of most of the cocaine entering Europe. —Wires
