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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Norwegian man to be billed for finding archaelogical site.

Posted: 8/26/2004 12:39:37 PM EDT

www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article826737.ece

Guy finds a viking pier, then gets billed for the fees to excavate it. Now encouraging others not to report their finds to the government.

Other enjoyable headlines on their site too....
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article824116.ece
and also
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article824743.ece

Posted: 8/26/2004 12:42:28 PM EDT

[#1]

Østerlie's excitement over the discovery quickly cooled, however, when he was ordered to pay NOK 100,000 (about USD 14,000) to secure the area.

He protested the big bill and won a partial reprieve, only to be told he'd need to pay NOK 40,000 instead as the landowner's contribution towards excavation costs.

{kicks something into lake}

Vat speir?

edit-You aren't kidding, are those other articles for real?

Norway still the worlds best place to live
Swimmer had snake in shorts
Seven-year-olds carrying mobile phones
Tourists recover after horses ran amok

nevermind. they're all funny

Posted: 8/26/2004 12:46:35 PM EDT

[#2]

When I was a kid at our summer house in Denmark, we used to climb down the cliffs and snorkle off the rocky beach all summer.

One year, some kids who did the same about 300 YARDS south of where we snorkled, found an actual Viking trading ship with lots of cool stuff - including gold coins - on board

. Since it was on public land, nobody had to pay anything - but I remember everyone thought it was pretty lame that the government wouldn't let them keep at least one of the gold coins each or something.

Posted: 8/26/2004 1:06:12 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
When I was a kid at our summer house in Denmark, we used to climb down the cliffs and snorkle off the rocky beach all summer.

One year, some kids who did the same about 300 YARDS south of where we snorkled, found an actual Viking trading ship with lots of cool stuff - including gold coins - on board . Since it was on public land, nobody had to pay anything - but I remember everyone thought it was pretty lame that the government wouldn't let them keep at least one of the gold coins each or something.

"Gold coins, nope didn't see any gold coins; just a bunch of old junk. There were gold coins there? Cool."

Posted: 8/26/2004 1:12:44 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Quoted:
When I was a kid at our summer house in Denmark, we used to climb down the cliffs and snorkle off the rocky beach all summer.

One year, some kids who did the same about 300 YARDS south of where we snorkled, found an actual Viking trading ship with lots of cool stuff - including gold coins - on board . Since it was on public land, nobody had to pay anything - but I remember everyone thought it was pretty lame that the government wouldn't let them keep at least one of the gold coins each or something.

"Gold coins, nope didn't see any gold coins; just a bunch of old junk. There were gold coins there? Cool."

Me be blind in one eye and can't see out me other one!

AHRRRRRRR!

BigDozer66

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Norwegian man to be billed for finding archaelogical site.

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