The FBI would have saved themselves a bunch of time and money, if they had simply been as skeptical as these articles like these provide. Then they'd have just told Dennis to "go pound sand" years ago. Ie.: Told him: "No you can't dig , and no we're not interested"
Naturally Dennis would have construed that as absolute proof that a treasure was there (and that the govt. is trying to "hide it" by saying "no"). But at least they would have saved themselves a big headache.
Wasn't Dennis the same joker years ago, that tried to get permission to dig up a civil war grave in a Historic CW monument park somewhere ? Claiming there was $$ in the grave. Yup, the plot of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti western. And.... surprise surprise: The park people said "no".
That is just crazy that no one did their homework ahead of time on the nature of Dennis's past, and the nature/origin of this story. They would have saved a bunch of taxpayer $$. And now their perpetual headaches of fighting off Dennis' legal battles !!
And to add to the misery, this topic has gotten guys kicked off a fairly good forum. I admit that I'm a brash loudmouth and ... uh ... "outspoken" on certain md'ing topics, sure.
But the more I read this summary, the more I realize that this is a topic that darned-well-SHOULD have been discussed. It is
not a subjective matter to which-reasonable-people disagree. It's an OBJECTIVE matter to which there is a true-side to the debate. And it has serious consequence and expense in the balance. (Not to mention making md'rs look like a bunch of nuts to the general public. Very embarrassing
)
goDeep, if you ever come through CA, I've got a cold 12-pack of your favorite brew waiting for you.