Boy Finds £2.5M Gold Locket With Metal Detector

Instead of bottle caps and ridicule from his peers, 3-year-old James Hyatt found a locket worth millions with his metal detector. James and his dad found the gold locket last May in Essex. Since then the 500-year-old treasure has been appraised at around £2.5million. From the article: "James’s father Jason, 34, said: ‘My son is one of the luckiest people ever. If we go to the doctors he’ll put his hand down the side of the sofa and pull out a tenner.’"

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That's gonna be an interesting world view

[Scrameustache]

That 3 year old will now grow up KNOWING that there is actual buried treasure just under the surface... man, he'll think anything is possible if you just get the right tools and go do it!

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[Anrego]

A child with hope and enthusiasm and the belief that anything is possible.. oh man this can't be good :(

All kidding aside.. yeah.. I hope the "wow anything is possible" aspect of this takes precidence and he does something awesome for humanity. The other side is that he can probably live off that without doing anything for the rest of his life (assuming his parents give it to him).

Re:That's gonna be an interesting world view

[Anne_Nonymous]

>> A child with hope and enthusiasm and the belief that anything is possible

Don't worry, shortly the traumas adolescence will crush his spirit.

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[Anonymous Coward]

A child with hope and enthusiasm and the belief that anything is possible.. oh man this can't be good

Well, we have public schools to deal with this very situation.

Re:That's gonna be an interesting world view

[shadowrat]

This is all highly speculative. it's one thing to have a gold locket appraised at 2.4 million. It's another thing to actually find someone who will pay 2.4 million for it.

Re:That's gonna be an interesting world view

[petermgreen]

And what about inflation? You seriously think that someone will be able to live on 80k a year in 20 years time?
So you invest in something like real estate where both the capital value and the income are likely to follow inflation at least to some extent.

And of course the first thing you do is buy a house to live in yourself. Once you have no rent or mortgage to pay you can live on a relatively small ammount of money.