Awwww.

"Finders-keepers may be the law of the playground, but it's certainly not the law of Massachusetts," Littlefield's lawyer, Jeffrey Scuteri, told The Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence.

Newbury woman, roofers feud over 'buried treasure' - Boston.com

Bummer. I suppose that applies to pulling pigtails too, huh? How is a guy ever gonna meet cute girls? (Actually the coolest thing to do with pigtails was dip them in inkwells, but then they quit putting inkwells in the desks and there went that sport, right there.)

Ah, well. progress is progress, and you gotta take the bitter with the sweet. And in the case of the "buried treasure" (not really buried but put in cans and hidden years ago in the eaves of a barn by the present owner's great uncle, and thereafter forgotten), progress has multipled its value by a factor of 100: the face value of the money in the cans is about $7,000, but as a collection it may be worth more than $700,000. So that's a lot of sweet part right there. The bitter part is Jeffrey Scuteri, who says the money belongs to the woman who owns the barn and not to the two guys who found it there.

Or, I guess they're arguing about the money. Maybe the guys just want to keep the cans. They're really fun to kick.

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