Ontario couple finds 400-year-old skeleton, gets $5,000 bill

[NotMe546]

A Canadian couple who recently stumbled upon a 400-year-old skeleton is now saddled with a $5,000 bill, the Star reports.

 

[navychop]

I vaguely remember something sorta similar happening in the USA, but perhaps with much more recent remains. I just remember it costing them to have revealed they found human bones. Anyone remember that story?

 

[riffjim4069]

I would gladly tell everyone where Jimmy Hoffa is buried...if it weren't for the fine.

 

[jayn_j]

I vaguely remember something sorta similar happening in the USA, but perhaps with much more recent remains. I just remember it costing them to have revealed they found human bones. Anyone remember that story?

I lived near a subdivision that ran across an 8-10000 year old Bison hunt site where the natives ran them off the cliff. The subdivision had 1/4 of its lots closed down for 3 years while the archeologists poured over it. Didn't charge them, but it definitely hurth the bottom line in not only restricting sales of those lots, but also blocking access to other lots.

 

[Cire]

Wow, that should be a funny story when people ask them how they made their money. "Oh, you know the usual, we found a dead guy in the back yard." I am slightly envious though, I wish I wish I owned some land that help something significant.

 

[primestar31]

Wow, that should be a funny story when people ask them how they made their money. "Oh, you know the usual, we found a dead guy in the back yard." I am slightly envious though, I wish I wish I owned some land that help something significant.

Made money? They are being CHARGED that money to have a study done at their expense, and that figure is just a guess!

 

[SamCdbs]

I used to work right-of-way for the government. In the old days, there was a very particular system for moving "post-Columbian" remains. Had to go to court, get a court order, move the bodies to a commercial cemetery (even if the grave was now in the middle of the woods and was of a long forgotten person who died 150 or 250 years ago. But "pre-Columbian" remains were just scraped up with the dirt and that was that. Then the feds changed the rules to the extreme in the opposite direction. Now they have to shut down the project while a detailed archeological study is done, and then move the bodies in conformance with the religious beliefs of current Indians (these are often people who dies 1000 or 1500 years ago, with no real cultural similarity to not only modern Indians, but also none to the Indians of the era of "white settlement".