Some Rogue Thoughts...

I hate careless Rogues. I imagine because I used to be one. You can't tell Rogues anything.

A month or so ago I saw a post on treasurenet. It caught my eye because it was asking about a subject I am an expert on.

After posting a map for them and questioning the poster, I knew what they had in mind. I freaked out and deleted parts of my post. I replied I would not talk about the subject on a public forum and that they needed to email me.

This person had some research (that was highly questionable) and some GPS coordinates for a large treasure ( heard that before). Well based on the subject of the treasure tale, I knew the story was phony. That did not bother me. What bothered me was that it was in a highly dangerous area.

In the past I have tried to recruit experienced treasure hunters with desert experience to go there on a adventure that could have been highly profitable. I could find no one willing to go with me. These were the best of the best desert rats that I knew of. They knew the danger was real and were not willing to risk it.

So here I had and still have a lead with an unimaginable payoff but no one to go with me. I am smart enough to not try this alone with the danger element.

So anyway I try to convince this poster of the real danger. The person is just graduating from a Northern College and is wanting to go to the most dangerous area of the Arizona desert.

I try to tell them of the real danger. I even offer to pay for the adventure and furnish everything that they might need and offer to go to the area myself to make sure this person makes it out alive.

Instead of doing the smart thing and counting their lucky stars that they have found someone who know what they are doing, this person gets sarcastic with me.

What do I do? I blow them off, knowing that if they do make this trip they will likely not make it out alive. I also withheld some crucial information that they needed in the highly unlikely chance they make it out alive.

So, If they do make it out of the danger area they will loose any treasure they find to the government. But I am not real worried about their trove getting eaten by Uncle Sam. Why because the treasure does not exist, and even if it did exist it is under several tons of rock that this person does not have any way to move to get to the treasure.

You can't help some people.