Well this is more of a fishing camp prank, but it was funny, and I'm one of the suckers that fell for it. We sort of have a family reunion, with a few friends of family thrown in a few times each summer. It's usually way back in somewhere where you need 4x4 to get to, and there's always a crick, usually different ones where we ain't been for a while.

Like here we are . . .

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Well my cousin, Charlie, had taken some old brass and melted little drops from it and, unknown to anybody else, sprinkled a little along the edge of the crick right by camp. Nobody noticed for a day or two, but once they did, and word got out, there were people in the water trying to pan gold in frying pans, people staking micro-claims(you stay on that side of this rock and I'll stay on this side), and people talking like they had won the lottery. Charlie would sit in a lawn chair smiling and not even looking for nuggets till we figured it out.

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