AOL, Gold Diggers

Everybody holla pre-nup. AOL is digging for gold in the suburbs with hopes of recovering some of the money they're owed. They're not searching for back service fees, rather they're going after any part of the nearly $13 million they were awarded in a judgment against Davis Hawke. A suburban native, Hawke was unsuccessful in his attempt to make it big in southern hate groups (they found out his father was Jewish) and turned instead to spamming. He made a bunch of money on the usual spam scams – Viagra, home lie detector tests, etc. In a rather intelligent move he decided not to buy fancy cars, plasma TV's, and property – all assets which are easily seized following litigation. Instead, records show and his parents (who live at the Medfield home) confirm that he purchased gold and platinum bars and stashed them away. AOL believes them to be buried near the parent's home. His parents claim that he buried them in the White Mountains, a couple hours away.

The Herald points out a coincidence in this story, some may call it synergy. AOL is working on a series called "Gold Rush." The series will require players to log in to find clues and hopefully uncover the location of buried gold. The finalists will be filmed as they grab their shovels and start digging. AOL's move to uncover the Hawke gold may in fact be unrelated to their upcoming series, but throw AOL and Gold into a google search to find out more on either topic and you're likely to get mixed results.

Flickr user FredFish shows us where the treasure is really buried.