195 years ago: 'we should put a lead-lined box in here with nothing in it to fuck with people in the future'
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Some guy wanted to put something valuable in it and was unwittingly robbed. Simplest explanation.
At least they had the right idea about who deserved far worse than this prank even in 1828 (the year the infamous Andrew Jackson would be elected)
To be honest, nothing is about the best you can get in a time capsule from the 19th-century United States. I was fearing it would be a Sioux skull or the flayed and stripped skin of a disobedient slave, or perhaps some kind of forgotten zoonotic disease. It was not a nice time
forgotten zoonotic disease
WTF, you doomed us all! They played a prank on the military by concocting a biological weapon!
Hey, Geraldo found nothing; at least this guy got a puddle of mud.
If anything was placed in the box when it was buried in 1828 in the base of a Thaddeus Kosciuszko monument, no part of it was recognizable when the lid was pried off during the unveiling Monday. Kosciuszko was a Polish-born military engineer who fought in the Revolutionary War and engineered fortifications at West Point in the late 18th century.
This sounds like peak trolling by very disappointed someone of polish descent, since the Kościuszko Insurrection could be easily viewed (especially in 1828 USA) as this vault, the only thing left from it is peasant fetish of large part of polish inteligentsia.