AOLWHITEHALL, MT- Striking gold is everyone’s dream. Drinking it? Not so much.
Gleaming water is never a good sign. Mark Brown told NBC Montana that his wife, Sharon, was finishing the dishes when she noticed something unusual. She called her husband, and he couldn’t believe what he was seeing: gold flakes in his tap water, and even in the family’s toilet tank. “She had pulled the plug to let the water out and there were glistening, gleaming little flecks.”
Multiple tests confirmed that, yup, gold was coming out of the Brown family’s tap.
“Everything I tried to do to dispel this, I got nothing,’ he said. ‘And I can’t explain it either. This is bizarre.”
Brown’s neighbor is also seeing gold in his tap water, and while finding one of the most precious metals on earth might seem exciting, it’s actually raising serious questions about the town’s water supply.
A public works director from Whitehall, Montana, says there is nothing to indicate any harm in the water, but Brown’s not convinced.
“If we’re getting heavy metals that you can see with the naked eye, what else might be in there?” he said.
Here’s the NBC Montana report, with video (couldn’t post it due to copyright):
http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/whitehall-residents-gold-in-drinking-water/26334156
Well that’ll explain the little constipation problem.
Why the hell would you tell others?
Id stay home from work and watch my water bill pay for itself.
Aren’t you just tired of really stupid people. Lets see, hmmmm…SET UP A SLEUCE CATCH SYSTEM IMEDIATELY!!! Run the tap water non-stop and catch every last little “fleck” of gold. Last dump does into a stacked throw away coffee filter system. SAVE the filters, one after another, burn filter, save GOLD in ash catch. Duh!!!! Hard currency is hard currency. By the way, pure gold in ionic form is priceles and of the same medical value as SILVER but if you had to buy it you would go OUCH.
Oh yeah — if it were my house I’d probably be tunneling under the basement.
I know Nottoobitter………why would a person…
gold is so inert chemically, in our bodies it won’t do a thing in those flake amounts but go right on through…………i bet the city is figuring out a way to filter it all out and keep the proceeds…….for themselves……..dummies, anyway…
goldschlager on tap.
All that glitters is not gold……… good song and a good thing to think about.
gold is so heavy it would not make it out of the holding tanks for the water system, however the centrifugal pumps which bring mains pressure are made of brass, me thinks a pump station is going down due to bad bearing in the pump housing. i bet those flakes are brass.
Bragging or complaining?