American becomes gold digger on the streets of New York (2 photos + 2 videos)
Who among us in childhood did not dream of finding a treasure? The very same, real one, marked with a cross on an old tattered map. Years go by, the treasured map never falls into our hands, but there are people who look for treasure themselves, right under the noses of others. 
This story is about a New York treasure hunter named Raffi Stepanian. One day, the guy found a link of a broken gold chain that someone dropped on 47th Street, and it dawned on him. No need to look for treasure somewhere far away, just look under your feet. 
Naturally, you need to look not just anywhere, but where these treasures are usually stored - next to jewelry stores. After this revelation, Rafik literally began crawling on all fours with tweezers and a knife at local jewelry stores, picking at the cracks in the sidewalks.
In an interview with the New York Post, Rafik admitted that you can find more yellow metal on the streets than in some gold-bearing veins.
It turns out that the cracks between the slabs are full of gold and other jewelry scraps - forgotten, lost, carried out of the store on clothes and shoe soles.
The guy didn't make a millionaire out of the finds, but he's not discouraged, he has enough to live on and that's fine. According to him, in one week he can find $800 worth of jewelry scraps.
The idea itself is, of course, interesting, but we still won't play treasure hunters.
