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Tree Planters Joke Of Finding Gold In Ridgewood Yard -- Find Skull Instead Tree Planters Joke Of Finding Gold In Ridgewood Yard -- Find Skull Instead
Tree Planters Joke Of Finding Gold In Ridgewood Yard -- Find Skull Instead Landscaping contractor Alex Kaplan and his crew had just been joking about finding a million dollars or gold bullion while planting trees in a Ridgewood homeowner’s backyard last week when one of the diggers suddenly shouted: “Cabesa!” More precisely: A human skull. “We were on the seventh tree when one of the workers yelled,” the owner of Hillsdale-based Kaplan Landscaping said. “We were talking about a million dollars or gold bullion, and we found a skull instead." They immediately called police to the Spencer Street home. Forensic scientists will need to determine the skull’s age,…

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by Jerry DeMarco