“Right away I looked at it and I saw .999 silver, so I knew this is not normal,” he told the Kingston Whig Standard. “That thing weighed about five or six pounds. It was quite heavy.” Here’s what happened next—and where the silver bar ended up. 1 Driving Into Town
Sondy was driving east of Canadian Forces Base Kingston when he hit an object in the road. “I knew right away that the tire was blown,” he said. “I pulled over to the side and, you know, I saw it. OK, I need to get that fixed. And then afterwards I went, just out of curiosity, to look and see what I hit, right, to maybe get it off the road.” 2 Lucky Break?
Sondy was taken aback when he realized the object he hit was a bar of solid silver. “I couldn’t believe it did that to my tire,” Sondy said. “I must have hit it at a weird angle. Right away I looked at it and I saw .999 silver, so I knew this is not normal. That thing weighed about five or six pounds. It was quite heavy.” 3 Mystery Silver
As silver is selling for more than $26 per ounce, Sondy’s find was worth more than $2,600. He turned the bar into the police, who were confused as to its origins. “It is kind of odd. I’ve never seen one like that before,” Kingston Police Const. Anthony Colangeli said. “It is marked Royal Canadian Mint silver bar. It’s got a serial number on it, so our property room has it.” 4 Launching Investigation
Colangeli says an investigation will be launched to find the owner of the silver bar. “We’re going to contact our detectives to see if there are any open investigations pertaining to it,” he says. “From there, we’ll probably, if there’s nothing, we’ll maybe contact the mint, give them the number that is stamped on the bar to see where it may have come from and just kind of do some investigation, some leg work, to try to figure out where it came from or who may have lost it.” RELATED: Squatters Take Over a Colorado Home. Now the Owner is in a Homeless Shelter. 5 Who Gets the Bar? ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb

So what happens if the rightful owners of the silver bar can’t be found? Unfortunately for Sondy, he won’t be able to keep his find. According to Colangeli, the department’s policy is that lost items are not kept by the people who bring them in. Instead, the silver bar will most probably be put up for auction. Let’s hope they at least cover his tire repair!