Touching the vomit of any other creature obviously is one disgusting thing anyone can have themselves do but we can all agree that it wouldn’t be that nauseating if the said vomit is valuable and worth an astounding £65000.
A UK father and his son have landed themselves wealth thus if all things remain equal by leisurely taking a walk at the beach.
Alan Derrick, 67, and Tom, 39 stumbled across a lump of whale vomit and after a test home in Somerset confirmed it could be ambergris – a highly-prize but stinky substance used in the manufacture of perfume.
They have sent samples off to experts in Italy, New Zealand and France in the hope they will back-up their tests.
Speaking on how he made the astonishing find Alan said:
“The weather was not very good on Sunday so I decided not to go fishing and go for a walk instead. My son said ‘I’ll come with you’ and when we were walking he came over to me and said ‘what do you think this is dad? It weighs about 2.5lbs and is very dense and has a very pungent smell”.
“I said ‘if that’s what I think it is then guard it with your life’.
“It smells terrible. It smells like walking into a very old damp building.” Ambergis comes from whales and takes years to form, it’s slimy, slurry texture is thought to protect the animal from hard and sharp objects it eats”.
“It maybe smelly but it is highly prized in the perfume industry and is therefore dubbed ‘floating gold’. Alan has put it up for sale on eBay with a £65000 price tag, until a buyer shows up, his valuable find is sitting safe in a safety box.”
If it proves to be the valuable substance Alan said Tom will take the cash and put it in a trust fund for his two-year-old son Matthew.