Namini Wijedasa
I have missed my vocation in life. I should have been a treasure hunter.I fault my parents for this. They never told me it would be so easy, or so painlessly lucrative. All you need is a good archaeological site (and we’ve plenty of those), some basic implements – and a backhoe. These are large, heavy and conspicuous but easily available. As an added advantage, the police don’t see them. Everyone else does, just not the police.
It used to be difficult to get a backhoe in this country because there were so few of them. But they were recently imported in their dozens for vital rehabilitation activity such as road building. Some countries also donated big batches of backhoes to Sri Lanka. And of what use is road building if it doesn’t involve a little treasure hunting on the side, eh?
