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** Subverted in ''The Last Lord of Eldorado''. After having found a pile of coins on a treasure cruise, Scrooge tries to dive into it. Instead he cracks his head because the coins were fused together after spending hundreds of years on the bottom of the sea.

** Deconstructed in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KRQSpORW0 this parody video], where Scrooge accidentally breaks all of his bones after jumping into his pool of money, resulting in him being immediately rushed to the hospital where he then dies. A funeral is held for him, where he is buried with all of his money, and as a result his grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie go crazy over their granduncle's death and end up in prison, their uncle (and Scrooge's nephew) [[Donald Duck]] becoming very angry with them and refuses to pay their "duck bail", before finally going bankrupt and committing suicide.

Family falls apart, now there's no more [[DuckTales]]! (Boo-hoo!) }}

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "Queen of the Black Coast", Belit does this.

* The Western Paladin in the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' card [http://www.cardkingdom.com/catalog/item/49139 Greed] does this.

* Like Smaug (see below), this is considered standard behavior for dragons in [[Dungeons and Dragons]]. One book devoted to them, the ''Draconomicon'', points out how improbable this is considering the volume of the coins and the size of most dragons (even taking into consideration that they are typically 3x as rich as monsters of the same power level). The book even mentions that some dragons will convert their treasure into smaller denominations just to make wallowing in their wealth more practical.

** And the simulation of Thomas Edison's heirs, after the discovery of his six-legged chair.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5aU1dmg5IE&feature=related Deconstructed] in ''[[Family Guy]]''. Peter jumps into one of these after hitting the lottery and winds up bloody with bones sticking out. Turns out gold is quite dense, so even though it's malleable, you don't want to jump into a pile of it.