if you're a pirate with a treasure map and you kill a lot of innocent people on your treasure chest quest, you should take a deep breath and contemplate for a minute or two when you find that treasure. when you crack open a treasure chest you better hope that the treasure inside is worth more than the chest. if you use a big mallet and crack open a valuable antique treasure chest worth thousands of dollars and it's just full of nails or old shoes, that's going to be disappointing. on the other hand, you could use the mallet to kill your pirate partner and then put the mallet in his hands to make it look like he was the one who destroyed the antique treasure chest full of old shoes. when the story gets published in the antique quarterly journal they'll say he was the one who busted up the louis IV chest. they'll write that he was so disappointed about the old shoes that he hit himself in the head with the steel mallet. After a few years you might even start to believe that he did it too, especially if you are a psycho. you'll feel a lot better about the whole incident then. i guess that's the moral of this story: whenever you do something really crazy, just look for the silver lining! but don't look for it inside a treasure chest, because that's what started this whole pirate booty mess, and it might bring back some bad memories, and this time there might not be another pirate scapegoat conveniently standing nearby like before.