 Wine, Wine, Wine The Nightcaps "You get a nickel, I'll get a dime, we'll go out and buy some wine..." |
Posted on 04/13/2023 3:09:56 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Police are investigating after someone broke into a trailer containing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of dimes in Northeast Philadelphia.
The discovery was made around 6 a.m. Thursday in a Walmart parking lot on the 4300 block of Byberry Road.
Police on the scene say an estimated two million dimes, worth $200,000, were stolen. That's an increase from an earlier estimate of one million dimes
Dimes were found scattered from the Walmart parking lot to Woodhaven Road.
Action News has learned the truck driver picked up the dimes from the Philadelphia Mint on Wednesday but then went home to get some sleep before a long drive to Florida.
"This is common practice - to pick up a load going to Florida and go home for the night, get to sleep, and get on the road in the morning,"
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That’s a schittload of dimes
Slim Pickens musta stolen them to git through that toll booth out west.
Wine, Wine, Wine The Nightcaps "You get a nickel, I'll get a dime, we'll go out and buy some wine..." |
Thanks for the details :-)
(I obviously did not read the article!)
And....great question ❗️
:-)
Figure out what 80,000 pounds worth of truck freight a load of crown royal whiskey or black olives are worth.
not even close
they were p[icked up at the mint to get into circulation.
Joseph William Coyle (February 26, 1953 – August 15, 1993) was an unemployed longshoreman in Philadelphia who, in February 1981, found $1.2 million in the street, after it had fallen out of the back of an armored car, and kept it. His story was made into the 1993 film Money for Nothing, starring John Cusack, as well as a 2002 book by Mark Bowden, Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million.
Coyle passed out some of the money, in $100 bills, to friends and neighbors. He was arrested later in 1981 at JFK Airport while trying to check into a flight to Acapulco; police found $105,000 of the cash in envelopes taped around his ankles. He was tried, but found not guilty of theft by reason of temporary insanity. The armored car company, Purolator Armored Services, eventually recovered around $1 million of the original amount.
Philly Style?
Is it the water?
The terroir?
LOL, good one!
Dang
The Big Guy is thankful that you are not calculating his 10%.
I remember it well. Died at age 40? I had lost track of his story by then. What happened?
“Trailer Park Boys”
Hatched a plan to steal bags of coin from a truck.
Their getaway plan was foiled, cause they forgot to factor in the weight of the coins
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