[Freedom4US]

Psst: Someone tell the Editor - Every 2000 pounds = 1 Ton

[MtnClimber]

These people went to journalism school. They could not do the math if someone gave them the formula,

[sparklite2]

Yeah, but a million pounds sounds
more impressive than five hundred tons.

[headstamp 2]

160 million ounces of boulders

[redshawk]

I think the description, “it’s as big a a house”, works better than millions of pounds. Folks can relate to a house size.

[BwanaNdege]

“Psst: Someone tell the Editor - Every 2000 pounds = 1 Ton”

Yeah, but “10 million pounds” helps fill the writer’s “Hype Quota for the Week”!

I’m surprised they didn’t list ounces.

Most folks dealing with moving rock & dirt would have said “yards” (cubic yards, about 2 tons)