Arizona man builds pyramid from 1,030,315 pennies

upi ^ | June 21, 2019 / 10:49 AM | Ben Hooper

[BenLurkin]

Nielsen said the pyramid took him exactly three years to assemble and weighs 6,360 pounds. He said the pyramid is composed of 93,665 small stacks of 11 pennies. The base of the structure is 65 stacks long and 65 stacks wide.

"The way I built it, I take 11 pennies; I made a little stack, and I just place them on the ground; there is no glue, no adhesives or anything like that, and you just kind of free stack them on top of each other, and I go up consistently," Nielsen told The Arizona Republic.

He said the world record attempt was inspired when a coworker asked if his previous penny pyramid, made from about 47,000 coins, was a world record.

[Chickensoup]

terrifically creative.

People used to do things like that all the time, instead of gawping on computers.

[BenLurkin]

I think it looks cool. Hard to believe he didn’t use glue. It could be in an art museum.

[Larry Lucido]

I had that many pennies. The bank wouldn’t take them unless I rolled them.

I can’t figure out why they were so mad when the ball of pennies crashed through their front door.

[sport]

Some people have no sense of humor, Larry.

[Larry Lucido]

Exactly!

[SaveFerris]

I can only offer music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g684wkErOpc

[piasa]

beaTs the crucifix in a urine bottle art. Give him an NEA grant.

[Yossarian]

If this guy is obsessive-compulsive, so am I: I ran the math and dimensions on his pyramid. (It checks out.)

Over 20 cubic feet of pennies, 5,678.64 pounds. Maybe a car company can use this to show off pickup truck carrying capacity?

[metmom]

What precision!

That alone is impressive.

[Ezekiel]

... and then he realized that he’d dropped his keys somewhere.

[Big Red Badger]

The “Hidden Chambers”
Must Really be Cool.
.
But get a Dog.

[BenLurkin]

Ah, now that’s going to be stuck in my head all day!

[Big Red Badger]

Is This accomplishment
The the High point of
His Life?

Good job,Buddy.

[SaveFerris]

I’ll try to alleviate with some Paul Revere and the Raiders (still with Mark Lindsey of course)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REj9ctsLRKc

[SMGFan]

be has a lot of common cents. /s

[SaveFerris]

[5,678.64 pounds.]

Would have been really cool if it had worked out to

5,678.90 pounds.

(a bit OCD to sometimes, LOL)

[Bullish]

I knew pennys had to be good for something.

[Track9]

This is what I envision government bureaucrats doing after coffee and donuts

[subterfuge]

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