Police: Estimated 2 million dimes stolen from truck in Northeast Philadelphia

6ABC ^ | 13 April 2023

[digger48]

That’s a schittload of dimes

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Slim Pickens musta stolen them to git through that toll booth out west.

[Songcraft]

Wine, Wine, Wine
The Nightcaps

"You get a nickel,
I'll get a dime,
we'll go out and
buy some wine..."

[Jane Long]

Thanks for the details :-)

(I obviously did not read the article!)

And....great question ❗️

[Jane Long]

:-)

[Equine1952]

Figure out what 80,000 pounds worth of truck freight a load of crown royal whiskey or black olives are worth.

[algore]

"Dimes offer the highest dollar value by volume than any other coin."

not even close

[Songcraft]

Just a side note --- the Byberry Road mentioned in the article is near where the now-gone "Byberry Nut Hospital" used to be located, where all the democrats lived until they were all turned loose to live and poop on the streets, and to vote for fellow democrats.  (This is just a picture I found of it -- not trying to promote that link.)


     

[dirtymac]

they were p[icked up at the mint to get into circulation.

[fella]

Bobby Bare

[crusty old prospector]

[DoodleBob]

It's a Philly thing. Somewhat related...

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.

[Paladin2]

Philly Style?

Is it the water?

The terroir?

[Yo-Yo]

Of course that's what I was going to post. No fair taking the low-hanging fruit just because you're the original poster!

[jocon307]

LOL, good one!

[Zathras]

Dang

[Laslo Fripp]

The Big Guy is thankful that you are not calculating his 10%.

[Albion Wilde]

I remember it well. Died at age 40? I had lost track of his story by then. What happened?

[Songcraft]

I don't know, but if you breathe in deeply there, you will definitely notice that certain something in the air...

[Steven Tyler]

“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