"Anybody got a dime?"
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,"
(Excerpt) Read more at 6abc.com ...
"Anybody got a dime?"
Someone might drop a dime on them for the reward.
LOL.... 🙃
Do you have these on the ready, on a server? You’re FAST w/the movie gifs and images!
The bigger question.....what was someone doing with 2 million dimes?
Trying to take them out of circulation?
🤔
If there is a dime slot machine in some casino, the mob will launder the money.
What do you do with five tons of dimes?
“All U.S. dimes minted since 1965 weigh 2.268 grams (0.080 ounces). U.S. dimes have a diameter of 17.91 mm, a thickness of 1.35 mm, and are composed of a metallic “clad sandwich” of copper (91.67%) and nickel (8.33%).”
https://sdbullion.com/blog/how-much-do-dimes-weigh
Being delivered to banks?
That’s a lot of “dime bags” even for Philadelphia
This has inside job written all over it. Beginning with the driver, and then his buddies....which would then point right back to him.
It’s hard to believe that the usual practices to pick up all that cash, drive home and get some sleep, then hit the road.
And then is the driver supposed to drive all alone to Florida from Philadelphia? With $200,000 worth of money in his truck?
It’s hard to believe that there are not greater controls on handling of money like this. We can all laugh about how these are dimes, but it adds up to a considerable sum of money.
There’s not a dime’s bit of difference between this and a real bank robbery.
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
Philadelphia Mint makes the new dimes.
Theft of government property ✔️
Interstate shipment ✔️
Local police, not FBI or Treasury Department investigating ⁉️
LOL!
“A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
— Yogi Berra
I remember this put-down... “Here’s a dime. Call someone who cares.”
Now you can call 2 million people who care.
According to the interweb, a US dime is 0.08 oz.
2 million dimes = 10,000 lbs of dimes
Taking them on a March?
Dimes offer the highest dollar value by volume than any other coin.
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