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Dozens of Chicagoans grab $300K cash that fell off back of Brinks truck: report
NY Post ^ | 4/27/25 | Shane Galvin

Posted on 04/27/2025 2:29:05 AM PDT by Libloather

They came into some sleazy money.

Bags full of cash fell off a Brinks Home Security Company truck as it drove through a Chicago suburb last week — leaving over $300,000 in cash in the hands of sticky-fingered locals, according to a report.

The moolah hauler’s back door became ajar by “unknown means” as it rolled through the Oak Park neighborhood of the Second City on Tuesday — dropping three cash-filled bags onto Austin Boulevard, according to NBC.

Brinks claims that between 50 and 100 Chicagoans capitalized on the money mishap — making a mad cash-grabbing dash and fleeing the scene, the report stated.

Approximately $300,000 was swiped from those bags, the company claimed, according to the report.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: brinks; cash; chicago; oakpark; truck; unknownmeans

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I'm sure it'll all be returned.
1 posted on 04/27/2025 2:29:05 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Yep.


2 posted on 04/27/2025 2:32:03 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Libloather

“Look! Reparations, right there in the street...”


3 posted on 04/27/2025 2:32:57 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Libloather

It’s like a scene from a movie. Surreal if you were there and saw it.


4 posted on 04/27/2025 2:33:34 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Libloather

In related news, all the scratch off Lotto tickets sold out at the nearby liquor store.


5 posted on 04/27/2025 2:49:10 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Libloather
It jus' fell right off the back Ang...


6 posted on 04/27/2025 2:52:23 AM PDT by Bullish (I've never seen such morons... Have you?)
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To: Libloather

It would have been stolen in a stick up sooner or later in Chicago so this was the safest way for Brinks employees to lose it.


7 posted on 04/27/2025 3:21:59 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Libloather

I fear God more than I love money.


8 posted on 04/27/2025 3:25:32 AM PDT by roving
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To: Eccl 10:2

And sales were up sharply at the likka stow.


9 posted on 04/27/2025 3:36:45 AM PDT by albie (U)
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To: Psalm 73

“Reparations in the Street” sung to the tune of dancing in the street. with real dancing!


10 posted on 04/27/2025 4:19:51 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: Libloather

Sounds like a truck crew that dumped 10,000 off the back. :)


11 posted on 04/27/2025 4:26:15 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Libloather

There’s at least 14 government offices to make up for the $300k loss, no harm no foul.

(Elon Musk: “at least 14 Magical Money Computers”)


12 posted on 04/27/2025 4:28:30 AM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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Not sure why anybody needs to wait for cash to fall off a Brinks Truck, when you can take all you want.


13 posted on 04/27/2025 4:31:28 AM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: Libloather
Oak Park is a municipality bordering Chicago, not a neighborhood. And "The Second City", etc. - sounds like the NY Post used some AI program to generate the story and then gave it a name (Shane Galvin) to cover up.

No wonder those people put ketchup on hotdogs and like to make a little valley with their pizza slices to hold the grease in until they swallow it.

14 posted on 04/27/2025 4:38:31 AM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: roving

So do I.


15 posted on 04/27/2025 5:09:09 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather

Don’t worry. I’ll handle this.

Hey, you people! Put that back!


16 posted on 04/27/2025 5:15:44 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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Reminds me of a man named Joey Coyle

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Coyle


17 posted on 04/27/2025 5:18:30 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Libloather

I’m surprised some Dem Aldermen didn’t rush to the scene and collect their share.


18 posted on 04/27/2025 5:36:20 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: Psalm 73

The racial makeup of the village was 60.18% White, 18.69% African American, 0.05% Native American, 5.39% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.52% from other races, and 5.84% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.31% of the population.

I guess we shouldn’t assume who the perps were, it’s Chicago afterall, they like to vote for Democrats.


19 posted on 04/27/2025 5:49:19 AM PDT by Nekman (The Dems are SocialistCommunistUtopianMarxists...SCUM for short...it FITS!)
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To: lowbridge

That didn’t end well.


20 posted on 04/27/2025 5:50:55 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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