Thieves stole $100,000 in dimes off a truck in a Walmart parking lot

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Paging Joey Coyle!

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Cops need to put surveillance on every Coinstar machine in the area !

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I wonder how long it would take to put all those dimes through a coinstar. Plus you’d have to go to a lot of them, I can see the machine filling up pretty quickly

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Depending on the vintage (mintage?) of the dimes there could have been just a few of them.

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Considering they just came from the Philadelphia Mint, I would guess they were “freshly minted” and not co-mingled with the existing circulating dimes.

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Check the hospitals for hernia-related emergencies.

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Seems odd that if a truck is loaded with $750,000 in cash it would be left unguarded while the driver toddled home to sleep.

Edited to say, I used the word “odd” when I really meant “stupid.”

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Northeast Detectives say it’s not unusual for thieves to break into trailers just to see what they can find.

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Yep, just did the math. 1 dime = 2.268 grams, according to the US Mint. $100k = 1 M dimes = 2.2680 metric tonnes. I checked an online unit converter and got:

  • 260.69 adult badgers
  • 1.512 skateboarding rhinoceri
  • and if you must have Imperial units: 357.156 stone, which is 80 028 oz.

It’s a lot of dimes.

Edit: math is hard.

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Ooh, there’s gotta be a couple of pre-1965 silver dimes in there. Maybe even some Mercury dimes!

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$100,000 = 1,000,000 dimes (ten dimes per dollar). So 2.268 metric tonnes

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Thanks! Got carried away with decimal places.

So only 260.69 adult badgers

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I distrust your maths.

Not least because I don’t think even an imperial adult badger would weigh 8.7 metric tonnes.

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Lol. Invisible decimal point. It was wrong anyway, but should have read 22 POINT 680 tonnes. :slight_smile:

But as @anon87143080 pointed out, it’s 2.268 T, or 260.69 badgers (adult).

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I mean, 11.9% is a better rate than most money launderers will charge you. :man_shrugging:

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What? An African or European badger?

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I feel like that would be really, really hard to spend. Like, seriously, if you had $1000 in dimes, how would you spend or deposit it and not draw attention to yourself, unless you had some other business that dealt in a lot coins. And even then, usually that’s quarters.

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