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Hundreds of Thousands of Pennies Spill Across Oklahoma Highway
- Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:10pm by
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Hundreds of thousands of pennies on a Tulsa highway prompted the Oklahoma Highway Patrol to close down the northbound lanes of U.S. Highway 75 from 41st Street South to the 23rd Street exit.
The OHP says a Loomis armored truck lost the pennies when a back door of the truck opened up, spilling boxes of pennies onto the roadway where Highway 75 and I-244 merge.
Troopers say as the truck rounded a curve boxes of pennies shifted, causing the door to open and the pennies to fall out. At first troopers said about a dozen boxes fell out but later increased the estimate to 40. Each box holds $25 of pennies so that adds up to about $1,000.
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Comments (78)
Joyzee
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 5:01pmSounds planned spilling these*
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:48pmPfft….the only good thing the US one cent coin can be used for these days, is taking a bunch, putting them into a sock, and smacking the cr@p out of someone you don’t like.
Report Post »randy
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:59pmThey should have just given some of the OWs protestors a stick with a magnet on the end to pick those copper pennies up. :)
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:08pm@RANDY……lol….shame on you, for suggesting that someone use the OWS peoples lack of scientific knowledge against them….:D
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:22pmI guess it was good that it was the one cent coins that fell on the highway, because imagine the disaster, if it had been another coin, such as dimes…..Can you just imagine what would happen if pot heads heard that “dime bags” had broken open and spilled their contents all over the roadway?…..the entire highway would have been shut down and clogged with people looking to score a free buzz.
Report Post »IMAWAKENOW
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:23amHow on earth do you forget to shut the back of an armored car? This is far from the first time I have heard of money falling out of an armored car during my life. It has happened at least three times within 100 miles of my house.
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges12
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 4:32amrandy – “They should have just given some of the OWs protestors a stick with a magnet on the end to pick those copper pennies up. :)”
America’s “money” is as magnetic-less as it is worthless. (Yes, I know. You can still buy things with it. Don’t fret, it’ll all catch up soon … )
In the case of “the penny”, from 1909 to 1982, metal composition was mostly copper (with the exception of the 1943 steel cent fabricated during WWII). However, from 1982 to date, metal composition is copper-plated zinc.
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:10amLOL to randy and tx great comments thanks:)
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:12amQuick, call “Vince” we need a boatload of
SCHTICKIES ! ! !
LOL Couldn’t resist
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 3:51pmIt will soon be illegal to have penneys…or for that matter any US currency. When you see the gas and food prices go through the roof dont blame the Arabs or the farmers. What’s really happening is the value of the dollar is decreasing. The value of the fuel, food and other items is still the same as it was decades ago.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 7:34pmIt’s almost as worthless as our politicians. Now, THAT”S a depression.
Report Post »Common.Cents
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 3:31pmI thought it said hundreds of thousands of cigarette butts.
Report Post »Weiners Wiener
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 4:55pmThose aren’t butts — they’re the paper rolls the pennies were packaged in.
Report Post »Lotus503
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:10pmMakes cents to me…sorry…I’m a sucker for a bad pun…
Judge Andrew Napolitano for U. S. Attorney General!!!
Report Post »Grasshopper42
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 3:26pmThe ‘penny’ is an English denomination. In America we have the ‘cent’. But who cares about details in this country anymore anyway?
Report Post »BigDaddyTex
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 5:40pmTrue! No such thing as a Lincoln “penny”. I‘m glad I’m not the only one who’s a stickler for that!
Report Post »Too bad it cost more to clean them up than they’re worth….. :-(
american1st
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 7:04pmunless you melt them down and sell them as copper, then they are worth $0.025 approximately….
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:03amSo someone is going to walk into a bank with a coffee can full of pennies and say “I want to make cash out of my cents”? The bank teller would say “what the hell, are you from Mexico or something?”
Report Post »Tide_Rider_2
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:57pmPolarized America
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:09pm
Stop making pennies, it cost 2.4 cents to make one. but try to get 2.4 cents for one …lol
If one of the pennies (They are actually cents) was a uncirculated 1909-S VDB, it would be worth thousands of dollars. I would have taken a wagon and collected many of them if they would have allowed me to do it. There could have been several wheat cents in the mix.
Report Post »KyleD
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:38pmA $1000 isn’t hundreds of thousands of pennies…it’s just one hundred thousand.
Report Post »Mr. H.
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 3:17pmThat still sounds like it’s time for a gas powered lawn vacuum. Probably more than one, as pennies get heavy quick.
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:36pmthey’re worthless.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 3:37pmLiterally spreading the wealth !
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:27pmIn heaven there are streets of gold. . here: pennies. lol
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:32pmThe least shall be the greatest
Report Post »mrunner
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:26pmI was walking with a well off company president one time and he saw a penny on the ground and stopped to pick it up. I asked him “why, with all the money you have?” He told me it wasn’t the money, it was the reminder and asked me to read the coin- “In God We Trust”. I have picked up pennies ever since that day, but this here situation??? That is a WHOLE nother matter!!
Report Post »stumpy68
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:06pmI leave pennies in stores and parking lots
Report Post »and other places because i remember the joy of finding a penny
when i was young of course i could by a piece of gum with it back then lol
jackbauer2012
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:13pmI think it would have been cheaper to leave them there and put a flyer out to the homeless of the free penny pickup at 1am. Keep what you gather
Report Post »felix
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:33pmor gang bangers – no orange cones allowed !
Report Post »aragona
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:40pmThat would have required them to do a little bit of work. I doubt that many would have shown up.
Report Post »Bottomgun
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 6:03pmShould have enlisted the math majors at a local school to pick them up and record how many were heads and tails for a large random scale survey.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 7:41pmSi. Uno, Dose, Tres……
Report Post »christos
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:13pm…SYMBOLIC—U.S. is down to pennies and now they’ve thrown them on the road to,,,Spiritually Broke,,,instead of embracing +JESUS+GOD+ they have Rejected +JESUS+GOD+ turn around,,,
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:09pmStop making pennies, it cost 2.4 cents to make one. but try to get 2.4 cents for one …lol
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 3:22pmWhere did you hear that? Not true. 1.26¢ to produce a penny since 2007.
But what is true is that the pre-1993 pennies (made entirely of copper, except wartime 1943 pennies made of steel and copper plating) are now worth 2.4¢ on copper content only. The newer pennies are “fakes”, a sandwich of a zinc substrate and thin copper coating.
Report Post »Twisted Mind
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 7:40pmThey quit making copper pennys in 1982.
Report Post »NORTHBRO
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:06pm25 bucks a box, its probably worth more at a metal recycler as copper.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:15pmvery little copper in a penny anymore. they are mostly zinc.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:18pmcopperhead road
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:03pmLike others noted, I ‘d just keep driving unless they were 20’s or 50s in Obamaland. It’s not worth letting the car idle otherwise. ;)
Report Post »andredegas
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:00pmEverytime it rains it rains…pennies from Heaven………
Report Post »speeddiva
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:03pmgood one
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:13pmwhat hurts the most…is God rubbing salt in my wounds everyday… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PQGbf6_1fg&feature=related
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:56pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-oLhJQne0
Report Post »fammus1
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:46pmIt would take half a day picking up penneys to fill my tank…..drop quarters!
Report Post »db321
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:54pmIt am Obama Job – cost $20,000 to pick up $1000.
Report Post »fammus1
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 3:04pmThat’s cheap in Obama dallars!
Report Post »Marengo Ohio Patriot
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:44pmmake the truck guards account for every penny and hand roll them back up. next time i bet they make sure the truck is SECURE!
Report Post »quickstudy
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:37pmThose people picking them up are REALLY REALLY LUCKY!
Report Post »Rocketeer
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:34pmAll it takes to open an armored truck door is for a box of pennies to shift and push open the door? How secure are armored trucks?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 7:45pmWas it an Armored Prius?
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:33pmWhat?… This was a really secure truck for transporting money. You would think that the door would be bolted like a safe.
Report Post »tajloc
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:09pmwhy should pennies need to be secure? I leave them wherever I go. They are worthless. They aren’t worth the metal anymore (not Cu). Have you ever had a huge 5 gallon jug full and tried to move it. I just skip them and now in this small town folks give them to me without me saying anything. Even my bank does this (I don’t know or care how they keep their till straight). But Rom 8:28
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:30pmThat was an act of the God of Abraham…the words Liberty and In God WE TRUST all over the place
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:29pmpennies make excellent shotgun ammo… the .410 comes to mind.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:40pmI used to check a “12 gauge barrel” with a “dime”.
Report Post »If it didn’t fit .(.Don’t shoot a slug…! )
Razorhunters
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:57pmi prefer the 10ga …10$ in quarters.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:16pmCheaper than asphalt, sadly.
Report Post »Jackie Rogers, Jr.
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:15pmPennies? I thought it said penises
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:59pmI thought they lost their panties..
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:15pmIf it was me, I’d leave the damn things thre.
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