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Thieves Steal Wal-Mart Trailer Containing $750,000 in DIMES
Zebra 2.0
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Probably won't see this on any reliable news agencies. Thieves steal Walmart trailer in Philadelphia, PA containing $750,000 in US Dimes. Imagine that?
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The driver parked the trailer at Walmart overnight. Someone broke into it and stole about 100,000 worth of dimes.
I'm sure it was an inside job, unmarked trailer.
What idiot would leave a trailer with $750,000 worth of dimes in it overnight at Walmart in Philly? IMHO, driver was in on the theft.
Hey buddy, can you spare a dime?
Thats my Humphrey Bogart impression.
It's a good thing the mint was shipping dimes instead of dollars......could Walmart be trucking money from the mint to export to China for Biden since they've both got good relations with China ??
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
We live twenty mile on the other side of the bridge, from that sewer. Nothing that ever happens over there, surprises me.
I would think it would be easy to find out
When iwas about 18 or so l knew a lot of well not so honest people
Two of the guys I think they were 16 yrs oldtjey broke into a pool hall and into the pool tables had 300.00 or so in quarters
A few days later one of them tried to change in a hundred plus dollars in quartes for cash
Well it was not rocket science to figure where they got all the quarter
As for the dimes 100k in dimes thats a lot of weight and coins
For their sakd I hope they have great buddy In a coin op busness to filter them back in
I can see it now. I like to buy that new Cadillac and pay in cash
by the way you. Don't mind its all in dimes do you
I bet the driver was in on it. That was portrayed in Goodfellas, driver goes in to the diner for a cup of coffee, leaves the keys in the ignition, he comes out in ten minutes and he is "shocked, shocked" to see that his truck has been stolen.
I hauled several thousand different loads while I was driving the big rig. One load would be 43,000 pounds of Michelin tires. The next load would be 44,000 pounds of wet, nasty recycled cardboard. The only way for an outsider to know, would be to break in.
One time I was dispatched to Kentucky, and I hauled 43,500 pounds of Jim Beam to the distributor in Albuquerque. That made me nervous. If the Bad Guys knew what was in that trailer I never would have made it. Somewhere, at a rest area out in the countryside on I-40, something bad would have happened.
One fifth weighs 3 pounds and is worth $20. Do the math. No serial number on a bottle of Kentucky bourbon.
$290,000 ?
I would have robbed ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!😁
Think how long it will take that guy to find that one silver dime he hopes to find. 😝
Not sure but I don't think they ever recovered that truck load of gold bullion that was high-jacked on I-95 in South Carolina a few years back. Anyone here know what the results were on that ?
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
I have often wondered just where all the dimes came from that were sent out in envelopes from March of Dimes. I'd get at least one a year and sometimes a couple more. Also knew that I was not the only one to get them!
Seems the thieves will have a very hard time laundering such a stash!
Donation to a famous charity? Or maybe plug a few parking meters, if of course you can find one that accepts dimes. Otherwise I'm thinking this won't work out well.
That's a lot of dimes, and weight.
That's a lot of hot women!
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
There ya go.
Merc
All that money and it is practically worthless. It's not like they can walk into a bank and deposit it. They could try those coin exchange stations a few hundred bucks at a time but I'm sure they have cameras. How would someone change em into spendable money?
Not even any melt value there. 😁 Thieves must be crack heads.
Here is an interesting case from Georgia from several years ago. As I was suggesting with my big load of bourbon, the thieves follow the 18 wheeler from the gates of the factory. The driver stops at a rest area to take a break, and when he comes back from the bathroom his truck is gone. $400 grand per truck load of copper, looks like copper is more valuable than bourbon.
Two men sentenced for thefts targeting Southwire Copper Company in Carrollton, Georgia
Thursday, November 16, 2017
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For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia
ROME, Ga. - Yosvani Castillo and Rodolfo Arteaga Oliva have been sentenced after pleading guilty to hijacking three truckloads of valuable copper wire and other copper products. The Southwire Copper Company, based in Carrollton, Georgia, was one of the pair's primary targets.
On several occasions, defendants Castillo and Oliva drove up from Miami to Carrollton, and conducted surveillance on tractor-trailers as they left the Southwire facility to deliver copper products to customers across the country.
The defendants followed the unsuspecting truck until the driver pulled over for a stop, often after hundreds of miles of driving. They would then steal the entire truck and trailer, sometimes transferring the copper into a different trailer they brought with them to avoid detection, and drove the load back to Miami where Castillo arranged to sell the copper for below-market value to a metal recycler.
After stealing the trucks, they removed Global Positioning System (“GPS”) trackers from the trucks and installed “jammers,” which are illegal signal-blocking devices that prevent any tracking of GPS devices or cellular phones. The victims sustained over $1.3 million in losses.
Brandon was sending them dimes to Egypt so the Egyptians could give them to Putin.
Brandon is always trying to buy some ones love. (with our tax dollars)
My Dad worked at a paper recycling plant and they got rail cars of March of Dimes folders after they were sent out. The junker that separated the metal in the waste was a favorite spot at that time, as sometimes it was full of dimes.
We arrested a truck thief years ago. He felt it was just his job & we were doing ours. He was decent to deal with and actually sociable. He told us just enough about other thefts that we knew that he was the real deal. The people he worked for would help his wife out while he was in prison, again. When released, he would have to steal more to pay them back. I of course don't condone any of this, but at least the truck thieves in our area never hurt a driver. Funniest was that he was sent to steal a trailer load of computer equipment. Instead of a big payday, he got a load of wicker furniture they wouldn't pay him for.
Someone needs to call the cops you know drop in dime on them.
Well I hope they didn't do it on my dime.
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
If he was cremated, it probably took a couple of days to put out the fire.
What happened to the "coin shortage" the country has been having for the past 6 years?