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Old 09-18-2008, 12:41 PM   #1
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Big rig spills $187k in nickels on highway
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"Save your pennies" is a common refrain for anyone looking to purchase anything, but after this truck incident on Interstate 95 in Florida, it may be "swipe them nickels." Drivers may be parking on the shoulder and breaking out the metal detector after a couple of tractor trailers were involved in a crash that claimed one life and caused one of the rigs to disgorge its cargo of nickels all over the the macadam. The coinage, strewn like so much snow across the roadway, is worth about $187,000, but we doubt too much of that total will be left lying in the grass.
Wow, man...... if I was rolling by, I'll stop and get the shovel
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Old 09-18-2008, 12:47 PM   #2
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i would have gone home immediatly and got my vacuum. talk about making some bank
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Old 09-18-2008, 01:12 PM   #3
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I remember a truck crashed here in knoxville several years ago carrying bottle caps. It was a mess. Of course they may get some help picking up those nickels...
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reminds me of this

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Old 09-18-2008, 01:46 PM   #5
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reminds me of this

WHAT A TRAGEDY!

i wonder if anyone could get locked up for "stealing" nickels off of that road?? haha
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Old 09-18-2008, 02:10 PM   #6
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So much for that bier...
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Old 09-18-2008, 10:34 PM   #7
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Hey some of them are still intact! I'd go for it.
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Old 09-19-2008, 01:03 AM   #8
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Hey some of them are still intact! I'd go for it.
now your thinkin, lol.

HOLY CRAP. 37,400 nickels
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reminds me of this

That's a party foul. Start chugging.
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Old 09-19-2008, 08:40 AM   #10
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reminds me of this

lol look at how drenched the road is just from buuuur
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HOLY CRAP. 37,400 nickels
Try HOLY CRAP, 3.74million nickels!!
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