~$100,000 in dimes stolen from truck in Northeast Philadelphia - 6abc Philadelphia
Police are investigating after someone broke into a trailer containing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of dimes in Northeast Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Police are investigating after someone broke into a trailer containing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of dimes in Northeast Philadelphia. The discovery was made around 6 a.m. Thursday in a Walmart parking lot on the 4300 block of Byberry Road. Police on the scene say an estimated one million dimes, worth $100,000, were stolen.
A total of $750,000 worth of dimes were in the truck, police said. Dimes were found scattered from the Walmart parking lot to Woodhaven Road. Action News has learned the truck driver picked up the dimes from the Philadelphia Mint on Wednesday, but then went home to get some sleep before a long drive to Florida. So, the truck driver parked the big rig in the Walmart parking lot.
When he came back Thursday morning he found the trailer door was open. "They were trying to cross-load the dimes into other things. There are dimes all over the parking lot," said Capt. Jack Ryan of Northeast Detectives. It's not known if the thief or thieves knew what was inside. Northeast Detectives say it's not unusual for thieves to break into trailers just to see what they can find.
There are cameras in the parking lot and investigators are working on a suspect description. Sources tell Action News that SWAT officers were called to the scene to help block entrances.
:saul-stare: my landlord watching me pay my rent in a 5 gallon bucket of dimes (my rent payment weighs 85 pounds)
I would say based but how the fuck do they expect to launder $100k in coins lmao
Coinstar. just show up to ur local grocery store with several 55 gallon barrels filled with coins. then karen out on a service worker when they dont have the $100k on hand.
A hundred dollar giftcard a week for the next 20 years aint bad. It's passive income!
You don’t spend the gift cards. What you do is sell them at a discount, preferably to crypto nerds, then get clean money in return
The DSA crakkker kkkaren at the customer service counter said they couldn't honor my coinstar transaction worth $100,000.
It would be so funny and so Philly if the guy gets caught because he tries to Coinstar them.
Maybe they own a furnace and are looking to get into the zinc market
"Hello, Mr. Drug Dealer. May I ask you a question? Do you take dimes?"
I'm assuming this is organized crime and they have a way to launder it, a bunch of penny slots or something.
They meant to get quarters to launder them by reselling Homies figures, but they snagged the wrong truck.
Fuck yeah.
Action News has learned the truck driver picked up the dimes from the Philadelphia Mint on Wednesday, but then went home to get some sleep before a long drive to Florida
Note to self: watch Mints for shipments to follow.
Yeah but be smart about it. Snag yourself some quarters at least.
Comparing volume, you get more dollar value filling something with dimes, assuming they're in parallel stacks and not just loose and filling space in non-optimal ways. Not by a lot, maybe ~1.5% more. A large box or bin with them piled in should be more space efficient, which I think is how they're shipped around.
Well dang - I checked the weight of the coins to see which would be easier to carry more of, and it turns out that quarters weigh EXACTLY 2.5x as much as dimes. Dimes are definitively the superior coin to steal in that case.
This is pretty funny because it could’ve been avoided if the US just had stricter labor laws that allowed for adequate rest instead of the weird eyeball and piss tracker shit they install in trucks.
Just makes me think of that part in Blazing Saddles with the toll gate. "Anybody got a dime?! Somebody's gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes!"
Police are on the lookout for suspects with particularly foul-smelling loincloths.
860 cubic meters felt wrong to me (it's way too much to fit in a box truck), so I calculated the actual volume of all the stolen dimes.
A dime has a diameter of 17.91mm and a height of 1.35mm. The volume of a dime is: pi (17.91/2)^2 1.35 = ~340.11 mm^3.
The robber stole 1 million times so the total volume of dimes would've been: 340.11 * 10^6 mm^3 = ~0.340 m^3 = ~340L.
340L is a few car trunks' worth of volume, so it's still a comical sight seeing people scoop armfuls of dimes into car trunks.
The article first said $750k then they changed it to $100k. And now it's $200k. I wonder what it'll be tomorrow.
Yeah looks like 5000lbs per 100k USD, officially dimes weigh 2.268g and I've got a 0.05g accurate scale that just gave me 22.68g for 10 pretty fresh looking dimes.
Apparently if we can one thing right, it's how much zinc we stamp...
I am surprised it was that easy to steal, I saw coins being prepped for shipment at the Philly mint (largest in the world by the way) years ago and they were piling them in like bulletproof time-locked crates. Like a beefier version of how ballot boxes are often locked during transport. I guess that level of security got abandoned at some point, probably the shipping was contracted out somehow.
Soon graffitti appears all over Philly -
fdrCREW represent.
There are dimes all over the parking lot
I like this new version of "dropping dimes"..
If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Dime after dime
If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting
Dime after dime
If you're lost, you can look and you will find me
Dime after dime
If you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting
Dime after dime
