~$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.
Fuck yeah.
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.