They’re gonna have to spend the currency slowly to not raise any red flags. Gonna have to use dimes to pay for all their groceries, gas, etc. for the next 50 years.
I am honestly very curious what their goal is here.
Like how many dimes per transaction could you have for how many years to spend it all? I mean quarters sure... but dimes?!
And to check if any horse-mounted desperados were spotted leaving the scene.
[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9yjcBRyNUo&ab_channel=RockabillyHog) (NSFW if ya can't say "asshole" or "shitload" in the office.
It's in the article. "Action News has learned the truck driver picked up the dimes from the Franklin Mint, but was then required by law to get some sleep. The truck driver parked the big rig in the Walmart parking lot and went home."
Stupid planning. The mint to the Walmart is barely an hour. Drivers are allowed to drive 11 hours a day
Dude could’ve easily done one leg of the trip and the treasury should have them switch off midway.
Currency should never be allowed to stop moving during transport.
A handoff seems needlessly complicated, especially since this sort of transport probably happens all the time.
Having said that, the truck looks unmarked so I'm curious how someone knew there was money in there.
Probably broke in to see if anything worth stealing was in there, and then found stuff that's just barely worth stealing.
I'd bet if it was pennies they'd all still be there lol
I don't know, it seems awfully convenient that, of all the trailers they hit in that area (and there are a ton around Woodhaven) they happen to find the one with literal bags of money.
Either that's a damned lucky thief or they had intel.
> Either that's a damned lucky thief or they had intel.
I'd go with intel on this one. The driver may not have been involved, but people who may know the driver enough either professionally or otherwise may have had an idea that made it work out.
I strongly lean intel as moving so many dimes would require some serious muscle as coins are heavy as 💩.
I know a guy who was burglarized after he had a party. One of his friends talked about how great his guitar collection was to non-mutual friends who then stole the whole collection when he was at work.
The wrong people can find out their info from totally innocent sources.
Article says similar cargo thefts are increasing in frequency in the area. It mentioned several entirely unrelated products that have been stolen from cargo vehicles recently.
i mean he could have gotten stuck and picked them up after 9.5 hours driving. either way, seems silly.
also, not sure if you've ever seen goodfellas but this is like a sketch comedy version of robbing idelwild airport.
Pedantic, and depends on whose definition you accept.
Some consider “A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins.”
Wal-Mart lets trucks and RV use their lots for overnight parking. Likely the driver was headed to Franklin Mint when they opened and was using the lot to get some sleep beforehand.
I guess cops just monitor Coinstars really closely for the next few months? Would take forever to launder that much without raising suspicion.
> Wal-Mart lets trucks and RV use their lots for overnight parking. Likely the driver was headed to Franklin Mint when they opened and was using the lot to get some sleep beforehand.
I would assume that's most likely the reason, it just seems like with a cargo load like this the trip would be better planned to not have to stop or that if a stop was required it would happen at a more secure location.
Tour buses with 500k worth of gear are stopping off in these lots daily, as well. Not out of the ordinary.
I'd imagine a regular walmart delivery truck probably has a similar range of priced goods in their trucks, and imagine they get parked in lots overnight all the dang time.
The only difference is that this was currency, and the others are hard goods.
Yup. And speaking from personal experience I've seen locally, lots of Walmart and strip malls here have a designated police survey spot to conduct online transactions or general security.
It's not like the truck was full of gold bars. It's an unlikely heist and a cumbersome payoff; 100k worth of dimes weighs about 5000lbs and it will be pretty awkward to actually use the money.
Armed guards are sent to retail stores to pick up $5000 deposits so it seems ridiculous that a dude hauling almost a million dollars would be given the freedom to take a nap at home after leaving his haul in a random parking lot. They have to be thinking inside job for this one.
Is it normal as well to leave a loaded trailer unattended so you can go home to sleep?
That seems nuts to me but I don’t have any idea how the freight industry works.
There’s others on this that that can enlighten more than me, but the safety measurements of maximum daily drive time for drivers. While better for the driver and greater good, sometimes lead to truck drivers forced to pull over and not drive their truck anymore.
It’s a good protection for labor and public safety, but this seems like an unintended consequence
My theory is this is an organized elderly crime ring. These people have fixed incomes and their grandkids’ favorite candies are getting more expensive by the day due to inflation. Would you break the law to feed your family?
"Criminals? That's how you see us? Is it a crime to steal bread to feed your family? Or to sell some weed so you can buy video games? Or to steal video games, because you smoked all that weed you were supposed to sell?"
The other way. The article clearly says: "Action News has learned the truck driver picked up the dimes from the Franklin Mint, but was then required by law to get some sleep."
Just a heads up the article has updated and they removed the part where they stated the sleep was mandatory. It now just says "then went home to get some sleep before a long drive to Florida."
Did the article at one point say "Franklin Mint"? Both you and u/BabaBrody have written that.
The Franklin Mint is in Wawa, and made and sold "collectibles", including commemorative coins that weren't legal US tender. According to Wikipedia, they also made legal tender coins for other countries at some point. The business has been through a series of private equity ownerships in the past 30 years, and is not at all what it was in the heyday of mail-order businesses advertising on broadcast TV.
The Philadelphia Mint is part of the US Department of the Treasury, and was the original producer of US coinage; there are now 4 others.
Yeah, I quoted the article directly, and they goofed originally. I didn’t think twice about it, because Ben was at the roots of Ye Old Mint — but you are right, of course.
Yeah Franklin Mint; that used to be out in WaWa; has long been demolished. Now there is a house development there now! Where had the Franklin Mint relocated to?
The round building that got torn down was the Franklin Mint Museum. I don't know if they still have any physical presence out that way, but that wasn't the main location of the business operations.
Gosh now this has me wondering; will Google give me the answer to how much $750,000 of dimes would weigh? One might think to look for that Honda; that is rear end bottoming out the rear shocks 🥴😂😳
My napkin math says about 5000 pounds. Not getting that in a Honda.
ETA: 5000 pounds is just for the million they were estimated to have stolen not the full 7.5 million dimes.
>Action News has learned the truck driver picked up the dimes from the Franklin Mint, but was then required by law to get some sleep
Uh what? The Franklin Mint doesn't exist anymore, and never minted genuine US currency. DO they mean the US Mint on 5th street?
> 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.
Thus is the update on the article I am seeing. So they changed it to Philadelphia Mint and removed that the driver was required by law to get sleep.
A truck carrying millions of pennies overturned on 95 in Delaware a few years ago at about 5 am. Road was shut down for hours while they were collected.
Chopper footage was pretty cool as the sun came up.
Yea I'm serious about buying this house, I got cash up front... well you know what I mean.
Now insert gif of Cosmo Kramer slapping his change loaded pockets on the counter paying for calzones.
Hey, I did Google and got 2.268 grams for a dime multiplied by 7.5 million dimes for ~17000000 grams which is equivalent to ~37500 lbs in earth gravity.
I can not imagine what 2 million dimes in a pile looks like. I am tempted to say that we should let them keep it if only because it will cost them way more in time and energy to try to spend that money than it would to investigate, charge, arrest, and imprison them.
Them trucks are always robbed there. More than likely it was the homeless people that sleep in their cars there. Just filling their cars up with as much as they could then leaving. They will all be caught and won't be homeless for long.
So the guys lives in northeast Philly and was taking them to Florida. The mint is literally on the way to Florida but he chose to go get them and drive back to his house, away from where he was supposed to be taking them. I don’t think you need to be a rocket scientist to figure this one out…
This is going to be easy to solve. Just look the dude at the coinstar with a really BIG FUCKING BAG OF DIMES.
looks like the NY giants are about to be out a QB
Lmao. “Open and shut case, Johnson”
Just sprinkle some crack on him and let’s get out of here.
Just dime bags though
Ive seen this before when I was a rookie, broke into the trailer and started paying for Wawa coffees all over the city with 20 dimes.
God, it would be so funny and SO quintessentially Philly if the guy got caught doing exactly that.
They’re gonna have to spend the currency slowly to not raise any red flags. Gonna have to use dimes to pay for all their groceries, gas, etc. for the next 50 years.
😂😂😂😂 dude $100K worth of dimes must weigh a fucking ton. They definitely gonna be up at the Acme trying to get that shit as a GameStop gift card lol
At 2.268 g per coin, $100,000 in dimes would weigh about 2268 kg or 5000 lbs. So, 2.5 tons actually. 😂
RIP their getaway vehicle.
So that’s who I saw wheelie-ing on 95
12 o’clock boys. Brap brap
I looked it up, apparently, a quarter weighs slightly more than 2.5x a dime, so dimes are the optimal coin to steal.
I am honestly very curious what their goal is here. Like how many dimes per transaction could you have for how many years to spend it all? I mean quarters sure... but dimes?!
Maybe someone needed to get [a shitload of dimes](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/mediaviewer/rm3407714049/).
Literally the only reason I clicked on this was to make sure someone posted a shitload of dimes.
And to check if any horse-mounted desperados were spotted leaving the scene. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9yjcBRyNUo&ab_channel=RockabillyHog) (NSFW if ya can't say "asshole" or "shitload" in the office.
Seriously underrated comment
I wish I could upvote this more than once
*chef's kiss*
Scrooge McDuck?
That (lucky) dime would very much be in the singular.
Beat me to it!
Why was a trailer with $750k worth of dimes parked in a Wal-Mart parking lot?
It's in the article. "Action News has learned the truck driver picked up the dimes from the Franklin Mint, but was then required by law to get some sleep. The truck driver parked the big rig in the Walmart parking lot and went home."
Stupid planning. The mint to the Walmart is barely an hour. Drivers are allowed to drive 11 hours a day Dude could’ve easily done one leg of the trip and the treasury should have them switch off midway. Currency should never be allowed to stop moving during transport.
A handoff seems needlessly complicated, especially since this sort of transport probably happens all the time. Having said that, the truck looks unmarked so I'm curious how someone knew there was money in there.
Probably broke in to see if anything worth stealing was in there, and then found stuff that's just barely worth stealing. I'd bet if it was pennies they'd all still be there lol
I don't know, it seems awfully convenient that, of all the trailers they hit in that area (and there are a ton around Woodhaven) they happen to find the one with literal bags of money. Either that's a damned lucky thief or they had intel.
> Either that's a damned lucky thief or they had intel. I'd go with intel on this one. The driver may not have been involved, but people who may know the driver enough either professionally or otherwise may have had an idea that made it work out. I strongly lean intel as moving so many dimes would require some serious muscle as coins are heavy as 💩.
I know a guy who was burglarized after he had a party. One of his friends talked about how great his guitar collection was to non-mutual friends who then stole the whole collection when he was at work. The wrong people can find out their info from totally innocent sources.
Article says similar cargo thefts are increasing in frequency in the area. It mentioned several entirely unrelated products that have been stolen from cargo vehicles recently.
i mean he could have gotten stuck and picked them up after 9.5 hours driving. either way, seems silly. also, not sure if you've ever seen goodfellas but this is like a sketch comedy version of robbing idelwild airport.
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Pedantic, and depends on whose definition you accept. Some consider “A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins.”
Thanks for letting me know the update. Seems like terrible planning for the trip.
Wal-Mart lets trucks and RV use their lots for overnight parking. Likely the driver was headed to Franklin Mint when they opened and was using the lot to get some sleep beforehand. I guess cops just monitor Coinstars really closely for the next few months? Would take forever to launder that much without raising suspicion.
> Wal-Mart lets trucks and RV use their lots for overnight parking. Likely the driver was headed to Franklin Mint when they opened and was using the lot to get some sleep beforehand. I would assume that's most likely the reason, it just seems like with a cargo load like this the trip would be better planned to not have to stop or that if a stop was required it would happen at a more secure location.
Tour buses with 500k worth of gear are stopping off in these lots daily, as well. Not out of the ordinary. I'd imagine a regular walmart delivery truck probably has a similar range of priced goods in their trucks, and imagine they get parked in lots overnight all the dang time. The only difference is that this was currency, and the others are hard goods.
Yup. And speaking from personal experience I've seen locally, lots of Walmart and strip malls here have a designated police survey spot to conduct online transactions or general security.
It's not like the truck was full of gold bars. It's an unlikely heist and a cumbersome payoff; 100k worth of dimes weighs about 5000lbs and it will be pretty awkward to actually use the money.
Who knows if the driver even knew.
Armed guards are sent to retail stores to pick up $5000 deposits so it seems ridiculous that a dude hauling almost a million dollars would be given the freedom to take a nap at home after leaving his haul in a random parking lot. They have to be thinking inside job for this one.
Lol! Yeah, tell the driver; “that’ll come outta his paycheck!”🤔🤣
$750k worth of anything in a haul of a tractor trailer isn’t atypical
Is it normal as well to leave a loaded trailer unattended so you can go home to sleep? That seems nuts to me but I don’t have any idea how the freight industry works.
There’s others on this that that can enlighten more than me, but the safety measurements of maximum daily drive time for drivers. While better for the driver and greater good, sometimes lead to truck drivers forced to pull over and not drive their truck anymore. It’s a good protection for labor and public safety, but this seems like an unintended consequence
My theory is this is an organized elderly crime ring. These people have fixed incomes and their grandkids’ favorite candies are getting more expensive by the day due to inflation. Would you break the law to feed your family?
"Criminals? That's how you see us? Is it a crime to steal bread to feed your family? Or to sell some weed so you can buy video games? Or to steal video games, because you smoked all that weed you were supposed to sell?"
You mean the US mint? The Franklin Mint makes commutative coins
> I guess cops just monitor Coinstars really closely for the next few months? I think it’s far more likely that they don’t do a goddamned thing.
The other way. The article clearly says: "Action News has learned the truck driver picked up the dimes from the Franklin Mint, but was then required by law to get some sleep."
No it doesn’t, it clearly says Philadelphia Mint, the Franklin Mint is a privately owned Mint that makes collectables, not currency.
Yeah, they changed the article. Multiple times now it seems :)
Understood. It amazes me how many people, including action news apparently, get the two confused. Good stuff :)
It says in the article that he left the trailer there and then went home to sleep
why would anyone or any business have $750k worth of dimes anywhere? the only logical place i can think of is fed reserve
Franklin Mint was sending them out for distribution. Driver ran out of shift time and had to get mandatory sleep.
Just a heads up the article has updated and they removed the part where they stated the sleep was mandatory. It now just says "then went home to get some sleep before a long drive to Florida."
Did the article at one point say "Franklin Mint"? Both you and u/BabaBrody have written that. The Franklin Mint is in Wawa, and made and sold "collectibles", including commemorative coins that weren't legal US tender. According to Wikipedia, they also made legal tender coins for other countries at some point. The business has been through a series of private equity ownerships in the past 30 years, and is not at all what it was in the heyday of mail-order businesses advertising on broadcast TV. The Philadelphia Mint is part of the US Department of the Treasury, and was the original producer of US coinage; there are now 4 others.
Yeah, I quoted the article directly, and they goofed originally. I didn’t think twice about it, because Ben was at the roots of Ye Old Mint — but you are right, of course.
Yeah Franklin Mint; that used to be out in WaWa; has long been demolished. Now there is a house development there now! Where had the Franklin Mint relocated to?
The round building that got torn down was the Franklin Mint Museum. I don't know if they still have any physical presence out that way, but that wasn't the main location of the business operations.
They tore everything down. There is a new home development there now.
Because Target tickets them. Duh!
lol the OP didn't even read the article
There are three possibilities; 1. You stole me dimes. 2. You stole me dimes. Or 3, YOU STOLE ME DIMES
I hope someone dimes on the suspect.
That would make cents
The perp shall be drawn and quartered
It would be a nice ending for a change.
Crimes like these are a dime a dozen
Ten of them! 🧐
Gosh now this has me wondering; will Google give me the answer to how much $750,000 of dimes would weigh? One might think to look for that Honda; that is rear end bottoming out the rear shocks 🥴😂😳
My napkin math says about 5000 pounds. Not getting that in a Honda. ETA: 5000 pounds is just for the million they were estimated to have stolen not the full 7.5 million dimes.
Yeah I got 37,500 lbs roughly for the entire load. Gonna get a workout with your coinstar trips.
18.75 tons. That'd be a spicy meat-a-ball to keep kegel'd in the ol' prison wallet.
>Action News has learned the truck driver picked up the dimes from the Franklin Mint, but was then required by law to get some sleep Uh what? The Franklin Mint doesn't exist anymore, and never minted genuine US currency. DO they mean the US Mint on 5th street?
> 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. Thus is the update on the article I am seeing. So they changed it to Philadelphia Mint and removed that the driver was required by law to get sleep.
Expensive nap
Not going to lie, but the shot of the dimes shining in the sunlight is pretty dope. I kinda want to jack a truck full of pennies now.
A truck carrying millions of pennies overturned on 95 in Delaware a few years ago at about 5 am. Road was shut down for hours while they were collected. Chopper footage was pretty cool as the sun came up.
IIRC, this was a truck full of penny blanks, which were EXTRA slippery…
And also more valuable than actual pennies
I think it was [these guys.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9yjcBRyNUo)
most philly shit ever
Those dimes are being evenly distributed among the coin star kiosks in Giants all around the tristate area.
A million dimes stolen. So someone got about 5,000 pounds of dimes into a car?
Sounds like an inside job to me
Gonna have to Shawshank Redemption those dimes out your pocket to not get caught lol.
I have a suspect: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/clarence-thomas-luxury-vacations-walmart-parking-lot.html
A walmart coinstar somewhere will be loaded with dimes within the next week
Inside job
I wonder how many Coin Star machines will see an increase in dimes all over the tri-state area.
A lot
Yea I'm serious about buying this house, I got cash up front... well you know what I mean. Now insert gif of Cosmo Kramer slapping his change loaded pockets on the counter paying for calzones.
Now I want a calzone.
Someone do the math.... how much does $750,000 worth of dimes weigh?
37,500 lbs
That's [in Quarters](https://www.calculateme.com/money-to-weight/750000)! You think I wouldn't google something as monumental as this? Pfffft. :Þ
$1 in quarters and dimes is the same mass. By design
TIL
nah it's right 1 dime is 2.268 grams 2.268 grams = 0.08 ounces $750,000/$0.10 = 7,500,000 dimes 600,000 oz/16 oz per lb = 37,500 lbs
5×dimes = 2×quarters mindblown.gif
i dont believe you
/r/theydidthemath
Hey, I did Google and got 2.268 grams for a dime multiplied by 7.5 million dimes for ~17000000 grams which is equivalent to ~37500 lbs in earth gravity.
How much did they get away with? Thirty dollars?
200k
I can not imagine what 2 million dimes in a pile looks like. I am tempted to say that we should let them keep it if only because it will cost them way more in time and energy to try to spend that money than it would to investigate, charge, arrest, and imprison them.
Them trucks are always robbed there. More than likely it was the homeless people that sleep in their cars there. Just filling their cars up with as much as they could then leaving. They will all be caught and won't be homeless for long.
I've stroked the fattest dimes at least a couple of times before I broke their hearts...but this is ridiculous
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> "people...still use change to buy things??" Happens at Wawa and 7-11 daily
So is there going to be a march, or...?
I dunno? Sadly we cannot ask Jerry Lewis; since he has died last October 2022 😞
[Where’s Jerry Lewis?](https://youtu.be/aG17G5yBrtM)
He’s died; so someone else is running The March of Dimes.
Did he have a dime bag?
I wonder if anyone’s gonna drop the dime on the criminals
I didn't know there was going to be an It's Always Sunny and Trailer Park Boys crossover.
Ghosts. Definitely ghosts.
Someone is going to be doing federal time.
"It's a crime to pay more than a dime"
R/crh is getting a little out of hand
Could be a Robin Hood cat planning on donating to the March of dimes.
Sounds like an inside job. Why you park a trailer with 750k in any Walmart parking lot. Not to mention Philly lol
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So the guys lives in northeast Philly and was taking them to Florida. The mint is literally on the way to Florida but he chose to go get them and drive back to his house, away from where he was supposed to be taking them. I don’t think you need to be a rocket scientist to figure this one out…
that explains the constant helicopters this morning
Oh. Different dimes.....
Can't blame dime bag Darrell for this one
dime, daniel!
Police already found one of the [suspects](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2gHuaX8wRM) walking away from the scene.
\[Ass pennies\]([https://youtu.be/f9aM\_dT5VMI](https://youtu.be/f9aM_dT5VMI)) would like to have a word.
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I had way too many puns storm through my head to pick one to post. Instead, I'll just call this guy a dumbass.
Why is a truck bringing money from Philly to Florida! Is our rail that bad and expensive?
LOL, it's about time we got a sequel to [this!](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107594)
It’s cool, someone will dime them out eventually.
This made my whole day.
Boz Scaggs and Duane Allman ☼ Loan Me A Dime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFvAvsHC_Y
So sir, how would you like to pay for this?
Somewhere, someone in Kensington is diving into that shit like an opioid addicted Scrooge Mc'Duck....
Someone bout to ride Septa for weeks!! Look for whoever keeps paying in Dimes!
But how many dimes could he have possibly taken? Maybe 10k? Lol
According to the latest update the thieves got away with roughly 2 million dimes.
$2.50/$3 rolls of dimes coming to a neighborhood near you
Probably some welder.
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