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Semi-Truck Spills $800K in Dimes Causing Unfathomably Annoying Cleanup (www.thedrive.com)

submitted 2 months ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/offbeat@lemmy.ca

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some workers even ended up painstakingly picking up the dimes one at a time by hand and dumping them into one of the vacuum cleaners.

This cannot possibly be cost effective.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One cent every 4 seconds ends up in a whopping 9€$£ an hour, shrugs.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I like your unit of currency. Given it's a total cluster fuck I'll suggest it as the new EU digital currency. But given England left nobody will vote for this.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And now you know why most countries' coinage is ferrous.

[–] m4xie@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Dimes are ferrous. I use them as wargaming bases for my squads of 6mm soldiers.

[–] tetrachromacy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Boys! I found the shitload of dimes that Taggert sent us to find! We can finally raid Rock Ridge! Fill your hands, you sons of bitches!