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Posted: 4/13/2023 4:17:33 PM EDT

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Seems like a lot of risk and work for whatever amount they probably actually got away with.

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:19:17 PM EDT

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Wonder how many trips up and down the Garden State Parkway they were planning on making...

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:20:01 PM EDT

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Thank you.

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:29:54 PM EDT

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Not the smartest thieves, but $100K is still $100K.

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:31:54 PM EDT

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Slim pickens married one of my great aunts on dads side of the family.
Wasn’t born quite yet before he passed.

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:37:01 PM EDT

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You...You....an....You!!! Remember 1964 and earlier! Nothing after that! Got it?? Good. Get to work.

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:40:44 PM EDT

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I'm not gay, but 10 cents is 10 cents.

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:43:23 PM EDT

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I’ll give them .$10 for every dollar in dimes if they need quick cash.

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:43:26 PM EDT

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WTF are they going to do with dimes?

Quarters would be a lot easier to get rid of.

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Go to every single bank in the area with a jar full. Or put them in $5 rolls and spend them like 5'ers. Lots of places will take rolls of dimes and quarters.

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:44:18 PM EDT

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I would start staking out the coinstar machines.

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:45:28 PM EDT

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Trip to Vegas and play the dime slots for about 87 days.

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:45:41 PM EDT

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If the thieves got away with $100k that would be just under 5000 lbs. had to have several vehicles.

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:49:38 PM EDT

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That's about 37,500 lb of dimes. Jesus.

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So who has

a) hernia
b) arrest record
c) back issues

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:50:32 PM EDT

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If it was an inside job, the whole trailer would have been emptied in Philly. Gonna be lots of dimes used in NYC. I was once contacted to haul pennies IIRC out of the Philly Mint but my insurance didn't cover hauling money. Usually armed trucking companies like USAC and the ones with silver Volvos haul larger amounts.

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:51:29 PM EDT

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With inflation a penny for your thoughts are up to a dime now.

Posted: 4/13/2023 4:53:14 PM EDT

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Seems weird to me that they would transit money in a regular semi trailer. Would think it would be a little more secure.

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It's because it's not really worth anything.

Posted: 4/13/2023 7:22:26 PM EDT

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I live close to where this happened and I heard today that lots of trucks have been getting cut open there at night to see what’s inside, they don’t always steal the contents sometimes just a look see.
Also, heard a rumor there were about 10 people involved, don’t know if that’s true or not. Maybe cut open earlier then waited for help to arrive, IDK.

Laugh when I picture a gang of thieves sitting all day wrapping dimes.

Probably more profitable if they stole TV’s, easier to sell for quick cash.

Posted: 4/13/2023 7:34:15 PM EDT

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Trade 1 dime for 1 round of CCI MiniMag?

Posted: 4/13/2023 7:44:35 PM EDT

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Inside job? That would suck to try and move $100,000 in dimes

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Years ago I bought a bucket of 10K silver dimes ( $1K face)
It arrived in a 3 gallon bucket by USPO

$10K in bags could fit in a car. Trunk and backseat and floorboard covered
So they had a truck or two or several cars

Posted: 4/13/2023 7:47:17 PM EDT

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They truly were trading their hours for....
A handful of dimes!

YEEEEEAHH

Posted: 4/13/2023 7:48:27 PM EDT

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This

Posted: 4/13/2023 7:55:11 PM EDT

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FBI gonna get tipped off when somebody tries to order a thousand coin rolls off amazon.

Posted: 4/13/2023 8:28:08 PM EDT

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That would be a bitch to launder.

Guess they could open up a dime candy store.

Posted: 4/13/2023 8:41:05 PM EDT

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Don't be dropping dimes you'll find yo'self in da ditch

Posted: 4/13/2023 8:52:14 PM EDT

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Let me guess that Walmart's cameras were not operational.

Why would a driver pick up a load of money and then park it at Walmart to leave it. Seem suspicious???
But, how stupid would you be to steal 5k lbs of dimes?? Imagine the clapped out Camry with the tires bulging out from their loot.
That's kinda like the old westerns where they would rob the train and throw the thousands of $ in gold into a bag and jump on a horse. It's heavy and you can't carry as much as you'd think you can.

I would say it's a "high value" load simply because its actually money, but there are many shipments going down the road worth much more

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Yeah, $100K is $100K and dimes aren't serialized. If that truck was isolated and you had an idea no one would be checking up on it too rigorously, why not?

Posted: 4/13/2023 8:58:06 PM EDT

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That would be a bitch to launder.

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Even if they tried to got to every coinstar in the country it's going to raise suspicion trying to cash out hundreds of dollars in dimes.

Posted: 4/13/2023 8:58:26 PM EDT

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How in the hell do you cart off 5,000 lbs of anything?

Payload capacity of a modern pickup is 2000 lbs. You can probably get to 3000lbs before breaking things. So that's like 2 pickup beds full of dimes, each carry a half million dimes.

Posted: 4/13/2023 9:12:46 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/13/2023 9:17:08 PM EDT

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How in the hell do you cart off 5,000 lbs of anything?

Payload capacity of a modern pickup is 2000 lbs. You can probably get to 3000lbs before breaking things. So that's like 2 pickup beds full of dimes, each carry a half million dimes.

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Probably used a U-Haul lol.

Posted: 4/13/2023 9:31:03 PM EDT

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You guys are overthinking this. Crackies cut trailer open. Unknowingly hit the motherload. Back car up to trailer. Pour dimes out into trunk. Repeat 2-5 times.

Posted: 4/13/2023 9:39:11 PM EDT

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Probably used a U-Haul lol.

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How in the hell do you cart off 5,000 lbs of anything?

Payload capacity of a modern pickup is 2000 lbs. You can probably get to 3000lbs before breaking things. So that's like 2 pickup beds full of dimes, each carry a half million dimes.

Probably used a U-Haul lol.

That's true. If you are robbing tractor trailers, you probably have a big truck already.

Posted: 4/13/2023 9:40:35 PM EDT

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I hope someone dimes out the perps

Posted: 4/13/2023 9:41:28 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/13/2023 9:50:09 PM EDT

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They need to stop this penny ante crap and start stealing quarters.

Posted: 4/13/2023 9:53:26 PM EDT

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WTF are they going to do with dimes?

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Split it up into into small amounts in the hood and send them to money changers, have them bring back bills and let them keep a cut.

Posted: 4/13/2023 9:54:22 PM EDT

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I’ll give them .$10 for every dollar in dimes if they need quick cash.

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Exploiter of common thieves.

Posted: 4/13/2023 9:56:23 PM EDT

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They need to stop this penny ante crap and start stealing quarters.

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Susan B. Anthony dollars. Better return.

Posted: 4/13/2023 9:57:01 PM EDT

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I wish that the dumb masses knew the difference between robbery, burglary and theft.

Posted: 4/13/2023 9:59:46 PM EDT

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750,000 in dimes = 7,500,000 dimes.

A dime weighs 0.080 oz.

7.5 mil * .080 = 600,000 oz

600,000 oz = 37500 lbs

37500 lbs = 18.75 tons of dimes in a trailer?

Posted: 4/13/2023 10:03:41 PM EDT

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The Mints used to pack the dimes in large ballistic bags. There would be thousands of lbs in each bag. They're giant nylon bags which are pretty easy to open and steal from. They would put each ballistic bag on a metal skid and then load the skids into the trailer.

Posted: 4/13/2023 10:38:21 PM EDT

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The thieves watched "Pat Garret and Billy the Kid" and figured they could load up shotguns with dimes!

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Posted: 4/13/2023 11:35:16 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/13/2023 11:42:52 PM EDT

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I hope some dumb ass tries to Scrooge McDuck dive into the dimes and videos it.

Posted: 4/14/2023 12:03:18 AM EDT

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How heavy is that many dimes?

Posted: 4/14/2023 12:07:13 AM EDT

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The thieves watched "Pat Garret and Billy the Kid" and figured they could load up shotguns with dimes!

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Best buck eighty I ever spent

Posted: 4/14/2023 12:54:41 AM EDT

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What if this had been quarters, or half-dollars, instead of dimes?

Interestingly enough, the same amount of money in dimes vs quarters vs half-dollars weighs exactly the same.

Dimes are 2.268 grams

Quarters are 5.670 grams -- exactly 2.5x as much as dimes.

Half-dollars are 11.340 grams -- exactly 5x as much as dimes.

So they weigh exactly as much for the same amount of money, down to the 1/1,000th of a gram. 50 cents in dimes weighs exactly as much as 50 cents in quarters, which weighs exactly as much as 1 half-dollar.

If these thieves were smart, they would have hit a truck full of dollar coins, because they'd get almost 3x as much money for the same weight. 12.34 cents per gram for dollar coins, vs 4.4 cents per gram for dimes/quarters/half-dollars.

Pennies would be the worst, at 0.4 cents per gram.

If you want to do it by the amount of physical space taken up, dollar coins still win out, at 11.023 cents per cubic mm of volume.

They are 39.3x as space efficient as pennies.

All data from here.

TIL!

Posted: 4/14/2023 1:23:19 AM EDT

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I'm not a super math wiz, but 750,000 dimes does not equal $ 100,000. More like $ 75,000

ETA: Oof, I misread, it was $ 750,000 worth of dimes, or 7,500,000 dimes.