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Thomas More said:
That is terrible! Dimes are too low value to be used any more, along with pennies and nickles.

They had to pick up the dimes, because millions of dimes do add up to hundreds of $1000s, but an individual can only pick them up at a fairly low rate per hour. It must have been unbelievably tedious work to clean this up!
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A single small hat representative would have collected the entire hoard by hand in under 30 minutes.
 
Caduceus said:
A single small hat representative would have collected the entire hoard by hand in under 30 minutes.
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That reminded me of something that went on in a city I used to live in. There was a place called "the bins" where Goodwill sent all of its stuff that was going to be trashed, and people had a chance to buy things for pennies per pound of stuff. It was a reseller's goldmine, which my father was into at the time. Anyway, one time I went in there and noticed a line of immigrant women standing by the wall doing nothing. They did nothing the entire time I was there. I mentioned it to my dad, and he said they wait until new bins come out every few hours, and all they do is comb through every purse they find and look for coins and cash that's been left behind. It must have been just lucrative enough where a whole team of them were there every day just to mine for loose change.
 
thinkreadwritecode said:
That reminded me of something that went on in a city I used to live in. There was a place called "the bins" where Goodwill sent all of its stuff that was going to be trashed, and people had a chance to buy things for pennies per pound of stuff. It was a reseller's goldmine, which my father was into at the time. Anyway, one time I went in there and noticed a line of immigrant women standing by the wall doing nothing. They did nothing the entire time I was there. I mentioned it to my dad, and he said they wait until new bins come out every few hours, and all they do is comb through every purse they find and look for coins and cash that's been left behind. It must have been just lucrative enough where a whole team of them were there every day just to mine for loose change.
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There are "silver miners" at casinos, they go around looking for machines where people left money in because they didn't have enough for the next spin and didn't cash it out.
 
Not sure if this is the appropriate thread for this, but:

A Negress UN judge from Uganda who was studying for her Ph.D. in Law from Oxford, has recently been convicted and sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for keeping another Ugandan Negress in involuntary servitude/slavery.

www.theguardian.com

UN judge jailed in UK after forcing woman to work as slave

Lydia Mugambe stopped young Ugandan woman holding down steady job and made her work as her maid, court told
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

"Lydia Mugambe, 50, was found to have taken advantage of her status in relation to the Ugandan woman in the “most egregious way” while Mugambe studied for a PhD in law at the University of Oxford.

Mugambe was found guilty in March of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law, facilitating travel with a view to exploitation, forcing someone to work, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness after a trial.

Mugambe, who is also a high court judge in Uganda, stopped the woman holding down steady employment and forced her to work as her maid and provide childcare, prosecutors said."

"Judge Foxton, sentencing Mugambe at Oxford crown court on Friday, said it was a “very sad case”, outlining Mugambe’s legal accomplishments including work concerning the protection of human rights." Oh, the irony...


I'm just looking at my watch right now, counting the minutes/hours until they somehow try to blame this one on Winston Churchill and/or Queen Victoria...
 
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