Kicker: Dime doesn’t pay

NICK EICHER, HOST: Well they say crime doesn’t pay, but it apparently makes change. Two-million dimes to be exact.

Last week, somebody robbed a truck filled with them.

Here’s what happened. During the 12-hundred-mile drive from the Philadelphia mint down to Miami, the truck driver had to stop for the night, and so he parked in a Wal-Mart.

Bad idea. When he returned the next morning, the evidence was all over the place. Here’s CBS News Philadelphia.

CBS: The theft of more than $200,000 in dimes was a sloppy heist where the thieves spilled their loot all over the ground while transferring the 10 cent pieces from large heavy bags to whatever they carried them away in.

And what they carried away was about 5 tons of dimes, but I’ve got to believe they’re not moving very fast. And I have no idea how they plan to offload this mountain of moolah. But let’s just say it this way, all the dime stores in a hundred-mile radius ought to be very suspicious of large purchases. With all that change in their pockets, cha-ching, cha-ching, you’ll probably hear the bad guys coming.

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