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

submitted 1 month ago by otter to c/offbeat

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.