Armored truck spares change on Good-Latimer Expressway in Dallas
Arizona Coin Collector
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Armored truck spares change on Good-Latimer Expressway in Dallas
03:01 PM CDT on Thursday, August 6, 2009
By CHARLES SCUDDER
The Dallas Morning News
cscu...@dallasnews.com
A Loomis armored truck that hit a bump spilled
$1,500 worth of quarters on Good-Latimer
Expressway near downtown Dallas this morning,
according to a city employee.
Dallas city employee Reba Spence said that when
the truck's back door opened shortly before 9 a.m.,
three bags filled with rolls of quarters fell
out. Coins scattered across the road.
"I think we got most of them up," said Spence,
who works in right-of-way management.
Authorities shut down the road between Hickory and
Dawson streets for about a half hour as crews and
officers picked up the quarters.
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Arizona Coin Collector
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This link below from NBC has a video of them using shovels
and a vacuum cleaner picking up the coins. Funny to
watch.
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local-beat/Armored-Truck-Spills-1500-in-Quarters-52599662.html
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Jerry Dennis
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> This link below from NBC has a video of them using shovels
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Did Larry (aka Amastad) happen to be in Dallas that day?
Jerry
Mr. Jaggers
Yes, he sped northward in his big pick'em-up truck as soon as he heard the
news. He must have thought he was being most clever, what with his false
nose and moustache beneath those huge black-rimmed glasses, but I recognized
him immediately. He was on hands and knees with a big magnet, hoping that
some steelies would have been in the mix. And we all know how he is about
steelies.
BTW, Jerry, what's it going to take to get him back on here?
James the Sleuth
Jerry Dennis
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No idea, James. I'll invite him to join the Christmas Swap. Perhaps,
he'll come back. Maybe if we taught him another new chord, his
interest would be piqued. He already knows F#m7 and A6. :-)
Jerry
Mr. Jaggers
I have an ancient video of him pickin' and grinnin' with his 6-string, and,
no question, he knows a lot more than those two chords! But he hasn't
mentioned Lucille, his blues axe, for a long time either. At one time we
had big plans to sublet the storage space over Wes C's Georgetown UT coin
shop, fix it up, and serenade passersby from the second-story window, he on
guitar and I on alto sax, but Wes' departure dashed those hopes. 8<(
Maybe it will take retirement to bring him back. I hope that's all it is.
James the Nostalgic