Truck Spill Dumps Eight Million Dimes in Texas

We've covered truck spills that made unbelievable messes, like slime eels, beer and Doritos, milk, ink, and even bees. The latest presents some unique challenges in cleanup, although it's not gross at all.

A semi truck carrying $800,000 in newly-minted dimes overturned on Highway 287 in Alvord, Texas. We don't know where the truck was going, but the dimes were not secured in rolls or bags, so some suspect they were going to a facility to be packaged. So that's eight million dimes spilled onto the highway and shoulder. Cleanup crews used industrial vacuums to pick up the biggest part of the dimes, but still had to resort to using brooms and rakes and then getting on their hands and knees to pick up the coins. Someone should calculate whether picking up the last of the dimes cost more than they were worth. There is no word yet as to whether all the dimes are accounted for. Read the story as we know it at The Drive. -via reddit