Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Give no quarter ...
How do you explain this to the insurance adjusters?
- A truck carrying tons of quarters caught fire Tuesday and spilled most of them on a highway, where workers used heavy equipment, shovels and buckets to scoop up the singed coins.
The driver said the truck carried 39,000 pounds of new Kansas quarters, part of the U.S. Mint's state coin series, that were worth some $800,000, said Police Chief Michael Putnam.
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Police called in a front-end loader to scoop up the coins and deposit them in buckets. The road was partly closed for 12 hours, Putnam said.
Another truck from Colorado-based American Armored Transport Inc. was headed to the wreck site to collect the quarters.
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