Brother, are you able to spare 8 million dimes?
A Texas freeway was shut down all day after practically $800,000 value of dimes burst free after an 18-wheeler overturned round 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Video exhibits work crews painstakingly clearing the dimes off the facet of US 287 in Alvord, a cleanup effort that took round 14 hours.
The Texas Division of Public Security mentioned the spillage occurred when the driving force veered off the roadway and overcorrected, inflicting the truck to roll onto its facet, Fox 4 Information reported.
The roadway ended up being closed till roughly 7 p.m. as employees used shovels and brooms and store vacs to suck up the deluge of 10-cent items. Video even confirmed one employee selecting them up by hand one after the other.
The cleanup effort even deployed what look like leaf-sucking vehicles to vacuum up the errant cash, pictures taken on the scene present.
The truck driver and a passenger had been dropped at an area hospital with minor accidents, the outlet wrote.
It was not instantly clear why the truck was carrying some 40,000 kilos of unfastened dimes, nor was it identified whether or not they had been all recovered.
