Armored Truck Springs Cash Leak on Highway
It wasn’t quite pennies from heaven, but loose change that fell from an armored truck’s open back door had children scrambling in the street for a share.
“A few kids must have got away with some dimes and quarters,” when coins tumbled from the truck as it drove through the Buffalo suburb, police Sgt. Dan Wojtaszczyk said Friday.
Elizabeth Safe was driving behind the truck Thursday afternoon when coins fell out as the truck went over a bump. She said she honked her horn to get the driver’s attention. When the truck stopped, she told three men inside money had fallen out.
The men went back to scoop up as much change as they could find and asked onlookers for containers to hold the coins, Safe said.
After the armored truck left, the children swooped in to collect the remaining change, Wojtaszczyk said.
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