Thursday, August 14, 2008

What does change drive?

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If it's $8,000 in change (literally - coins in 16 coffee cans), and you're James Jones - it's a new Silverado. James brought his change to a car dealership in Ohio, to make a down payment.

Now seventy, James said his old truck ran him over when the parking break failed, so it was time to get a new one.

It took an hour and half to count all the change. A former engineer by trade, James said that he doesn't like banks, and paper money will burn, so he kept all his savings in coins.

Now, that too qualifies as a time for change!

Here's the link to a longer BBC article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7559881.stm

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