PennyFinder
New member
Reimer Truck Working For Royal Cdn Mint Crashes
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tipped mint truck spills coin booty in Kamloops
Cam Fortems and Robert Koopmans, Kamloops Daily News
Published: Friday, February 08, 2008
KAMLOOPS, B.C. -- Anyone hoping to head out with a metal detector
Saturday looking for spilled treasure at the site of a Kamloops crash
involving a Royal Canadian Mint truck can forget it - there's no
'gold' in them hills.
Crews did the job today, combing through snow and slush to retrieve
tens of thousands of dollars of hard cash - pennies and Olympic-design
quarters.
The coins, destined to hit the market Feb. 20, landed instead down an
embankment late Thursday after a semi-trailer travelling west from
Kamloops rolled off the Trans-Canada Highway.
Bruce Bischoff, a supervisor with Don's Towing and part of the
recovery operation, had a message to potential scavengers hoping to
cash in from the crash.
"There will be a metal detector out here tonight," Bischoff said
today. "It will be combed through. Guys with metal detectors might as
well stay away because there won't be anything left."
This afternoon a dozen workers contracted by an insurance company
rooted through the snow and dirt unearthing coins.
RCMP Const. Dave Kelly said the incident occurred around 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, about two kilometres west of the Kamloops Lake lookout.
The westbound transport truck may have been driving too fast for road
conditions, and slid on a curve. The rig tipped, went through the
ditch and down a five-metre embankment, spilling its load.
A skid-steer loader on tracks wheeled the coins up a trail where they
were loaded on another semi-trailer.
The quarters spilled out of brick-shaped cardboard boxes of quarters
stamped "Snowboard - Do not distribute prior to Feb. 20."
Kelly said the driver and a passenger were not injured, although both
were taken to hospital as a precaution.
The rig's driver, Barry Fetch, blamed ice on the highway.
Christine Aquino, communications director for the Royal Canadian Mint,
said the truck was loaded with pennies and quarters bound for the
Lower Mainland.
The quarters were part of a new series of 2010 Winter Olympic coins,
she said.
She wouldn't disclose how much the load of cash was worth, citing
security reasons.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6c79b12a-89ff-4353-8d02-c5c1af8d23cf&k=29128
Although not mentioned in the story the truck was a Reimer one and it
was originally stated the accident happened in Savona. Its parent
company YRC Worldwide Inc recently took a downgrade in its credit
rating. It is almost entirely owned by mutual funds and company
officers.
A year later I went to find it. I found it and knew they couldn't possibly get them all!
Yes Sir, I found 2 Olympic Snowboarder quarters and a penny amonst the debris.
Also I found some Canadian Mint boxes they came in and lots of rivets from the trailer, I kept one.
The truck was an International.
PennyFinder
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tipped mint truck spills coin booty in Kamloops
Cam Fortems and Robert Koopmans, Kamloops Daily News
Published: Friday, February 08, 2008
KAMLOOPS, B.C. -- Anyone hoping to head out with a metal detector
Saturday looking for spilled treasure at the site of a Kamloops crash
involving a Royal Canadian Mint truck can forget it - there's no
'gold' in them hills.
Crews did the job today, combing through snow and slush to retrieve
tens of thousands of dollars of hard cash - pennies and Olympic-design
quarters.
The coins, destined to hit the market Feb. 20, landed instead down an
embankment late Thursday after a semi-trailer travelling west from
Kamloops rolled off the Trans-Canada Highway.
Bruce Bischoff, a supervisor with Don's Towing and part of the
recovery operation, had a message to potential scavengers hoping to
cash in from the crash.
"There will be a metal detector out here tonight," Bischoff said
today. "It will be combed through. Guys with metal detectors might as
well stay away because there won't be anything left."
This afternoon a dozen workers contracted by an insurance company
rooted through the snow and dirt unearthing coins.
RCMP Const. Dave Kelly said the incident occurred around 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, about two kilometres west of the Kamloops Lake lookout.
The westbound transport truck may have been driving too fast for road
conditions, and slid on a curve. The rig tipped, went through the
ditch and down a five-metre embankment, spilling its load.
A skid-steer loader on tracks wheeled the coins up a trail where they
were loaded on another semi-trailer.
The quarters spilled out of brick-shaped cardboard boxes of quarters
stamped "Snowboard - Do not distribute prior to Feb. 20."
Kelly said the driver and a passenger were not injured, although both
were taken to hospital as a precaution.
The rig's driver, Barry Fetch, blamed ice on the highway.
Christine Aquino, communications director for the Royal Canadian Mint,
said the truck was loaded with pennies and quarters bound for the
Lower Mainland.
The quarters were part of a new series of 2010 Winter Olympic coins,
she said.
She wouldn't disclose how much the load of cash was worth, citing
security reasons.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6c79b12a-89ff-4353-8d02-c5c1af8d23cf&k=29128
Although not mentioned in the story the truck was a Reimer one and it
was originally stated the accident happened in Savona. Its parent
company YRC Worldwide Inc recently took a downgrade in its credit
rating. It is almost entirely owned by mutual funds and company
officers.
A year later I went to find it. I found it and knew they couldn't possibly get them all!
Yes Sir, I found 2 Olympic Snowboarder quarters and a penny amonst the debris.
Also I found some Canadian Mint boxes they came in and lots of rivets from the trailer, I kept one.
The truck was an International.
PennyFinder
I sure would have. I'll bet there are still coins in them thar hills.
