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| | Subject: Putting pennies on railroad tracks Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:54 am | |
| Has anybody here ever done this? It's supposed to be illegal since it's defamation to money, but seriously who cares about a few pennies? Of course the thing I always wondered is WHY pennies when nickels are so much thicker and what would they look like flattened? | |
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Tony Marino
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| | Subject: Re: Putting pennies on railroad tracks Tue Jul 19, 2011 12:35 pm | |
| We used to do that as kids put the pennies on the track just before the train came rolling in. I guess we got a kick out of the flattened penny. It was pretty lame but this is what kids do. | |
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Alan Smithee
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| | Subject: Re: Putting pennies on railroad tracks Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:15 pm | |
| I think it is only illegal to do it with fraudulent intent so if you don't try to spend the flattened coin you shouldn’t be guilty of a crime. As far as I know, those arcade coin press machines are still in use. | |
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Marc™
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| | Subject: Re: Putting pennies on railroad tracks Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:48 pm | |
| This is the first time I ever heard of doing such a thing. | |
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CeCe
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| | Subject: Re: Putting pennies on railroad tracks Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:50 pm | |
| - Marc™ wrote:
- This is the first time I ever heard of doing such a thing.
Me too. Never heard of it before. | |
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Nystyle709
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| | Subject: Re: Putting pennies on railroad tracks Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:54 pm | |
| Nah. I didn't play on the railroad growing up. | |
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Shale
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| | Subject: Re: Putting pennies on railroad tracks Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:12 pm | |
| - CeCe wrote:
- Marc™ wrote:
- This is the first time I ever heard of doing such a thing.
Me too. Never heard of it before. Oh, poor underprivileged kids denied so much fun.
If you were lucky it would bounce off the track after one wheel so the penny would be flat and oval shaped and you could still see the image and words on it. | |
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wants2laugh
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| | Subject: Re: Putting pennies on railroad tracks Wed Jul 20, 2011 2:35 am | |
| never heard of this. had lots of fun throwing our sneakers on the power lines tho | |
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Nystyle709
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| | Subject: Re: Putting pennies on railroad tracks Wed Jul 20, 2011 8:32 am | |
| - wants2laugh wrote:
- never heard of this. had lots of fun throwing our sneakers on the power lines tho
Okay....someone please explain to me what was the purpose of that. I heard it was supposed to be symbolic of something. | |
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