[VIDEO] Crafty Thieves Just Stole 2 Million DIMES in Broad Daylight

Can you imagine being a bad guy and deciding you’re gonna pull off your first big heist, so you and a friend get together to decide what you’re going to do - rob a bank? Grab some gold bars? Maybe take down a jewelry store and run away with a bunch of South African diamonds? 

No? 

Okay, what about stealing dimes? Yes, you heard me, DIMES - two million of them…

Well, that’s exactly what these crafty thieves did. 

Newser reported that Philadelphia police are looking for one or more thieves who made off with 2 million dimes weighing an estimated 5 tons. A tractor-trailer had picked up $750,000 in dimes from the Philadelphia Mint, which were to be taken to Florida. The driver had parked the truck in a Walmart lot in the northeastern part of the city on Wednesday before leaving for their nearby home to get some sleep, intending to return Thursday morning, police say, adding this is "common practice," per WPVI. By 6 am, however, police responded to a report of a break-in, only to find thousands of dimes scattered "all over the parking lot, all down the street," Philadelphia Police Capt. John Ryan says, per NBC News.

Ryan suspects thieves used bolt cutters to access the truck's hold. They may not have had any idea of what it held, he says, noting there's been a recent increase in cargo thefts in Philadelphia, with "lamb, chicken, TVs, refrigerators," alcohol, and more taken. The dimes were in bags on pallets and the thieves "were trying to cross-load the dimes into other things to carry it away," he notes. Police initially estimated 1 million dimes were stolen, but later doubled that estimate to 2 million, or $200,000, per WPVI. The coins would've weighed about 10,000 pounds, according to the outlet. Police are now reviewing surveillance footage in an effort to put together a suspect description.

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I don’t know about this. What’s their follow-up plan? Go to the car dealership and buy a new BMW and when the salesman asks for the deposit, “Will that be can or credit,” and the thieves respond and say, “DIMES….” 

I think the jig will be up when that happens.