Weekly IC Poll 12/9/07

[shaggy]

If you see a penny do you pick it up or leave it?

[James]

Weird. Just this afternoon I found a two pence coin and picked it up. It was in my own home, but I found it nontheless. It blended in well with our brown carpet. I put it in the money pot we keep.

I suppose out on the street, 50p is the lowest I would pick up.

[Hydrobond]

I hate loose change with a passion.  Leave it.

[Pop Culture Portal]

Pick it up...I need every bit I can find.

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

I pick it up.

I am like squirrel.

Shiny things.

[Alabama-Shrimp]

if its free money then im there! in fact the other week i found a nice pile of 1p and 2p coins on the wall in a car park which was nice

[Ghost Soldier]

Pick it up.  Change adds up to dollars real quick.

[TraderJake]

Not worth my time. Think of all the pennies in landfills. If you could gather them all up I bet you'd be rich.

[Tan]

Scott sent me this link yesterday, I thought it appropriate:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...st/odd100_million_pennies

[OatBob]

the US currently has a ban on the export of coins.  At the current rate, pennies aren't even worth the copper they're minted from, so melting them down could be a marginally profitable venture.  For the first time in a while, I don't even mind getting Canadian coins mixed in with my regular change.

[Izret101]

Copper is at approx 3$s a pound right now., it was over 3 for a little while.(we keep the scrap metal from jobs copper, brass, etc to sell.)

It costs the mint 1.5 cents to make a penny.

I pick it up more often than not. Working at a convenience store i came across alot of loose change and bills :-)

[Tan]

Copper is at approx 3$s a pound right now., it was over 3 for a little while.(we keep the scrap metal from jobs copper, brass, etc to sell.)

It costs the mint 1.5 cents to make a penny.

I pick it up more often than not. Working at a convenience store i came across alot of loose change and bills :-)

Wow. I worked at a Scrap yard 10 years or so ago and copper then was about 65 cents a pound or so. There was always a price flucuation month to month but not much more than 20 cents either way. Hell even then people would steal wire and tubing and bring it in. 

[bum-man]

Yeah the price is so high last couple of years that people are just dying to get their hands on some.

http://www.usatoday.com/n...-09-26-copper-theft_x.htm

[Hydrobond]

^
Ohm my god, what a bunch of idiots.  I bet they thought their idea had real potential.  You just gotta wonder watt they were thinking. I mean, it must have been quite a shock to them when they realized it was a live wire.   Can they be charged with this crime postmortem?

(I love current event puns.)

Ok, that's enough.

[NES_Rules]

It seems around here, at least once a week someone is caught stealing scrap.  Every once in a while we get someone who cuts into live wires.  I go by a scrap yard on my way to school and nearly every day there is a police car in the parking lot, I assume he's looking for stolen stuff that's been sold. 


I always pick up change when I see it.  I usually pick up aluminum cans in parking lots too.  The damn things are worth more than pennies