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Pillar of the Community
United States
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How many shop that you frequent have at least one coin glued to the floor just because they think it's funny to watch people try to pick it up.
I'm not thinking it is overly funny.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have never heard of that.
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Valued Member
United States
420 Posts |
wanna make it even more funny?  take a hammer and chisel with you next time you go in there  |
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 Australia
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If you ever find yourself in Adelaide, Australia, you can find apparently find quite a few. The following is taken from an article published in my coin club's magazine a year ago: Quote:
...coins scattered along the footpath of Rundle Street. These are embedded in the concrete with an occasional missing item but impressive none the less. I really paid attention when I caught sight of a 1937 crown. Chatting to the proprietor of Rundle Coins, I was advised that the coins were part of a street art project supported by the local council. The young artist apparently was quite serious about obtaining a good range of material and included in the items spread around are some very expensive American items as well as some expensive local items.
Each coin has a stud attached to it and was embedded in the concrete slabs the footpath is made of. Initially vandals would lift out whole slabs and break them up to try and retrieve the coins but this soon stopped as it really would have been a small return for the effort. So the footpaths of Adelaide are not paved in gold, just copper and silver in selected spots. So apparently you can call even a goofy practical joke "art" these days... Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Valued Member
United States
407 Posts |
I heard of that gag a long time ago, but I've never come across one, anywhere. Like the hundred dollar bill on a length of fishing line that always moves away when you bend over. It'd be funny to watch, for sure!
Steve
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Valued Member
United States
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I can't tell you how many guy's tried to pick up those coin's in a little bar I used to go to.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I heard of that gag a long time ago, but I've never come across one, anywhere. Like the hundred dollar bill on a length of fishing line that always moves away when you bend over. It'd be funny to watch, for sure!
i had that trick done to me, I was walking from my bus and then saw a dollar bill, I tried picking it up but it moved away from me so I tried stepping on it and still, that dollar bill pulled away, I looked up and saw 3 7th graders laughing. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I dunno....I think it's pretty funny.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
625 Posts |
Had a friend that used to glue down quarters just out of reach of someone sitting on the toilet. It was just far enough you had to get up and bend over to pick it up. Pretty funny I thought.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I have seen common base metal dollar coins Araldited to the pavement. Since they are common circulating coins, no value is lost if you damage them on removal. A sharp blow with a hammer and cold chisel will remove them. The U.S Trade Center in Sydney had about 20 or so Morgan dollars cemented into the face of supporting columns on the facade of their office. They were heavily damaged but not removed, because each of them had a spike silver soldered onto the coin which penetrated deeply into the reinforced concrete of the column. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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When I was in high school, quarters were commonly glued near doorways. It seems that when people pull open doors, they look down and then they have to try to hold the door open and pick up a coin that doesn't come up.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've never seen an example of it but that's pretty funny.
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Valued Member
United States
420 Posts |
i got to thinking about it, when I was a kid, there was a little store I used to go into when i'd visit family near Fayetteville NC- the had a rack of different gag's and magic tricks things like exploding cigarette loads, joy buzzers, and Buffalo nickels with a roofing nail soldered to the back- just hammer it in the floor, wasn't going to come up easy- I bought a few and took the to the fishing pier at the beach when I was about 8 or 9 very funny to watch |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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The one dealer told me a story about an old couple.
Grammy stopped and called grampy back...There's a quarter under my foot...pick it up.
an effort later and said coin is glued to the floor.
At least 4 store vendors watching and laughing.
Grampy gets up and starts screaming at Grammy for making a fool out of him and stormed off (The language was not nice from what I was told) leaving her standing there.
Although it sounds funny, I find that making a fool out of somebody just so you can get a laugh isn't right and downright bad Mojo
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Pillar of the Community
United States
790 Posts |
I saw some neat coins in the concrete while passing an "Arabian Nights" style ride at Disneyworld. I think they were from early Pakistan. My wife was so busy that even stopping to look was like an insult to her! As Rodney Dangerfield loves to say, I don't get no respect.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
958 Posts |
I worked at a out door mall and someone glued a quater to the sidewalk in the middle of the mall
so many people tried to pick it up it got crazy, I saw kids fight to get to it, Old people get angry it would not come up. During christmas time of all times right directly out infront of the store I worked at to. One time it cuased a huge crowd people almost trampled each other to get to the coin first .the next day or two the mall janitor had to come remove it becuase it cuased such a slow of traffic
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Posted 07/27/2010 03:16 am
