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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dreamer94, post: 305289, member: 6449&quot;]I heard about this today on MSNBC. </p><p><br /></p><p>An organization called Common Cents has a project called &quot;Penny Harvest Field&quot; which has collected an estimated 100 million &quot;pennies&quot; (apologies to people who insist on the term &quot;cents&quot;; it&#039;s their choice of words, not mine) which were all dumped into a giant box at Rockefeller Center.&nbsp; A video flyover of the collection can be seen <a href="http://www.commoncents.org/go.cfm/4A29F493-3048-32DA-1849D69F5EE1F1CF" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.commoncents.org/go.cfm/4A29F493-3048-32DA-1849D69F5EE1F1CF" rel="nofollow">here</a>. </p><p>(<a href="http://www.commoncents.org/go.cfm/4A29F493-3048-32DA-1849D69F5EE1F1CF" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.commoncents.org/go.cfm/4A29F493-3048-32DA-1849D69F5EE1F1CF" rel="nofollow">http://www.commoncents.org/go.cfm/4A29F493-3048-32DA-1849D69F5EE1F1CF</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>According to the NY Times: </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Penny Lane, or the Penny Harvest Field at Rockefeller Center, as it is&nbsp; officially called, will be placed on a pedestrian walkway between 50th and 51st&nbsp; Streets, and Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas. The Harvest Field,&nbsp; which is sponsored by Tishman Speyer, the company that controls Rockefeller&nbsp; Center, will be open free to the public every day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., through&nbsp; Dec. 31.</p><p><br /></p><p>By Saturday, volunteers — some from the 830 elementary and middle schools&nbsp; that organized penny-collecting campaigns — will begin emptying the sacks in a&nbsp; penny pour of sorts, filling a field that will stretch, curb to curb, 165 feet&nbsp; long and 30 feet wide, with pennies stacked 8 inches deep.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;When the field closes, we will use two specialized vacuum trucks to literally&nbsp; suction the pennies out of the field! The pennies will be removed at a rate of&nbsp; $1,000 per minute and be emptied into twenty-five 20-foot cargo boxes.&nbsp; Throughout the night the cargo boxes will continually be trucked off-site. Over&nbsp; the next few days the pennies will be emptied into giant fortified duffle bags&nbsp; (ballistic bags). </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, but the vacuum trucks will be wearing cotton gloves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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