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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 2515526, member: 26030&quot;](To be fair, my title is a bit off!&nbsp; These were copper planchets on the way to the mint.)</p><p><br /></p><p>From a News Report:</p><p><br /></p><p>Americans have a troubled relationship with the penny. John Oliver once said the copper-plated zinc disk “hangs around for no reason, like an appendix.” President Obama has called the penny a “metaphor” for the government’s inability to get “rid of things that don’t work,” and there is even an organization dedicated to retiring the little guy.</p><p><br /></p><p>And on Thursday, for 13 hours, drivers in Delaware learned to loathe the penny, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>At 1:53 a.m., a tractor-trailer carting 45,000 pounds of them overturned on Interstate 95 and caught fire, spewing the shiny bits across the road and ensnaring traffic for 13 hours, Delaware State Police said. The pennies, still blank, were en route to the Philadelphia Mint to be stamped with President Abraham Lincoln’s face and officially made into money.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/Penny1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>State police said the crash was caused when the driver, Stefan Marinkovic, 25, of Chicago, veered the tractor into a concrete barrier, and it’s unclear why that happened. Marinkovic was able to escape from the burning tractor and was later transported to a hospital with injuries that appeared to be not life-threatening. He was cited by troopers for inattentive driving.</p><p><br /></p><p>While waiting for traffic to clear, drivers pulled off into gas station parking lots, reported the News Journal, and one woman opened all her car doors, climbed into her trunk and read a paperback book.</p><p><br /></p><p>“Now those delays make cents,” one person wrote on Twitter.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/Penny2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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