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Has anyone here ever glued a quarter to the sidewalk just to watch people try to pick it up?

PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,848 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Or am I the only idiot forum member to play this practical joke?image

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  • carscars Posts: 1,904
    When we poured concrete in my garage we stuck a quarter in it before it dried. Few have tried to pry it up.
    Its all relative
  • COALPORTERCOALPORTER Posts: 2,900 ✭✭
    Heat up a nickle in the cig. lighter and toss it out the window at the store parking lot. image
  • fastrudyfastrudy Posts: 2,096 ✭
    Glue a quarter to the inside of a top in a glass display case.
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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep, all the time. Right outside my shop on the sidewalk. DImes, nickels and cents as well.

    Fun for all and even those that try and fail to pick it up!

    Dab of superglue works wonders.

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  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    First time I had seen that done was in N Orleans.
  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,049 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I did for years on every April 1. Used epoxy to glue a half dollar to the sidewalk. Lots of laughs for the entire workplace.
  • CasmanCasman Posts: 3,935 ✭✭
    The guys at the Frat House in a run down Detroit area used to do this thing they called bum fishing, from the balcony, they'd use cans and dollar bills...
  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    I worked at a bar that had a quarter glued to the floor by the pool table and a Morgan silver soldered to a bolt that was run through the counter. I can't tell you how many drunks accused me of doing something to their money....geez.image
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  • EarlyDollarsEarlyDollars Posts: 85
    While at the U the roommates and I live above a popular drinking establishment. When we didn't have the funds to go out and participate in the festivities, we entertained ourselves by playing "Poo-Dollar."

    It involved a $1 or $5 bill and fresh pile of poo...you get the idea.
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,070 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can't afford to do that!image
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  • anablepanablep Posts: 5,160 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Used to do that all the time in college.

    We'd glue coins to tables, desks, steps, etc., sit back & watch...




    Silliness...
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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    Not very good at searching You Tube but I am sure there are videos of people doing this. image
  • OnlyGoldIsMoneyOnlyGoldIsMoney Posts: 3,428 ✭✭✭✭✭
    At the Bloomsburg Fair Grounds (NE Penna) a clad quarter is securely glued to the pavement of a pedestrian walkway. Generations of visitors to the annual fair (including me) have tried to pick it up.
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  • intenceintence Posts: 1,255 ✭
    someone needs to do this and put it on youtube
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  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    California has those "botts dots".

    I have a handful of worthless Morgans that I someday want to epoxy in the place of a few Botts Dots. Right in the middle of the road.


  • christopherking1christopherking1 Posts: 15
    The same bum used to bother us in the streets of Monterey and we got tired of it (sort of like Bogart in Treasure of the Sierra Madre).
    So the next time we went into town, we heated up a quarter with a lighter while wearing a glove and then dropped it into his hand.
  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭
    Some great ideas!!! I will be trying some of these things. image
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  • Billet7Billet7 Posts: 4,923 ✭✭✭
    I did this in Spain with a Cien piece, which was about 60 cents. We lived in an apartment complex in Sol, the center of Madrid on the third floor. We glued it to the pavement directly below our terrace and had a lot of laughs. I might have a twisted sense of humor, but some of the people were hilarious.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,848 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The same bum used to bother us in the streets of Monterey and we got tired of it (sort of like Bogart in Treasure of the Sierra Madre).
    So the next time we went into town, we heated up a quarter with a lighter while wearing a glove and then dropped it into his hand. >>



    Could that be considered assault and battery?image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • christopherking1christopherking1 Posts: 15
    Assualt and Battery? Possibly.....but mainly a bad case of immaturity about 30 years ago.
  • ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I glued 75 cents to the floor right in front of the time clock at a company I once worked for.
    Funny thing, the same people tried day after day to pick them up...
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  • moosemanmooseman Posts: 33
    When I was in college, we have a guy hide under a predstrian walkway with his hands on a $5 bill coming up between the wooden slats,
    when someone walked by and bent down to pick it up, he would quickly slide it back thru the slats. Always worth a few laughs.
  • DeloreanDelorean Posts: 476 ✭✭✭

    (Heat up a nickle in the cig. lighter and toss it out the window at the store parking lot.)

    What the hell is so funny about that? Geeezzz image
    Chuck,

    Ever Onward
  • partagaspartagas Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭
    On the sidewalk near my work someone pressed one into the sidewalk as it was poured. It is all green now and hard to see. But yeah the first time I saw it I tried to pick it up.
    If I say something in the woods, and my wife isn't around. Am I still wrong?
  • slipgateslipgate Posts: 2,301 ✭✭
    It's funnier doing this in a Mall. Especially at the coin fountains! image
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  • bigslurbigslur Posts: 27
    Casman I agree dollar bill on end of lure great fun!
  • calaban7calaban7 Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>When I was in college, we have a guy hide under a predstrian walkway with his hands on a $5 bill coming up between the wooden slats,
    when someone walked by and bent down to pick it up, he would quickly slide it back thru the slats. Always worth a few laughs. >>



    He may have been up to something else as well .image
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  • ArtistArtist Posts: 2,013 ✭✭✭
    The story of the hot quarter & the bum reminds me of another story...

    There was a guy in my town who was known to be quite 'slow.' He made his living collecting cans & bottles from trash cans, and occasionally kids would taunt him by holding out a dime and nickel, and offering to let him keep one but not both. Invariably, he took the nickel, presumably because it was the larger of the two.

    In my college years, I befriended one of the kids that used to partake in this little prank - and I remembered it to him. My friend laughed, and told me that he felt about what he had down himself, so years later he apologized to the guy. To his surprise, the guy told my friend that he knew all along that the dime was worth more than the nickel, but he always took the nickel anyway because he figured that if he ever took the dime, the kids would stop offering him the nickel!

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  • cinman14cinman14 Posts: 2,489 ✭
    No, but I have tried to pick a few up though......image
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Humerus is a very long way from sadistic cruelty.

    Superheated coins are not funny, when they are

    intended for human flesh.
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  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    The best fun to have is around other coin collectors.

    Go to a coin show, armed with superglue and a nice, cheap BU 1909 VDB cent.

    Glue the cent, reverse side up, in a urinal.


  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭


    << <i>California has those "botts dots". >>



    That was actually an answer on Jeopardy once.
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  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭


    << <i>When I was in college, we have a guy hide under a predstrian walkway with his hands on a $5 bill coming up between the wooden slats,
    when someone walked by and bent down to pick it up, he would quickly slide it back thru the slats. Always worth a few laughs. >>



    I'd probably step on it first to secure it before bending down to pick it up, so I guess each of us would wind up with half of it.
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  • ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    I used to throw a quarter in the swimming pool to check the clarity of the water just like the ads used to tell us. Funny thing, when I came back to check again, it was usually gone.
  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    << Has anyone here ever glued a quarter to the sidewalk just to watch people try to pick it up? >>

    No but when I was a kid I stuck a 50 pence piece into a pile of dog poop; lots of people stopped and looked but it took a long time before smoeone reached in and grabbed it
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  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭
    If you ever see someone pull up one of these coins glued to the sidewalk....RUN!!! image
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  • OffMetalOffMetal Posts: 1,684 ✭
    The expressions of those who glued the coins is funnier when you happen to be armed with a chisel and hammer image
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  • joeyukjoeyuk Posts: 3,282
    At the bottom of an escalator could be fun.

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