Early Christmas for NJ commuters! It was raining ? on Route 3!! @njdotcom @ABC7NY @News12NJ #commute pic.twitter.com/oNC7bs3fZz
— Sabrina Quagliozzi (@squagliozzi) December 13, 2018
Thursday morning might mark the first time a New Jersey commuter preferred to be in a “cash lane.”
The East Rutherford Police Department said an armored truck spilled cash along the westbound lanes of Route 3 at about 8:30 a.m. — right during the peak of the morning rush hour.
The incident took place near Metlife Stadium, right outside of New York City.
In videos posted to social media, motorists can be seen leaving their cars as they scramble to grab the cash from travel lanes.
“$5, 20, everything,” someone could be heard saying in a video posted by Sabrina Quagliozzi. “Look at the accidents. Wow.”
Police said “multiple” crashes were reported in the area due to people attempting to grab the cash. Travel also screeched to a halt as people got out of their cars.
Betsy Richards, a Montclair resident, was on a NJ Transit bus into New York City, and told NorthJersey.com she saw a man in a Brinks uniform was also running through traffic trying to collect the money.
“People were saying, ‘he’s definitely going to get fired,'” she told the news outlet. “It’s Christmas for some and the loss of a job for another.”
The incident remains under investigation, according to police. Anyone with information or videos of the incident is asked to contact authorities at 201-438-0165
The money was on the way to the New York Jets.
They were going to attempt to buy a win this weekend.
Reminds me of the real obituary printed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer written by the deceased’s son. He said when his old man was dying, he called the Cleveland Browns front office and asked that six of their players be his pall bearers so they could let him down one last time.
The guy’s got a company logo on his shoulder. Smart.
St. Peter: Name?
Applicant: ‘Tayshaun.’
St. Pete: “Last place on Earth?”
Tay: “Jersey.”
Pete: “How did you die?”
Tay: “I was just workin’ my route. Got on the freeway, when one of dem bags fell out da backada rig.
Now, Brink woulda canned my ass for losin’ all them notes, k? So I park da truck, an jump out to pick it all up, but da shit was blowing Evy which a way. Now cars be flyin by, but I’m cool with that, cuz I can stick & move. You see what I’m sayin’?
But den some lanky cracker in a Benz drive by, and hollered at me out his winda. Called me a stupid Din Doo. I tried to chase him down to lay an ass whippin on ‘im, but there’s a few more hundys go blowin by, an I got ta git em. I ben down to grab jus one more, & BAM! Some other crazy muthaf…jus kilt me dead!
So here I is.”
I live in the people’s republic of nj. Someday I hope to move to America.
So, you’re “stuck” in New Jersey?
Me, too. I feel your pain and wish I lived elsewhere.
I have a recurrent, waking nightmare of being out of ammo before running out of stupid people should the lights go out here.
So let’s say all the paper notes were accounted for by sequential serial number.
NJ 101.5FM had this story on the radio and stated any money not turned in would put the holder in legal jeopardy. Frankly, I’d hate to be the truck driver and/or guard(s) involved in the loss. They’ll be facing job loss for not securing the cash and vehicle. The last thing I want to be doing is driving in Parkway traffic, let alone PLAYING in it while trying to snatch government scrip in full view of witnesses.
That said, would I turn in thousands of lost dollars or coins left unclaimed from a forgotten stash? That depends on the circumstances. Buried treasure? Mob money?
Either way, governments will want their cut and you take your chances with what you didn’t earn either way.