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Concerning a recent heist by a public official in the town of ridgewood, new jersey. thomas rico was the public works inspector in ridgewood. he pled guilty last week to four counts of third-degree theft, admitting that he stole at least $460,000 from the town. specifically, though, and this is the geek part of it, he stole those $460,000 from the town in quarters. over the course of 25 months he stole quarters from ridgewood's meter collection room. meter as in parking meter. he stole almost half a million dollars in people's parking money. which, okay, is sad and corrupt and pitiful. but "b,...

But b, is also kind of amazing. i mean, physically, how did he do this? first of all, $460,000 -- $460,600 equals a little over 1.8 million quarters. the 1.8 million quarters in total are said to have been pilfered over a period of 25 months. if we assume conservatively that mr. rica took two weeks' vacation and he worked a five-day week that would mean there were approximately 520 workdays in his stealing zone and that would mean on average mr. rico would have walked off with 3,543 quarters every day he was at work. 3,500 quarters a day. how -- what does that look like? well, if you poured th...