Andreas Flaten’s former employer dumped more than 90,000 pennies — equivalent to about $1180 in Australia — on his driveway on March 12 as a form of final payment for his work at an auto shop, he said.
His door bell camera had recorded a young man saying “Hey, your money is at the end of the driveway, bud,” theThe oil stain left by the coins on the driveway of Andreas Flaten.The next day, his girlfriend, Olivia Oxley, posted a video of the pennies on Instagram, where he attracted the attention of sympathisers and of Washington-based Coinstar, which operates coin-converting machines and kiosks.
“Coinstar has been in the coin business for 30 years and we process approximately 41 billion coins annually – so picking up 91,000 pennies was all in a day’s work,” Coinstar CEO Jim Gaherity said in a statement.Flaten said his former employer — A OK Walker Autoworks in Peachtree City, Georgia — owed him $US915 after he left his job there in November over a dispute involving a promise of flexible work hours to allow him to pick up his child from childcare.
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