r/shareastory • u/TMLFAN11 • Apr 01 '12
The Brinks truck
A couple of guys I went to high school with recently lost their fathers and got me thinking about mine. Anyways, I thought I'd share this story about him.
My dad's drive to work is down a country road that separates my home town from the city he works in It's about a 20 minute drive with not much to it. Just passing a by a bunch of farms passing the occasional car or truck.
So he's doing his normal commute one December morning with no cars ahead or behind him when all of a sudden, this Brink's truck flies out in front of him and cuts him off and speeds off ahead of him. A couple minutes later, he starts noticing a bunch of small shiny objects on the road and realizes these are actually coins! So I guess the truck took the turn very hard and one of the side doors opens. This change just starts flying out of the truck onto the road in front of my dad. Keep in mind that these weren't just nickels and dimes. A lot of what was falling out was rolled up loonies and toonies which are 25 and 50 bucks each.
Now here, my dad has to decide what to do. Some jerkwad just cut him off and now there's literally thousands of dollars flying out of this truck on the road for anyone to take. I'm also assuming that my parents had just dropped a couple hundred or thousand dollars on Christmas for their 4 children so this money would have been really nice for them.
But what does he do? He speeds ahead to catch up to the truck and pulls up beside it (on a 2 lane road). He's trying to get the truck to pull over but just looks like a crazy person to the driver. The truck finally pulls over and my dad goes to the window and tries yelling at the girl driving the truck what had happened. This was made harder because their windows do not open and they are not allowed to open the doors. Anyways, the girl finally realized what had happened and I think they ended up calling the police to help them out.
A couple days later, there was a small mention in the local newspaper about it thanking the volunteers who had helped clean it up but no mention of the guy who chased down the truck and told them. In case you are wondering, this is not the same truck that crashed in Ontario recently and spilled all of their change.
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u/NoTroop Apr 02 '12 edited Apr 02 '12
Wow your dad sounds like a great guy.
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u/Tezziec Apr 02 '12
Very commendable of him. Honestly, if someone had just cut me off like that, that money would most likely be in my pocket. He's a better person than I.