Parnoia in the U.S. Security establishment is going overboard.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind a U.S. Defense Department false espionage warning earlier this year about mysterious coin-like objects with radio frequency transmitters.
The harmless "poppy coin" was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them.
The worried contractors described the coins as "anomalous" and "filled with something man-made that looked like nanotechnology," according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP.
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rofl....picked up a couple of those at the garage sale.
Are you trying to tell me that someone was tapping into info about our windfall?
HAHHAHAHAHAAAAAA
That did it. I'm throwing all those quarters out.......just in case.
So what do you think they might be spying on with THESE quarters?
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Oh I want one!
Are they still in circulation?
lol
Yup....both are still floating about.
cool!
LOL, I wonder if they have a problem with the toonie? I mean, it does kinda look complicated.
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didn't they have a problem with the toonie when it first came out? I remember reading somewhere that the gold part kept falling out and people called it a Bouchard. Because of the referendum at the time.
get it? I know bad joke.
I remember i heatrd if you froze the twoonie the center piece would come out.