Ever Wonder what happens to Loose Change?

[Homer]

http://www.sanduskyregister.com/articles/2006/12/19/local_news/106556.txt

 

SANDUSKY, Ohio -- Anyone who has been on Cedar Point's roller coasters knows they can produce a lot of loose change.

 

But what happens to that money?

 

Cedar Point employees collect and turn in the loose change found underneath the rides, on the midway or in the park's fountains to the loose change fund.

 

The amusement park said that this year employees collected about $7,500 and will donate it to a soup kitchen in Sandusky.

 

The park has donated more than $170,000 from the loose change fund to charity since 1988.

Interesting, nonetheless. Glad parks like Cedar Point do this to benefit their communities.

[Wes]

Where's Joey?

[robbalvey]

Out picking up loose change.

[snuggles]

Wow, 7500$!

[thomas2]

I bet there's alot more under S-TE. Everyone seems to throw money there

[Golfie]

Would I be considered a "Soup Kitchen"?

 

I can make some pretty good chicken broth!

[kidcoaster]

That is good they do that.

 

This one time My freind was Running the Roll-O-Plane at CLP and did not find loose change but a bag of crack.

[the sound]

Hey, this sort of reminds me of a Kit Kat add were a guy is at a carnival catching coins in a bucket, except its being donated to charity.

 

Good on ya Cedar Fair!

[Wes]

This one time My freind was Running the Roll-O-Plane at CLP and did not find loose change but a bag of crack.

 

I bet the people who go to a soup kitchen would be much happier with that!

[DATman]

Disney donates theirs to the Make A Wish foundation, right?

 

I'm glad that the parks tend to give away this money rather than keep it (Although I doubt SF parks do, what with Shapiro running them and all).

[DenDen]

Kennywood donates their's to Project:Bundle-up, a local coats for kids charity. At least, they did when I worked there.

[arrowfanman]

^ I once found a plaque hidden behind some bushes at SFMM, announcing that they in fact do donate the change, but I forget where.

 

Hi Joey!

 

-Jahan

[Scaparri]

Yeah, when I worked on Millennium Force, we used to try and keep a couple of coins on one of the supports that's really close to the queue, because the guests would see it and try to throw there change on to this support. It was amazing how much money was there at the end of each night.

[TheArchfiend]

I actually saw a special about Disney World, on the Disney channel some years ago; and they said how they drain all the parks fountains and collect the change every couple of months and each year they donate it to chairity. The amount was upwards of $100,000 per year. Thats crazy for just spare pennies and nickels for the most part. From what I hear, all shopping malls do the same thing, though I'm sure some places keep the money for their own use.

 

Imagine how rich you'd be if you had a garbage dump of just used couches.

[All Clear]

At Six Flags, they call this a "maintenance budget."

[Moose]

To me it always mad ethemost sense to give the change from fountains to make a wish, because isn't that the reason most people throw coins in a fountain?

[Twister II]

When I read this, I automatically thought about Expedition Everest, and the thing in its queue.

 

There isn't any change there, but a few weeks ago it was covered in coins.

 

-Taylor "Made it in the cup with a penny!" Radford

[Android]

Yeah i thought of that aswell. When i was in line people were pullin out their quarters to get them in the cup. One guy got it in 7 times in a row!

 

---Android---

[Primogen18]

I have a friend who (yeah hes kind of rich...) has 2 fountains, one near his house in the middle of the circle driveway, and one at the end of the driveway near the road/sidewalk, and he lives in a pretty well off community. The first year they had them they were suprised to find a decent chunk of change in the one near the road, and even a few in the other one. Needless to say they dont need it, but they donated it somewhere, and put a little sign thing saying they do so. They just never expected anyone to throw coins in their fountains lol.

[CP_RULES]

At WOF in the Patriot queue there was a bunch of gum wads stuck on a wall, and each one had a coin stuck on it. I wonder if parks try to keep that change, or just toss it along with the gum.

[rbpia]

At Six Flags, they call this a "maintenance budget."

 

After they pay Shapiro's bonus. That leaves about $2.37 for maintenance.

 

rbpia

[TheArchfiend]

At Six Flags, they call this a "maintenance budget."

 

After they pay Shapiro's bonus. That leaves about $2.37 for maintenance.

 

rbpia

 

Sweet! A couple of more years and we got a new screwdriver for the park. Flat-head, not Phillips.

[haux]

I worked as a sweep at Cedar Point for three summers. We'd pick up change and hand it in to our crew leader at the end of our shift. I counted all the change I found every day, and I added it up at the end of the season. I found about $56 in coins in just under three months.

 

I gave it all to my supervisors, who had a few tubs they collected all the crews' change in.