Talk about liquid assets!
This New Yorker got all wet for chump change. The water fountain in front of City Hall was one man’s personal change purse as he went head over heels to mine it for nickels, dimes and quarters. Believe it or not, jumping into a public fountain to troll for coins isn’t a crime, cops said yesterday. “Unless there are other varying factors, like public drunkenness, then no [it’s not a crime],” a police source said. How about public foolishness? “I’ve never seen it happen. I find it really odd,” Gene Nervina, 73, said yesterday, inspecting his company’s plumbing work on the fountain. The overwhelming majority of the coins in the fountain were pennies. There were only a few nickels, dimes and quarters in there yesterday.