Austrian collects 10 million beer bottle caps

[jeff of pa]

I wonder what
10 million can tabs weigh.


VIENNA (AP) — It takes a lot of beers to collect 10 million bottle caps. But Austria's Hans Heiland didn't drink them alone.

Heiland says that most of them have come from others, many of them by mail, after his passion for collecting beer bottle caps become known.
Heiland, from the town of Ybbs, west of Vienna, started his hobby five years ago.
State broadcaster ORF said Thursday that his collection now weighs 18 tons.
Heiland recently sold the caps to a metal collector for 1,500 euros ($1,700) and says he will deliver all three truckfulls to the new owner Friday.

He says he plans to give the money to a needy family in the region.

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[kcm]

I started to say, there's no way he dug even a million tabs by himself. One would have to dig for 40 years, 365 days a year more than 68 tabs in order to hit 1,000,000. That's a lot of tabs! ...I hope he AT LEAST gave his mail carrier nice Christmas cards!

 

[austin]

I love what he's doing with the money, but jeez, there has got to be a better hobby. Like collecting pennies for example.