CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 For nearly a decade, marine scientist Jace Tunnell has combed the Texas Coastal Bend, finding everything from a prosthetic leg to a 35-foot sailboat. <\/p>\n
But his latest recurring discovery is a new one: dozens of floating piggy banks, sometimes finding up to 14 in a single day.<\/p>\n
While the finds might suggest a lost shipping container, Tunnell says the truth is less dramatic. The banks, mostly manufactured in the Dominican Republic and Guatemala, are simply discarded trash.<\/p>\n
“Once these piggy banks have been used, you’ll notice there’s a bunch of cuts in them. There’s no other way to get the money out,” Tunnell said.<\/p>\n
He also said that because they are lightweight and hollow, they float away during heavy rains, enter river systems, and catch ocean currents that carry them straight to the Texas coast.<\/p>\n
Tunnell encourages beachgoers to properly dispose of the banks or take them home as souvenirs. Just don’t expect to find a fortune inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 For nearly a decade, marine scientist Jace Tunnell has combed the Texas Coastal Bend,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-296410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}