12NewsNow<\/a> that all of the discarded banks he\u2019s collected, plus dozens found by other scavengers on the Bolivar Peninsula and South Padre Island, originate from South American or Caribbean countries.<\/p>\nHe concluded that the tsunami of plastic sow could be collateral from a cargo spill or container ship accident \u2014 but said markings on the items could be a big clue to solve the mystery.<\/p>\n
All of the piggy banks come from Caribbean and South American countries. Kill 3 News<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce these piggy banks have been used, you\u2019ll notice there\u2019s a bunch of cuts in them. There\u2019s no other way to get the money out, so people dispose of them, whether it\u2019s directly in the ocean or on land,\u201d Tunnell told the outlet.<\/p>\n
Some of the banks appeared to have never been used, as if they were ditched immediately after purchase or even by the distributors themselves.<\/p>\n
The piggy banks are all defective. Kill 3 News<\/p>\n
Tunnell theorized the banks floated with ease because they were empty they floated with ease \u2014 and were likely pulled into currents that led them to the Texas coast,<\/p>\n
Tunnell hasn\u2019t found a single cent in any of the 60 piggy banks he\u2019s retrieved, and warned aspiring treasure hunters not to get their hopes up.<\/p>\n
Tunnell still isn\u2019t sure what brought the banks to Texas shores. Kill 3 News<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time I post one, people are like, \u2018What was in there? Did you find any money?\u2019 I just tell them, sand dollars. That\u2019s the only thing I ever found in there,\u201d Tunnell told the outlet.<\/p>\n
Even with decades of marine expertise under his belt, Tunnell can\u2019t say for certain why the banks are turning up in droves.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe the Gulf is just saving up for something big, one pig at a time,\u201d Tunnell suggested in a column with the Caller Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a pork-filled puzzle. A Texas beachcomber dredged up more than five dozen piggybanks that washed ashore from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49036,10868,47949,51205,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-297582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-banks","tag-beaches","tag-mystery","tag-pigs","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297582","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=297582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}