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Man Hold Up! St. Pat’s Day is big business! It turns out we spend plenty of green to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.  Jill Gonzalez with WalletHub says over four and a-half billion dollars will be spent during the holiday period and that means partiers will shell out on average about 36 and a-half dollars.  She says over half of Americans plan to celebrate the holiday and of those, over 82-percent plan to wear green.  And say you actually found the leprechaun’s pot of gold filled with one-thousand, one-ounce gold coins.  Its market value would be over one and a-quarter million dollars.  

Unfortunately, there are more serious numbers to report.  A fatal car crash happens every 46 minutes on St. Patrick’s Day.  And 75-percent of fatal car crashes on the holiday involve a driver who is two times over the legal drinking limit. 

 

 

 

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03-17-2015 00:14:07