Disgruntled Texas Man Pays Speeding Ticket With 22,000 Pennies

[c.d.]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/disgruntled-texas-man-pays-speeding-ticket-with-22000-pennies/ar-BBtEbts?li=BBnbfcL

c.d.

[Damaso Marte]

I tried doing something like this a few years ago in a different US state, only to find out that there was actually a law prohibiting me from using coins to pay the fine.

[GUT]

Most countries have a limit on the number of coins you are legally obligated to accept.

[Mayerling]

Most countries have a limit on the number of coins you are legally obligated to accept.

This reminded me of A. P. Herbert's comic stories about "The Uncommon Law", where Mr. Albert Haddock, disgusted at being badgered over a debt, fills out a proper check for the amount that he signs - on the side of a cow!
The issue is whether or not the creditor has to accept the check.

Jeff

[johns]

My late brother told me he once paid his council tax with a bucket full of coins. I believed him too knowing what he was like.

[Geddy2112]

Unfortunately legal tender denotes here in the UK he would have only been allowed to use 20 pennies

1p - for any amount not exceeding 20p

[Abby Normal]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbea...bts?li=BBnbfcL

c.d.

Lol. Automated cameras for moving violations have gotten out of control here where I live in md. A friend of mine received a fine/violation in the mail that includes a photograph of his car apparently running a red light.

He sent in a photograph of the filled out check.

[Robert]

This reminded me of A. P. Herbert's comic stories about "The Uncommon Law", where Mr. Albert Haddock, disgusted at being badgered over a debt, fills out a proper check for the amount that he signs - on the side of a cow!
The issue is whether or not the creditor has to accept the check.

This happened once with a kangaroo, and the check bounced.

[Mayerling]

This reminded me of A. P. Herbert's comic stories about "The Uncommon Law", where Mr. Albert Haddock, disgusted at being badgered over a debt, fills out a proper check for the amount that he signs - on the side of a cow!
The issue is whether or not the creditor has to accept the check.

This happened once with a kangaroo, and the check bounced.

But if the check had been honored, the amount could have been put into a convenient pouch.

[Robert]

Indeed Jeff. But as things stood, the man whose check bounced was tried by a kangaroo court.

[c.d.]

Lol. Automated cameras for moving violations have gotten out of control here where I live in md. A friend of mine received a fine/violation in the mail that includes a photograph of his car apparently running a red light.

He sent in a photograph of the filled out check.

Hello Abby,

I have heard similar stories of people sending in a picture of a check and the police sending back photos of handcuffs and a jail cell.

c.d.

[Abby Normal]

Hello Abby,

I have heard similar stories of people sending in a picture of a check and the police sending back photos of handcuffs and a jail cell.

c.d.

Yeah. I've heard those stories too. But all my friend got back was a late notice fee. Lol. He eventually paid it.

We keep saying we're going to go to court on one of these and bring a copy of the constitution and point out to the judge that we have the right to face our accuser. But who has the time? In the old days it had to be the cop that wrote you the ticket, and half the time if you went to court, the cop wasn't there and the judge had no choice but to throw it out.

[Mayerling]

It just occurred to me, what if one of the 22,000 pennies turned out to really be a rare one (such as the 1955 - S in the old Lincoln/ "Wheaties" series of pennies before the back was changed to the Lincoln Memorial in 1958). Obviously that penny would definitely be an unfair enrichment of the government's rights of collection on a debt, but I doubt if it would be returned.

Jeff