Penny Protesters

[Titanium_Frost]

This guy got fined and charged with a crime for paying a bill in pennies. It was only $25. Imagine if it would have been hundreds! I think this is a great way to protest, I remember an engineer a few years ago that used an equation instead of writing out the amount on a check that he was paying a ridiculous late fee for utilities.

Has anyone here done anyhting similar?

Should this be considered a crime?

Penny offense: Man fined for paying fee in pennies | The Upshot Yahoo! News

 

[Kase]

I think this man is a genius, and it should be a crime to refuse to take the pennies. Pennies are just as much currency as a 100 dollar bill is. If they don't like it, maybe they should just do away with the penny?

 

[littletommy]

Absolutely ridiculous that these A holes would call the cops in the first place, then that the cop would charge the guy. So, pennies no longer have any value?

 

[AJBB87]

I think the disorderly conduct charge has more to do with the way he paid and not with how he paid...

"West didn't believe he owed Basin Clinic money, so decided to settle an outstanding bill by dumping 2,500 pennies onto the counter, an action that disrupted clinic routine and caused coins to spill across the counter and floor."

Read more: Man Pays Medical Bill With 2,500 Pennies, Gets $140 Fine - TIME NewsFeed

Paying with pennies is not a crime because pennies are legal tender.
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[E5RANGER375]

can we find a charge for the cop for being a deuche bag and reaching for some stupid violation to charge the man?

 

[Brandon]

I think the disorderly conduct charge has more to do with the way he paid and not with how he paid...

by dumping 2,500 pennies onto the counter, an action that disrupted clinic routine and caused coins to spill across the counter and floor."

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/06/06...ith-2500-pennies-gets-140-fine/#ixzz1OXSEQXB6

Paying with pennies is not a crime because pennies are legal tender.
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This.

 

[E5RANGER375]

I think the disorderly conduct charge has more to do with the way he paid and not with how he paid...

"West didn't believe he owed Basin Clinic money, so decided to settle an outstanding bill by dumping 2,500 pennies onto the counter, an action that disrupted clinic routine and caused coins to spill across the counter and floor."

Read more: Man Pays Medical Bill With 2,500 Pennies, Gets $140 Fine - TIME NewsFeed

Paying with pennies is not a crime because pennies are legal tender.
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so what? i guess they need bigger counters. "but your honor I had to dig out the pennies I had been saving since I can remember and I think I developed a cramp on the way to the clinic and my hands just gave out at the last moment"

thats why you dont give any statements to the police or ANYONE! get a lawyer. let them spin it for you.

 

[Bunnykid68]

I think I will pay my site supporter membership in pennies this year

 

[E5RANGER375]

I think I will pay my site supporter membership in pennies this year

paying a bill with a box of pennies would be fun with one of those "postage paid" envelopes.

 

[Titanium_Frost]

I think the disorderly conduct charge has more to do with the way he paid and not with how he paid...

"West didn't believe he owed Basin Clinic money, so decided to settle an outstanding bill by dumping 2,500 pennies onto the counter, an action that disrupted clinic routine and caused coins to spill across the counter and floor."

Read more: Man Pays Medical Bill With 2,500 Pennies, Gets $140 Fine - TIME NewsFeed​

Paying with pennies is not a crime because pennies are legal tender.​

Maybe he dropped them? They must be heavy...

I think it would have been more effective if he wasn't a jerk about it and there would be almost no bearing for the Gestapo to charge him with anything. But this is absolutely something that I will use in the future.

 

[Bunnykid68]

Maybe he dropped them? They must be heavy...

I think it would have been more effective if he wasn't a jerk about it and there would be almost no bearing for the Gestapo to charge him with anything. But this is absolutely something that I will use in the future.

about 14 pounds in a small box when rolled

 

[AJBB87]

That's 200 pennies up there. Only 8% of the amount the guy let spill all over the clinic.

IMO there is no reason for that kind of BS. If you want to act like a child then you should be able to handle the consequences.

Pretty interesting to see those who find pleasure in this sort of thing.

 

[E5RANGER375]

That's 200 pennies up there. Only 8% of the amount the guy let spill all over the clinic.

IMO there is no reason for that kind of BS. If you want to act like a child then you should be able to handle the consequences.

Pretty interesting to see those who find pleasure in this sort of thing.

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yes, I find PLEASURE in it. heres 101 for you. its not acting like a child, its called peaceful protest. he paid his obligation even though he didnt agree. being on medicaid and making YOU or I pay for it would have been acting like a child in my opinion.

 

[M67]

Pennies are currency and should be used to purchase whatever. I don't think he did anything wrong. I don't know why him or those students were punished. They're paying in pennies, but at least they're paying.

I was with a friend when he got gas and he had a bag of change with $25 worth of assorted coins. It was somewhat late so the place wasn't busy.

He put the bag on the counter and the cashier just gave him a "really" look, but he started to count it. He got to about $17 and said skrew it, I trust you.

There was $25 worth of change, but then again my friend wasn't the best at math and he was the one that counted everything.

 

[orange]

Don't know how he acted.... Had he handed over a bucket full of pennies, no problem. Had he thrown a bucket full of pennies in somebody's face, problem, that could get pretty heavy. Sounds like he made a scene of it but I'm withholding judgment.

 

[Bond 281]

One of the comments on the link said that on the news he had the pennies neatly rolled up in crates, so it wasn't as though he threw loose change everywhere.

 

[MrSmitty]

I used to live in Jefferson County Kentucky, and we had a thing called the VET... Vehicle Exhaust Testing, I hated and disagreed with it, so I would pay the $8.25 with rolled pennies...my little protest

 

[DragonGunner]

The News said the clinic gave him a receipt....an that the man said he wouldn't pay the fine in pennies......would be nice to know the full story......