leroydb 0 #1 December 5, 2004 Utah Man Pays $82 Fine in Pennies SALT LAKE CITY (Dec. 2) - A Manti man has a penny for Sanpete County's thoughts. About 8,200 of them, actually. Grant Petersen withdrew that many copper coins from his bank and delivered them in a bucket to pay an $82 fine he got for driving with a burnt-out headlight. Court officials are apparently not amused, and have asked Petersen to come back in and offer a more "acceptable" form of payment. They say state policy allows clerks to reject unusual forms of payment, and it's going to waste county resources for someone to count all that change. Petersen says he doesn't plan on honoring that request. He says money is money, and U.S. law provides that coins are legal tender.Leroy ..I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dumpster 0 #2 December 5, 2004 I love it! Absolutely brilliant! Easy Does It Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
akarunway 1 #3 December 5, 2004 Wasn't a relative of Larry Flynt was it? I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpinfarmer 0 #4 December 6, 2004 I know a guy who pays his county land tax in $1's and $5's every year. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Unstable 9 #5 December 6, 2004 Absolutly brilliant - For a burned out headlight, of all things!! It would seem to me that since coins are legal tender for all debts public & private, they need to accept this form of payment....=========Shaun ========== Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #6 December 6, 2004 One Saturday evening, I was out on the town with a bunch of friends in another state, and while looking for a parking space, find some available on the side of the road with meters. There were none available on the side I'm driving on so I cross over and park on the other side. Since it's a weekend night, the meters do not have to be fed. So, we have a good time and when we get back, I find a goddamned ticket on my window! WTF?!? Parked the wrong direction?? FUCK?!? The fine was $10. When I got back home, I looked at the ticket more closely. It said money order or cashier's check only. I said fuck it, I put an Alexander Hamilton bill in the envelope and sent it, with no return address, and a little note saying "here's a Hamilton, eat shit". Billy"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marz 0 #7 December 6, 2004 There was a protest against tuition fee hikes at my university a few years back and a bunch of students (about 200 of them) came in to pay their tuition in one-dollar coins (I live in Canada). It made the news and the registrar was not amused. They took the money though. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #8 December 6, 2004 So, in other words, get pissed off at the courts and the system, and take it out on the evil minimum wage clerks... I don't like this method of protest. When I get mad at a person, I do not kick his dog. When I am upset with an opposing attorney I do not try to rile his secretary. Nice way of taking out your frustrations on someone else. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freethefly 6 #9 December 6, 2004 The minimum wage clerks are part of the system - SCREW THEM. I had to pay some punk $700.00 for kicking the driverside window in on his truck after he pointed a gun at me. The court also gave me 5 years probation for assualt and battery ( after kicking in the window I pulled him out and whipped his ass, I have since became a more peaceful person). When the judge ordered me to pay the punk, the guy thought he would get all $700. at once. I sent $1.00 on some months, other months $10.00. One time I sent a check for 50 cents. I could had just sent the full amount and been done with it, but why give someone $700.00. That would had been a windfall for him. Sending next to nothing each month assured me that he did not benefit and over 5 years of sending the minimum I hardly noticed it."...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyangel2 2 #10 December 6, 2004 Quote Court officials are apparently not amused, and have asked Petersen to come back in and offer a more "acceptable" form of payment. They say state policy allows clerks to reject unusual forms of payment, and it's going to waste county resources for someone to count all that change. What, they don't have a machine that will count and roll coins? If they don't, they can go to the bank and the bank will do it for them.May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #11 December 6, 2004 Quote The minimum wage clerks are part of the system - SCREW THEM. I had to pay some punk $700.00 for kicking the driverside window in on his truck after he pointed a gun at me. The court also gave me 5 years probation for assualt and battery ( after kicking in the window I pulled him out and whipped his ass, I have since became a more peaceful person). When the judge ordered me to pay the punk, the guy thought he would get all $700. at once. I sent $1.00 on some months, other months $10.00. One time I sent a check for 50 cents. I could had just sent the full amount and been done with it, but why give someone $700.00. That would had been a windfall for him. Sending next to nothing each month assured me that he did not benefit and over 5 years of sending the minimum I hardly noticed it. Good man!! After all, the punk pointed a GUN at you! By the way, how did you know it wasn't loaded or if he wasn't going to shoot you? It takes major guts to just go and kick the window out on a gun-wielding car owner! Edited to add: Case in point, in central Alabama a few years ago, a well-to-do woman was imprisoned for shooting another woman point-blank in the face after she approached the shooter's window after a road rage incident... She cried self defense because she was afraid (she was the one chasing the dead woman), but the courts was not taking it. She rolled her window down just to shoot the other woman..."Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freethefly 6 #12 December 6, 2004 I was drunk and coked up at the time. Use to ride in a motorcycle organization and was known for being somewhat mean and crazy and violent. I did change completely after learning that I had contracted AIDS and then I started skydiving. My life is now peaceful and beautiful."...And once you're gone, you can't come back When you're out of the blue and into the black." Neil Young Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #13 December 6, 2004 Quote I was drunk and coked up at the time. Use to ride in a motorcycle organization and was known for being somewhat mean and crazy and violent. I did change completely after learning that I had contracted AIDS and then I started skydiving. My life is now peaceful and beautiful. Glad you turned around... Yeah, a guy being drunk and coked up, and generally being a mean bad-ass will lead him to do stupid crazy things and just as easily get himself killed too... whew!!"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
