By Not_you17 - 09/09/2011 04:04 - United States

Today, I needed to pay off a $35 parking ticket. To try and get some sort of revenge, I went to the bank and got 3,500 pennies, dumped them into a bucket, and refused to pay with anything besides the pennies. They called the police. I was arrested and cited $147. FML
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Ok so here is an update, they canceled my $147 fine because I was using 100% legal us tender. However in order to pay off the $35 in pennies they had to either be rolled by the bank or I had to count them 1 by 1, so I rolled 'em.

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Zaffro 8

What on earth for? What did they cite you with? There's no violation of any law civil or criminal there...

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airforce987 20

A bucket full of pennies is a perfectly legitimate way to pay. They are legal tender. An idiotic way to pay would be like with sticks of gum.

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Partyman22 0

Good idea, props for doingit...but you are still an idiot haha

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puppetmaster715 0

Why couldn't you just pay the damn 35 bucks? Instead of paying in pennies you could've went to a coin star and bam! No trouble -_-

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yusheng029 3

You should've paid in nickles. Then they wouldn't have arrested you.

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leadman1989 15

I have a ticket, I'm gonna try this and report back. :D

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chrisdromgoole 7

This was in the news months ago, think someone is fibbing :/

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Clarice1 9

The only person you'd be screwing over by paying in pennies is the cashier, who had nothing to do with your parking ticket. Stupid.

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betska 1

Who's the dumb ass that didn't park right in the first place?

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zyxwv88 1

In the United States there isn't a limit to the number of pennies you can pay with. In fact, I think that it is a legal requirement that places accept money (even though some places try not to). Other countries like Canada have a limit of 25 cents or something.

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