Balls. In England coins are legal tender. In Scotland it gets even better. Notes are not legal tender; they don't have to take notes, but must take coins.

No one gives a shit about england

#45 that comment say's more about you than england.

In Canada if it is more than 25 cents you can't pay in pennies

Admittedly, he was being a pain in the ass on purpose. I doubt the parking authority officer that wrote the ticket (which he deserved for parking stupidly) would've been handling the payment, I guess his revenge was meant for the "system" and WTF does anyone do with $35 in pennies? This was a foolish, immature thing to do. When you cooperate and are honest with police, you have the best outcome. I think there's more to this story, but way to waste a whole bunch of time OP.

You aren't legally required to accept money. If they don't want to take it in the form of a ridiculous number of pennies, they don't have to. OP would thus be required to tender a different form of payment. Furthermore, as has been mentioned elsewhere, when the matter escalates to police involvement, it is only the offenders themselves who would say that it was just because of how they chose to pay. Belligerence, threats, violence, etc. are what caused other incidents of this to escalate. But of course, the offender would never realize they did anything to cause it to escalate. Just as they thought they didn't do anything to get them fined in the first place and thus deserved "revenge". It is ALWAYS someone else's fault to this type of thinker.

Actually, since this is a payment to the government (i.e. a government-instituted fine), they can't just 'refuse' legal tender. 31 U.S.C. § 5103 states that that US coins are "legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."

No. The government ****** him first. So he tried to **** them back. But it turns out he had brought a knife to a gun fight. So they shot him in the hand do he'd drop the knife… they then picked it up and stabbed him in the face with his own knife!

wow...

Refusing legal tender is NOT illegal. If I opened up a shop and wanted people only to pay me in $1 bills I could. It would be smart, if I opened such a shop, for me to put up a sign saying "only accepting $1 bills" but I wouldn't have to.

You are absolutly correct, YOU as a private business can refuse bills in large denominations. The government however must accept all forms of legal tender in the United States. A few years back a man payed his taxes in pennies. The IRS refused to take his pennies and charged the man with late fees. Later this man filed a civil case against the IRS for not taking his payment in pennies and the courts ruled that it is legal to pay the government with any legal bill or coin.

To go a little further, if the government refuses the pennies the debt is considered paid. I would fight it

134 go to law school then come back to this conversation(:

There must be something about wasting federal time on purpose

What? Pshaw, impossible. There's no way the OP did anything wrong. Just like he was entitled to seek revenge for being wronged by being issued a ticket, which of course he must have also done nothing to earn. Nobody ever does anything wrong - if you ask them, anyway.

That might be the part where the op refuses to pay in anything other than pennies & puts up a fuss, which in turn disturbs peace.

Has anyone told you the difference between your and you're?

And that "dumbass" is one word. That commenter is such a dumbass