Posted on 05/29/2016 2:00:48 PM PDT by DFG
A Texas man who got busted driving nine miles per hour over the speed limit paid his fine entirely in pennies - as an act of protest against what he thought was 'extortion'. Brett Sanders, of Frisco, took his case to trial after going at 39 mph instead of 30 in his neighborhood. But he lost and a jury decided he should pay a $212 fine. Sanders, a full-time IT professional and a first and second amendment activist, gathered thousands of pennies to honor his debt.
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This happens about once a year or so. I think it’s Kali that’ll refuse to accept payment in this manner.
Yawn...pointless stupid way to protest. Happens several times a year somewhere.
This punishes the wrong party. The person at the DMV window or seen at Traffic Court is not directly at fault. If you come stomping in with your two metal buckets of pennies, all you end up doing is holding the line up and making people angry. Most DMV’s I have visited will make YOU count it out yourself. Got three hours free with nothing better to do?
Then go for it!
Surprised he didn’t get cited fir littering.
Very annoying but some people simply cannot admit there were wrong, ever.
This guy was speeding, got caught and now he wants to make a Federal case out of it. Please pay your fine like everyone else, if you don’t like the law, vote to change it.
“Coin of the Realm.”
“Legal tender for all debts, public and private” is it not?
Absolutely, positively correct. A 30 mile-an-hour speed LIMIT is usually for residential. . .which means kids running out into the street. This guy going nearly 40 would not have time to stop and could have killed somebody's kid.
Was it all in lose pennies?
They don't have to be accepted.
ML/NJ
My guess is that he was a jerk to the cop.
This happened in our court. It was mailed in a box and weighted 80 pounds. I was asked to take them to the bank and cash them. I said nothin doin, and they can ask the judge about it since I refused to take the coins anywhere. He said mail the coins back COD postage, and set him a date in court for review of fines and costs.
Some, maybe most, places don’t have to accept it.
Or do you think we can pull the same defense the Hitlery is using now on the e-mail scandal? I did not know there was such a law so what are you bugging me for?
Coinstar would count then in a few minutes.
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If I was the civil “servant” collecting the fine physically, I’d order him to count it out to me.
If I was the civil “servant” collecting the fine physically, I’d order him to count it out to me.
I'm sure he was able to just walk right though the metal detectors without being required to pour them into another container for inspection.
Let him drag his 141 lbs of coins home with him. ML/NJ
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