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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If they refuse to accept payment then your debt is clear.
Ah, so you're asserting that coins minted by the treasury are optionally acceptable for paying off debts? How then are the federal reserve, a private entity, issued notes of greater legitimacy?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-man-fights-charge-warning-drivers-speed-trap/story?id=21559309
Frisco Texas is a notorious speed trap.
Uhhhhhh, go the speed limit. If it says 30, go 30.
“...This guy going nearly 40 would not have time to stop and could have killed somebody’s kid.”
Depends upon what he was driving.
It’s physics.
A sh*thole town next to me has a sign on the door saying they won’t accept any coins when paying a parking or speeding ticket. Best you could do would pay in $1 bills, the ratty-ist you can find.
Around here, Coinstar charges a fee.
I hope he sifted out the pre-82s.
If one is a customer at many/most banks, they will auto count coins for deposit and charge nothing. What’s this nothing doing. Sometimes you don’t have to scorch earth.
Maybe you should pay your car license fees with pennies and find out if you’re correct. The “Pennies are money” argument usually loses, especially in government offices.
Most would take a fistful of Susan B. Anthony dollars, though. Anyhow if it isn’t in the code, it would be a technical loser, though the cost to prosecute it might be way more than the fine.
That teach that clerk a lesson! They should not passed that law or written him a ticket!
What he should have done is declare that speed limits using the logic of racist or sexist oppression that speed limits oppress him. If this country can't regulate bathroom use based on something as clearly distinct categories as sex, then no objective law should be beyond reach of lunacy.
If the left wants to tear apart the common culture then turn the war around and tear apart all the laws that support them. The first is to find that taxation is prejudicial as it punishes the worker and rewards the grafter. Cut the left's source of funds.
Banks won’t accept pennies unless they’re wrapped.
1 penny...2 pennies...there $212.00 even. Prove me wrong. LOL.
I understand your point but someone will still have to count it again regardless. Much time wasted however you cut it.
That would be an interesting tact to take against the Federal Reserve.
The messenger does not have more authority than the one who sends him, and therefore the one to whom a job is delegate cannot be greater than the one who delegated that job in the first place — therefore, refusing to accept coinage minted by the Treasury and yet accepting Federal Reserve notes presents a contradiction: for the government (the Treasury) has both the responsibility and right to coin monies, but the printing of "federal reserve notes" is a delegated position from the government.
So, which is the greater authority: the Treasury, or the Federal Reserve?
And if you claim the Federal Reserve, then from whence comes its authority?
21200 pennies weigh 145.4 pounds if pre 1982 mintage, and 116.8 pounds if they are late model copper clad zinc alloy vintage.
Copper prices of 146 pennys a pound makes our older smallest currency monetarily not worth it’s weight in material.
Mail them to him COD? And if he fails to pay after a certain period of time the post office is required to return them to the sender.
Theoretically interesting, but I’d bet court clerks aren’t interested in Constitutional arguments. And pissing off petty bureaucrats isn’t a good idea anyway.
My bank does, but there are a lot of poor people here. I roll mine at home just so I know how much I have.
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