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TX man pays his $212 speeding ticket with 2 buckets full of COINS in protest
UK Daily Mail ^ | 05/29/2016 | CLEMENCE MICHALLON

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: frisco; sanders; speeding; texas
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1 posted on 05/29/2016 2:00:48 PM PDT by DFG
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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.


2 posted on 05/29/2016 2:02:46 PM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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Yawn...pointless stupid way to protest. Happens several times a year somewhere.


3 posted on 05/29/2016 2:04:36 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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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!


4 posted on 05/29/2016 2:06:05 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: DFG

Surprised he didn’t get cited fir littering.


5 posted on 05/29/2016 2:08:55 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: DFG

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.


6 posted on 05/29/2016 2:10:40 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: DFG

“Coin of the Realm.”

“Legal tender for all debts, public and private” is it not?


7 posted on 05/29/2016 2:16:36 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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if you don’t like the law, vote to change it.

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.

8 posted on 05/29/2016 2:19:11 PM PDT by McBuff
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To: DFG

Was it all in lose pennies?


9 posted on 05/29/2016 2:25:03 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: DFG
Pennies aren't legal tender for all but insignificant debts.

They don't have to be accepted.

ML/NJ

10 posted on 05/29/2016 2:26:28 PM PDT by ml/nj
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My guess is that he was a jerk to the cop.


11 posted on 05/29/2016 2:30:05 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
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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.


12 posted on 05/29/2016 2:32:40 PM PDT by healy61
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To: DFG

Some, maybe most, places don’t have to accept it.


13 posted on 05/29/2016 2:33:15 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Kenny500c
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.

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?

14 posted on 05/29/2016 2:40:05 PM PDT by ProudFossil (" I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry Truman)
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Coinstar would count then in a few minutes.

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15 posted on 05/29/2016 2:45:41 PM PDT by Mears
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The maximum mailable package weight is 70 pounds. To mail 70 lbs locally in a small package would cost $161.35.
16 posted on 05/29/2016 2:54:31 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Jus Soli + Jus Sanguinis = NBC)
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If I was the civil “servant” collecting the fine physically, I’d order him to count it out to me.


17 posted on 05/29/2016 2:57:55 PM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: DFG

If I was the civil “servant” collecting the fine physically, I’d order him to count it out to me.


18 posted on 05/29/2016 2:59:01 PM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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21,200 pennies would weigh @ 117 pounds. How many trips back and forth to his car/truck/bike did he need to carry them into the court?

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.

19 posted on 05/29/2016 3:00:54 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Jus Soli + Jus Sanguinis = NBC)
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To: Mears
Nice. But no one has to accept them.

Let him drag his 141 lbs of coins home with him. ML/NJ

20 posted on 05/29/2016 3:01:53 PM PDT by ml/nj
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