12,000 penny speeding ticket - TranceAddict Forums

TranceAddict Forums (www.tranceaddict.com/forums)
- Chill Out Room
-- 12,000 penny speeding ticket

Posted by djkoolaide on Aug-05-2005 03:32:

12,000 penny speeding ticket

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050803...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

whaha this is awesome

Posted by {b.s.e.} on Aug-05-2005 03:36:

he still got double pwned.

Posted by apostrophe on Aug-05-2005 03:37:

The courts have to accept the form of payment though - it is legal currency, right?

Posted by Danny Ocean on Aug-05-2005 03:40:

they did accept it...i think he thought he was going to pwn them by making them count it one by one...
but they used a machine and made him wait...so he got double pwned...and they even gave him some pennies back..so triple pwnd because hes a dumbass who cant count.

Posted by apostrophe on Aug-05-2005 03:46:

Hehh...good job guy.

Well, at least he got rid of a few pennies?

Posted by charon on Aug-05-2005 04:40:

What a loser. What a waste of time and resources.

Posted by CleverName on Aug-05-2005 04:48:

If I were the court, I would have taken it somewhere with a public change counter that takes a percentage. Come back and give him another ticket for attempting to shortchange the state

Posted by Flyboy217 on Aug-05-2005 04:59:

quote:
Originally posted by apostrophe
The courts have to accept the form of payment though - it is legal currency, right?

Nope:

quote:

Question: I thought that United States currency was legal tender for all debts. Some businesses or governmental agencies say that they will only accept checks, money orders or credit cards as payment, and others will only accept currency notes in denominations of $20 or smaller. Isn't this illegal?

Answer: The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," which states: "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."

This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.

http://www.treas.gov/education/faq/...al-tender.shtml

Dunno about the state law in whatever state that was, or about the laws for govt. orgs though.

Posted by MeLLyMeL on Aug-05-2005 05:29:

quote:
Originally posted by Danny Ocean
and they even gave him some pennies back..so triple pwnd because hes a dumbass who cant count.

haha.. that was the best part of the story.

Posted by Saka on Aug-05-2005 08:45:

quote:
Question: I thought that United States currency was legal tender for all debts. Some businesses or governmental agencies say that they will only accept checks, money orders or credit cards as payment, and others will only accept currency notes in denominations of $20 or smaller. Isn't this illegal?

That bad spelling,or American spelling?
Last time I checked it was cheques.

Posted by DJ Sarah H on Aug-05-2005 11:27:

quote:
Originally posted by willson
That bad spelling,or American spelling?
Last time I checked it was cheques.

That is how it is spelt in the good ole US of A 'check'

Posted by Zenchowdah on Aug-05-2005 12:29:

quote:
Originally posted by Wicked Neo

That is how it is spelt in the good ole US of A 'check'

mmmm phonics

Posted by teegee on Aug-05-2005 14:19:

quote:
Originally posted by charon
What a loser. What a waste of time and resources.

we're still giving him the attention and recognition he probably wants, though.

Posted by sandstorm03 on Aug-05-2005 16:16:

fuck that, i think its funny. He obv also made the news.

Posted by bas on Aug-05-2005 16:40:

that shit was funny...because CLEARLY if he had enough time to count out 12,000 pennies, put them in a trash can, and haul them to court...he wasn't doing anything else important. so he didn't get pwnd at all, and i think him getting change back is kind of a slap in the face...not only did i make you haul this trash can to the bank BUT i want my god damn change.

this guy fucking wins at life

Posted by charon on Aug-06-2005 00:32:

quote:
Originally posted by CleverName
If I were the court, I would have taken it somewhere with a public change counter that takes a percentage. Come back and give him another ticket for attempting to shortchange the state

Why are you stalking me?

Posted by smokeape on Aug-06-2005 00:50:

Guy made the news because he was a friggin' idiot. Pay any fine nowadays in pennies and you need a wheelbarrow or a dump truck. Draw that kinda change from a bank and you have to spend an indordinate amount of time just unrolling them from their containers, that is if they have enough change on hand to even give you that many pennies. Seems like a fruitless waste of time to prove a point which is inane from the get go.

I give the effort the thumbs down and in the asshole of the year category. My god, just write a check aand ink in the numbers and you're done with it.....

[[[smoke]]]

Luminary - My World (Hydroid Mix)