Man in trouble for paying speding ticket.

[PsychoSniper]

<a href=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140550,00.html>Bucketful of Pennies Used to Pay Traffic Ticket</a>

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Manti man has a penny for Sanpete County's thoughts. About 8,200 of them, actually.

Grant Petersen withdrew that many copper coins from his bank and delivered them in a bucket to pay an $82 fine he got for driving with a burnt-out headlight.

Court officials are apparently not amused, and have asked Petersen to come back in and offer a more "acceptable" form of payment.

They say state policy allows clerks to reject unusual forms of payment, and it's going to waste county resources for someone to count all that change.

Petersen says he doesn't plan on honoring that request. He says money is money, and U.S. law provides that coins are legal tender.










If I recall the law right, all currency is legal tender and must be accepted for debts public and private. Sounds like he has the law on his side in screwing the law.

 

[Ozrat]

They say state policy allows clerks to reject unusual forms of payment, and it's going to waste county resources for someone to count all that change.

Why would you hire somebody for that? Isn't that what banks have coin counting machines for?

 

[PsychoSniper]

Its a Goverment office. They never do presue the efficent course of action.

 

[Big T]

They say state policy allows clerks to reject unusual forms of payment, and it's going to waste county resources for someone to count all that change.

If I recall the law right, all currency is legal tender and must be accepted for debts public and private. Sounds like he has the law on his side in screwing the law.

Didn't you read the article?

I liked the article about the butter more. Same link that PsychoSniper gave, next article down.

Flood of Butter Flows Through Streets

NEW ULM, Minn. (AP) — Too bad firefighters didn't have a pile of popcorn handy — or better yet, loads of lobster tails.

An intense fire consumed half of the roof of the Associated Milk Producers Inc. butter packaging plant, sending melted butter flowing out of the facility.

There were no immediate reports of injuries, but officials worried that the melted butter would interfere with the railroad tracks bordering the plant's east end.

The plant was holding an estimated 3 million pounds of butter at the time of the fire Wednesday.

A plant employee discovered the fire in a utility area, and the 30 workers in the butter packaging plant were evacuated and sent home.

Officials were investigating the cause of the buttery blaze.

 

[Tannhauser]

Christ, this sort of thing is still news?

It's ancient, people have been paying fines in pennies as a form of protest for quite some time now. Though this one was rather moronic.

The last one I heard about, the woman had a thirty dollar fine, but a fifty dollar charge for administrative costs. She protested, easy to see why, not just because she thought she didn't deserve the ticket.