Man fined for paying fee in pennies

terry78 said:
It does kind of suck when you work in customer service or support and someone who is disgruntled at the corporation takes it out on you specifically as opposed to going to a higher up. And the exact reason they do it is because they know you're the only one that they could actually get away with doing it to, the guy on the lowest rung.
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Not necessarily "get away with it".

That lowest rung exists so that other people don't have to deal with it.
 
I laugh how this is a community that defends the right of police officers to shot unarmed 14 year olds and at the same time ignores a police ruling that something was disorderly conduct because it may infringe on their rights to be *****.

What can I say? It shouldn't be irrelevant that someone rudely chooses to dump thousands of pennies on a counter, pennies spill over, clerk has to get on their hands and knees to pick things up, can take ****ing hours to count!

dis·or·der·ly con·duct noun

Unruly behavior constituting a minor offense
 
Bubonic said:
I laugh how this is a community that defends the right of police officers to shot unarmed 14 year olds and at the same time ignores a police ruling that something was disorderly conduct because it may infringe on their rights to be *****.

What can I say? It shouldn't be irrelevant that someone rudely chooses to dump thousands of pennies on a counter, pennies spill over, clerk has to get on their hands and knees to pick things up, can take ****ing hours to count!

dis·or·der·ly con·duct noun

Unruly behavior constituting a minor offense
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I don't remember ever defending the right of a police officer to shoot a 14 year old girl.

I do remember breaking down the issue of a police officer tazing a kid though...

Someone making payment by legal tender, albeit pennies, does not constitute disorderly or unruly conduct.
 
Wasn't directed to you, hence why I didn't quote you, just this site always seems to find me on the wrong side of the law. I'm either too soft or too hard.
 
I have to be honest, I'm not 100% fluent with US criminal law myself (hell, US law in general).

But I assumed it would be similar to our own equivalent laws.

I'd say I'm surprised to see that discharging a firearm falls under that banner... but then it is the US...
 
Bubonic said:
Wasn't directed to you, hence why I didn't quote you, just this site always seems to find me on the wrong side of the law. I'm either too soft or too hard.
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Its in the context. If he calmly placed the money on the counter to pay his bill like anyone would (except with pennies) then I can't see any legal recourse.

If he just flung the pennies everywhere or dumped them violently all over the place and was belligerent then you might could make a case. Either way the act of paying in pennies shouldn't be the issue, but the manner that it was done.

I am going off of what we know. He wanted to pay his bill in legal currency. Anything else is assumed.

Its nothing the legal system should be involved in.
 
Is he going to pay the fine with pennies & then get another fine & so on ?
 
Pennies are still legal tender. Yes, the guy was being a jerk for paying in pennies, but so what? It's not like the employee taking the payment would have to spend forever and a day counting individual pennies. That's what they make those electronic coin sorters for.
 
Dick move, but the ticket was stupid. Pennies are legal tender.

For the person who had to count them, so what? They are paid to do their job, if their job requires them to count pennies, then they count pennies.
 
Bubonic said:
I laugh how this is a community that defends the right of police officers to shot unarmed 14 year olds and at the same time ignores a police ruling that something was disorderly conduct because it may infringe on their rights to be *****.

What can I say? It shouldn't be irrelevant that someone rudely chooses to dump thousands of pennies on a counter, pennies spill over, clerk has to get on their hands and knees to pick things up, can take ****ing hours to count!

dis·or·der·ly con·duct noun

Unruly behavior constituting a minor offense
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The last time I checked, paying in official US currency isn't illegal. So what if dumped them? They should have been swept up and counted later. Being a jerk ( a creative one, IMO) shouldn't demand wasting tax payer dollars by involving the police. Once the money was counted, this situation should have been over. Instead, the clinic got ******** and decided to waste their city's resources.
 
Scar Predator said:
The last time I checked, paying in official US currency isn't illegal. So what if dumped them? They should have been swept up and counted later. Being a jerk ( a creative one, IMO) shouldn't demand wasting tax payer dollars by involving the police. Once the money was counted, this situation should have been over. Instead, the clinic got ******** and decided to waste their city's resources.
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If by creative you mean childish, then yes.
 
Spidey-Bat said:
Dick move, but the ticket was stupid. Pennies are legal tender.

For the person who had to count them, so what? They are paid to do their job, if their job requires them to count pennies, then they count pennies.
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I've worked in a supermarket for the past 10 years and we've always had customers bring in pennies to pay for products. Sometime they're not even rolled. It's basically our job to count them.
 
Man is an ******* for paying with pennies, but as long as pennies are legal tender, he is allowed to do so.

As for people crying about the employees having to count them. Boo hoo, people do worse things that count as their entire job description than sitting around counting pennies.
 
Yea man, counting pennies is piss easy compared to a lot of other jobs.

And so what is the guy actually being fined for, specifically? They give out fines for being a *****e bag now? In that case 99% of the worlds population should have been fined by now.
 
Go count 2500 pennies by hand, tell me how long it takes you.
Morningstar you've posted the exact same thing as someone else, it's uncanny.
 
Ahh I see it. What Wildcat posted?

And counting 2500 dollars worth of pennies by hand? Yea i imagine it's incredibly boring, perhaps frustrating. But to actually get paid to sit on your arse and count pennies? Where do I sign up!?
 
Bubonic said:
Go count 2500 pennies by hand, tell me how long it takes you.
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It doesn't matter how long it takes. At the end of the day, you're counting. Yes, it's inconvenient, yes, it's tedious. But it's hardly criminal.

There are people who clean up **** for a living. My sister is training to be a nurse, and let me tell you, when patients act like *******s the consequences are much worse than just counting pennies.
 
Yah, no biggy.
Anyways I still stand by the I'm right you're wrong until the fine is successfully contested and the charges dropped. :woot:
 
People want their freedom, and they won't to be able to have it their way. When someone else's freedom impeeds on them though they want to ***** and moan. He has every right to pay the bill in any US Legal Tender. The penny is exactly that. God forbid this employee has to count some pennies. This is something you tell your friends and look back on as a ****** day at work. You don't make it into a side-show lawsuit. There are children out their who get less water in a week than the average American gets in a day. Imagine having to find fresh water instead of walking into your kitchen and lifting a nozzle. I don't want to hear this crap about counting pennies being a difficult task. If I had been the employee I would have *****ed to my co-worker, and got on with life. I swear people piss me off sometimes.
 
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God forbid an employee has to count some pennies.
That comes up a lot.
IT'S OVER TWO THOUSAND ****ING PENNIES, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
 
I'm almost tempted to find a great big pile of pennies and count them just to prove how inconsequential it is.
 
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