Some douche paying his towing bill of $88 in pennies, even involves the cops!
 

Not that the person at the towing company handled it properly, but jesus. Hope no crimes were being committed in town at that time. I can't find anything on whether the dude earned his car being towed, which means he probably did illegally park and thinks his shit's holy, or at least holy enough to waste what, 6 other people's time with the ordeal?

Most municipalities etc have laws that specifically forbid using coins of any type to pay fines and things like that, just for this reason.

i knew a guy who paid alimony like that

purty funny

Billionaire Mark Cuban is known for paying his $100,000+ NBA fines in pure pennies.

So, I was divorcing my first ex-wife. I was ordered to pay her attorney $250. I was bummed and pissed. I would show him.

I went to my bank and had to special order $250 in small change. They would not give me all pennies, but they did get it to me in pennies, nickels and dimes. It never dawned on me at the time just how heavy this was going to be. And that was when they were packed nicely in their wrappers, all stacked in rows.

That wasn't good enough for me though. I had to open up these rolls and pour them all into a pillow case. Now this shit was good and heavy. I lug it out to the truck and head to downtown Torrance.

Now downtown Torrance is pretty old, so no real tall buildings, but few elevators either. I cruise by the address to discover it is a two story building, with their office upstairs, no elevator and no parking spot within a block.

Long story short [if not too late], I get the pillowcase of money up to the office. The guy refuses it, gets his partner out there as a witness and suggests [rightfully] that the Judge probably isn't going to find it too amusing.

Needless to say I ended up dragging those coins back to the truck and eventually to the bank . . . and I sent the lawyer a check.

Damn, that sucks. Golf clap for the effort though.

If he was in a lineup of 10 random people, i'd put my money that his ugly mug would do something as stupid as this. He looks like the type of Neanderthal shithead that would pull something like this

good for that guy....

After watching it, I have to agree with, great success. Seems it was the chick's fault for not just saying fuck it and taking the money.

Right?

I bet if he was in her position, he would have done what she did, as would a lot of other people, not to mention it seemed as if she was trying to abide by the company's policy which apparently was not to take them unless they were rolled. So yea, the company should change their policy, but if every towing company were to take unrolled pennies on every towed car, they'd be out of business having to count them, and if he parked illegally then whose fault is it really? Loser just wanted to fuck with someone over his own stupidity and she happened to be working there that day. If it was a case where he didn't do anything wrong and someone got his car towed out of spite for him, then I could see why he'd do it (even if he should instead be taking it out on whoever called in the tow), but wtf does he expect if he parked illegally?

I think he admitted he had to pay. There was no argument there. And I think she was making it HER policy that they had to be rolled.

ya pussy you should have filmed it , called 6 cops and forced them to take it ..:winkwink:

But that's the thing - why pull a stunt like this if it's something he knows he did wrong and has to pay for? Why not save "statements" like this for times when you're wrongfully charged for shit? (and in those cases I would applaud this behavior, and your case sounds like it may have been one :))

Yea actually it does seem like she may have been making up policy, but still...how many people do you think would, in her position, say "oh okay" and start counting up the 8,800 pennies? The one and only day job I ever had was in customer service and just based on the limited sample of CS people I worked with, a good chunk of them would have tried anything to get out of dealing with something like this. Only good moral CS people would have just bitten the bullet and done it, and chances are most of those people aren't working at towing companies.

whats a prick lol

1980, don't think I could afford that cam.

Even if I was her boss I would not expect her to count them. No one goes through that much trouble and then be short.

A long time ago I had a bet with someone over something related to this, and the research involved (yes, lawyers were involved for legal opinions.. we take our bets to the rather ridiculous levels here...) covered this aspect.

If you roll into say a Best Buy and say "hey, I want to pay in pennies for this new TV!" they can refuse you service of course.

Essentially it boils down to the fact that there is NO law that says you must accept US currency as a form of payment.

However... There IS a law that states you must accept us currency for *debts*. This is where legal opinions differed, but in general it was decided that if for example you refused to pay your credit card bill with a check, and insisted on cash - and this matter got to court, the judge would force them to accept cash at that time to settle the case.

However, we did not get legal opinions re: the denomination of currency, or if coinage counted :) I think it would come down to if you were purposefully fucking with someone over it or not. If some homeless guy needed to pay his $150 in coinage, I think that differs a lot from some asshole trying to screw with someone over sending 10 brinks trucks full of pennies.

Who knows though, it's a fun topic at least!

That said, this guy is a prick for wasting law enforcement's time over this. Absolute bullshit.

They are also wrong in that it's a "federal crime to not accept currency" - no such law exists, and I won a *very* substantial bet over this fact. You could perhaps make the argument an impound fine is a debt.. In which case the waters do get rather muddy.

You know, the way they could really piss him off.. Is accept the pennies, but tell him they have to count them before they release the car. :2 cents:

Good rule but sometimes 'payback' is good.

They dont have coin counting machines at the banks over there?

He's not a douche - more power to him.

"Professional Parking" what the fuck ever. Their office looks like a little ghetto shed crackhouse.

Sticking it to the man, $88 at a time :thumbsup

i'l do it again :D

Last time I checked pennies were legal currency

I just don't get shit like that. Why the fuck do they even make coins if we can't use them everywhere?

It's bad enough our dollars are worthless pieces of paper backed by nothing, a Federal Note... lol... coins are the only thing worth a damn, as they are actual metals. Madness.

Stories like that piss me off. :2 cents:

lol self ownage

that's pure awesome. :thumbsup

ps - those cops look like they could use another donut or two...

OK, he may have parked his car where he shouldn't have. But that doesn't mean one can't have $88.00 worth of fun and get massive hits on youtube out of it.

I hate fucking towing companies and the way they opperate as much as anyone. They always treat people like shit when they go to pick up their car and you have to pay them 'cause they have your car.

I can see the get back factor in this case being high and it didn't hurt anybody = Nice GAG!!!

The slag behind the counter should have taken the money as it is legal tender and the cops wouldn't have been called. Not the kids problem if they send 15 cops to this BS case, one cop would have worked.

Come on now, most cops I see are trying to pull people over for going 5 mph over the speed limit or not wearing their seat belt. Seemed like one of the cops thought it was funny.

He may or may not deserved to have his car towed. If it wasn't his fault it's the towing company that wasted peoples time and also ripped someone off. A friend of mine use to manage a club that was so crowded people parked in areas around the club. A lot of people would have their cars towed when there wasn't any signs saying they can't park there or even when businesses weren't open. Basically people get their cars towed for no reason at all the time and they have to pay it. I guess they could goto court over it but most people need their cars.

Right on...I people refuse to take it then fuck them... They must not want it that bad anyway... :2 cents:

He should have rolled them up lol

Loved it.. but yeah, he parked illegally so he deserved it.

If someone stole a sign or something I could see this being much greater :)

should of left them in the wrappers

I see nothig wrong.

doooh! well that sucks