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Is paying fines or tickets in coins such as pennies and nickels legal?
Posted on 9/21/19 at 8:59 pm
Posted on 9/21/19 at 8:59 pm
Youtube videos of this have been popping into my feed.
Lets say I have a $50.00 parking ticket from a local police force and I go to pay it in $50 worth of pennies, could they refuse to accept it? US currency is good for all debts public and private and it is legal tender.
Clearly, inconvenient for the cashier and a little for me (having to go to the bank and withdraw all these pennies). But I'm paying the amount owed and the convenience of them handling a $50 vs. $50 in pennies isn't a concern of mine.
Lets say I have a $50.00 parking ticket from a local police force and I go to pay it in $50 worth of pennies, could they refuse to accept it? US currency is good for all debts public and private and it is legal tender.
Clearly, inconvenient for the cashier and a little for me (having to go to the bank and withdraw all these pennies). But I'm paying the amount owed and the convenience of them handling a $50 vs. $50 in pennies isn't a concern of mine.
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Posted on 9/21/19 at 9:00 pm to Parmen
Gotta roll them up
Posted on 9/21/19 at 9:01 pm to Parmen
He’ll hath no wrath like a parking violation scorned.
Posted on 9/21/19 at 9:01 pm to Parmen
I'm sure it's legal but just remember that frick frick games can roll both ways.
This post was edited on 9/21/19 at 9:02 pm
Posted on 9/21/19 at 9:01 pm to notiger1997
Why you triggered? Asking a question based on some youtube videos I've watched.
Posted on 9/21/19 at 9:02 pm to Parmen
Police write parking tickets where you live?
Posted on 9/21/19 at 9:02 pm to Parmen
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could they refuse to accept it? US currency is good for all debts public and private and it is legal tender.
Yes, they can refuse it, despite the second phrase above there is no Federal statute that mandates anyone accept coins or currency as payment.
Posted on 9/21/19 at 9:03 pm to yellowfin
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Police write parking tickets where you live?
It's a made up hypothetical.
Posted on 9/21/19 at 9:05 pm to Parmen
as opposed to a made up reality?
Posted on 9/21/19 at 9:06 pm to Parmen
Making others suffer for your bad decisions. Classic.
Posted on 9/21/19 at 9:08 pm to Parmen
The answer is no, they do not have to accept it
Posted on 9/21/19 at 9:10 pm to Parmen
Sounds like a great idea
Until some 300-pound clerk named LaNeesha goes off on you in front of everyone
Until some 300-pound clerk named LaNeesha goes off on you in front of everyone
Posted on 9/21/19 at 9:10 pm to yellowfin
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Police write parking tickets where you live?
Parmen may have gotten popped by the Houma Police department and forgot to pay in their 14 day window.
It is 5 dollars and change if you go within 5 days.
If you forget and go within 14 days it jumps to like 10 and change.
If you go after that, but before going to court it is 50 and change.
If you let it go court it could go as high as a hundred and some change.
Still if germain to Houma, just wait until they start that road diet downtown foolishness with reducing traffic to one lane and arse end angled parking.
Posted on 9/21/19 at 9:12 pm to Mr Clean
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Sounds like a great idea
Until some 300-pound clerk named LaNeesha goes off on you in front of everyone
She would probably just make him sit and wait while she took 3 or 4 hours to count his money and then come up with the wrong number, assuming she doesn't just have a change counter in the first place.
Her check stays the same whether her window serves one customer or 100 that day.
Posted on 9/21/19 at 9:44 pm to Walking the Earth
quote:I'm 99% sure most don't accept a lot of coins
She would probably just make him sit and wait while she took 3 or 4 hours to count his money and then come up with the wrong number, assuming she doesn't just have a change counter in the first place.
Posted on 9/22/19 at 3:33 am to Parmen
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US currency is good for all debts public and private and it is legal tender.
I’ll take “Idiots who answer their own question” for $100.
Posted on 9/22/19 at 3:50 am to Parmen
if I were the cashier I would smile, take your money and proceed to count that money at a sloths pace while you sit down and quickly regret attempting to be "cool".
I find those videos to be just a hair less cringe worthy than the "sovereign citizen" "I'm not driving, I'm traveling" videos.
I find those videos to be just a hair less cringe worthy than the "sovereign citizen" "I'm not driving, I'm traveling" videos.
Posted on 9/22/19 at 7:12 am to Parmen
I have done it twice. Once recently for $99. It was inconvenient to unroll the coins but satisfying at the same time.
Posted on 9/22/19 at 8:30 am to Parmen
When I was in Junior High we were frickin with the fat-bitch lunch lady so several of us paid for lunch one day with 100 pennies each (not rolled).....it was funny, we were cool, but we were also twelve... grow up and pay your fine...
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