Pissed Off Guy Who Got Car Towed Paid Wreckers With 8,800 Pennies

[thinkliberty]

Guy pays tow company in pennies

[UOGSammich]

lol.. loved it.  Camera got kicked out after she got steamed! Guess it pays to know the laws.

[Mike Barskey]

Assuming the tow company wrongly towed his car and thus greatly inconvenienced him, I think it's a great idea to inconvenience the tow company to get it back. If the tow company was merely towing a car off someone's private property (and the property owner requested it), then I think it's pretty rude to inconvenience the tow company to get your car back (your anger should be directed at the property owner).

An unrelated point, though: never call the cops! This guy got lucky in that the cops didn't arrest him for some imaginary charge. Hell, if the cop was having a bad day, Mr. Penny Payer could have been arrested for "disobeying an officer" or something. As it turned out, the penny payers lucked out and the cops were merely dumb and not aggressive (at the moment).

One more comment: one of the penny payers said, in defense of being able to pay with pennies, "this is a democracy." Ummm, that was pretty stupid.

Ooops, yet another comment: I don't know if they watched/videoed the tow company counting the pennies, but they should have: if the tow company claims there was only 7,999 in pennies and the guys don't have video proof there was 8,000, then the tow company might cause even more inconvenience for the guys! But this also brings up a question: why did the guy borrow $27 in FRNs from his friends? Did he not have enough pennies? Did he and the tow company reach an agreement? Did he pay in FRNs?

[KBCraig]

The video would have been better without the stoner friend giggling uncontrollably.

[thinkliberty]

I think from the video the lady took the rolled coins and he had 33 dollars he had to pay that was not rolled... so he used FRNs? It was not really clear.

I assume they towed his car because he parked it on the street overnight, not that he was parked in a private lot. The video did not make that part clear (again) and I am not sure.

[UOGSammich]

Assuming the tow company wrongly towed his car and thus greatly inconvenienced him, I think it's a great idea to inconvenience the tow company to get it back. If the tow company was merely towing a car off someone's private property (and the property owner requested it), then I think it's pretty rude to inconvenience the tow company to get your car back (your anger should be directed at the property owner).

An unrelated point, though: never call the cops! This guy got lucky in that the cops didn't arrest him for some imaginary charge. Hell, if the cop was having a bad day, Mr. Penny Payer could have been arrested for "disobeying an officer" or something. As it turned out, the penny payers lucked out and the cops were merely dumb and not aggressive (at the moment).

One more comment: one of the penny payers said, in defense of being able to pay with pennies, "this is a democracy." Ummm, that was pretty stupid.

Ooops, yet another comment: I don't know if they watched/videoed the tow company counting the pennies, but they should have: if the tow company claims there was only 7,999 in pennies and the guys don't have video proof there was 8,000, then the tow company might cause even more inconvenience for the guys! But this also brings up a question: why did the guy borrow $27 in FRNs from his friends? Did he not have enough pennies? Did he and the tow company reach an agreement? Did he pay in FRNs?

The pennies in the cardboard boxes were rolled, he actually unrolled 33$ worth to put in the plastic. After looking at that video and a few others it seems he went to the bank with 88$.


Either way I would like more incite into what the law actually is here.. and how it varies between private businesses etc.

[Raineyrocks]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c70_1249334091

Pissed Off Guy Who Got Car Towed Paid Wreckers With 8,800 Pennies

U.S.A. An angry citizen who got his car towed paid the towtruck company with pennies which they at first refused and police were called, they were forced to accept the payment since it's legal tender.

[Kat Kanning]

Merged the two topics on this.

[Giggan]

I've heard the metal in pennies, whatever they use these days, is actually worth more than 1/100 of an FRN.

[Moebius Tripp]

Depends on the date of the penny:  1909-1982 pennies are worth almost 2/100 of a dollar, post '82 about .5/100.

http://www.coinflation.com/