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Buying your car back for pennies?

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Title 31 (Money and Finance), Subtitle IV (Money), Chapter 51 (Coins and Currency), Subchapter I (Monetary System), Section 5103 (Legal Tender) of the United States Code states:
United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues. Foreign gold or silver coins are not legal tender for debts.
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bit anticlimatic.

1. a bitter college kid with nothing else to do decides to pay with pennies for his towed car.
2. cashier refuses
3. cops show up
4. cashier concedes
5. the end.
 
Didn't watch it, so i'm not sure whether he deserved to be towed or not, but:

predatory towers should be nuked from orbit.
 
Originally posted by: Clair de Lune
bit anticlimatic.

1. a bitter college kid with nothing else to do decides to pay with pennies for his towed car.
2. cashier refuses
3. cops show up
4. cashier concedes
5. the end.
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You forgot "wasted a bunch of peoples' time" including at least 4 (they say 7 on the video) cops.
 
The interesting thing from that treasury page it that it says private businesses can regulate as allowed by state laws the type/amount of currency they take.


So next time you get a bill/fine from a government agency, bring out the pennies!
 
Originally posted by: lupi
The interesting thing from that treasury page it that it says private businesses can regulate as allowed by state laws the type/amount of currency they take.


So next time you get a bill/fine from a government agency, bring out the pennies!
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I should have paid for my illegal u-turn ticket in pennies. Thing is, DMV/Clerk of Court employees have it shitty enough as it is with their boring jobs, and I'm not making the cop who gave me my ticket count the pennies. Fail.
 
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
Originally posted by: mugs
http://www.treas.gov/education...ncy/legal-tender.shtml
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Most local/county governments regulate non-consent tows and require the towing companies to accept cash and at least one major credit card as payment. Some require them to accept more. It's not like they had a choice of doing business there or not.
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yeap. i can see a store saying they don't want the pennies. but something like a tow company should have to accept any type of legal tender.
 
Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Originally posted by: lupi
The interesting thing from that treasury page it that it says private businesses can regulate as allowed by state laws the type/amount of currency they take.


So next time you get a bill/fine from a government agency, bring out the pennies!
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I should have paid for my illegal u-turn ticket in pennies. Thing is, DMV/Clerk of Court employees have it shitty enough as it is with their boring jobs, and I'm not making the cop who gave me my ticket count the pennies. Fail.
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Last year when we were camping we decided to go over to the lake (at a national park) and do some swimming. We got there and there was a sign that said "$10 to park", so we parked somewhere else and walked over.

When we got there and walked down to the beach the guy from the booth came out all pissed off and told us we didn't pay the $10. After arguing with him for a while about how it said "$10 to park" and not "$10 for lake access", we went back to our car and filled the little envelope with $10 worth of nickels and pennies and rammed it through the pay slot. When it hit the bottom of the pay-container I heard the thing split open and coins go everywhere :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: bignateyk
Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Originally posted by: lupi
The interesting thing from that treasury page it that it says private businesses can regulate as allowed by state laws the type/amount of currency they take.


So next time you get a bill/fine from a government agency, bring out the pennies!
Click to expand...

I should have paid for my illegal u-turn ticket in pennies. Thing is, DMV/Clerk of Court employees have it shitty enough as it is with their boring jobs, and I'm not making the cop who gave me my ticket count the pennies. Fail.
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Last year when we were camping we decided to go over to the lake (at a national park) and do some swimming. We got there and there was a sign that said "$10 to park", so we parked somewhere else and walked over.

When we got there and walked down to the beach the guy from the booth came out all pissed off and told us we didn't pay the $10. After arguing with him for a while about how it said "$10 to park" and not "$10 for lake access", we went back to our car and filled the little envelope with $10 worth of nickels and pennies and rammed it through the pay slot. When it hit the bottom of the pay-container I heard the thing split open and coins go everywhere :laugh:
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:beer:

 
The cashier should just make him wait while she counts the pennies. She gets paid so its no skin off her back.
 
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