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German Pays Fine With 62 Kilos of Coins
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by Jon Azpiri | September 16, 2008 at 03:41 pm
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A local bank counted the coins for the county court, and found them to equal the exact amount of the fine, a court spokeswoman said.
The court in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia accepted the coins instead of returning them, because “at that weight the shipping costs would have been more than it was worth,” she said.
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Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (15)
at 16:01 on September 16th, 2008
Too funny - a clever way to stick it to the man!
at 16:03 on September 16th, 2008
Wow the penny puns are overwhelming, but I think I would have to go with the good old "a penny saved is a penny earned" (and then you can pay your bail). That is if one-cent euros are even called pennies.
at 18:23 on September 16th, 2008
Jon Azpiri, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I did that once, because I was really ticked of by the fine, that was in 1986 though and not 62kg either, yet it weigh a lot to.
at 02:00 on September 17th, 2008
Cents are gold - A microscopic gold nugget on a mysterious looking 2 euro cent coin -
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at 04:01 on September 17th, 2008
Oh come on, you always wanted to try this.
at 05:13 on September 17th, 2008
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at 07:21 on September 17th, 2008
Awesome.
at 07:25 on September 17th, 2008
Jon Azpiri, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 10:50 on September 17th, 2008
glad it was of use , email me if you use any more thanks .
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at 13:28 on September 17th, 2008
I might save up my pennies in case I get in trouble!!
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at 14:26 on September 19th, 2008
Money is Money !
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at 16:12 on September 20th, 2008
Every penny in this photo was part of a group of found money.
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at 18:13 on September 20th, 2008
the metal was probably worth much more than the fine.
at 08:48 on December 3rd, 2008
Greetings from Germany!
Here is the second part of a never ending story: "A carer who was slapped with an £80 parking fine by her council, despite winning an appeal to drop the charge, has presented her fee to officials in a wheelbarrow full of pennies in protest at the penalty. [...]" - http://www.justizkritik.de/#80
at 06:35 on December 4th, 2008
Why pay a fine in small change?
Angry about the loss of money and the wish to strike back has kept this way of paying a fine popuplar for centuries.
Not under Stalin, Idi Amin or Kim Il Jung, to be sure. But how childish and pointless a cartload of coins may appear: when well-off people in their fifties and sixties take resort to it, there must to be more behind it than the pubescent joy of getting on the nerves of authorities.
May it not be a cry of despair deep in a bureaucratic jungle of which there is often no way out for Mr and Mrs Average? A cry of citizens who are fed up with watching their tax billions being blown up in all kinds of economic mismanagement and who at the same time see themselves hunted down for the slightest parking offence - to provide fresh money? Thus, paying fines with copper should be regarded as an honourable and recommendable means of fighting administrative complacency.
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Sincerely,
René Schneider