Imagine sitting behind a desk when a customer walks in with a very full bag. More and more horror comes when you realize they’re going to pay you a good amount in coins alone. Sometimes you have no choice but coins are legal tender after all. But some people want your day to be miserable. But in every danger there is opportunity, and some people have the wisdom to seize it.
this is situation One Internet user found himself when an offended woman came to pay her fine. She had a master plan to viciously comply with her own punishment, but unfortunately the OP was also adept at the art of vicious compliance.
If you plan to do anything nefarious, plan well, as the intended victim may have plans of their own.
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The clerk encountered a woman obsessed with wasting her money to pay the fine.
So they did what was technically necessary and started counting one by one
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In the end the OP got out of the situation with quite a change
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Be careful if you want to pay with coins.Some locations may refuse
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In some cases, the crack was clear if you decided to reject the coin.ohio court control Coins should be recognized as legal tender in the United States, but forcing store clerks to count coins deployed was not reasonable. That said, it’s also not reasonable to force a clerk to memorize US jurisprudence just to get the job done.In Canada, this practice was so common that it caused enough headaches for government officials to limit the number of coins that could be used for payments. only coins of submitted.
Australia has similar laws, and as the OP posted, one man tried Pay fines in coins only. In this case, the fine was only $60, but it turned out to be 1,200 five cents. He was so pleased with his malicious compliance that he ignored the store clerk’s protests so they didn’t have to actually accept it. , and left without a receipt or pile of coins. Under Australian law, the government can: limit The number of coins to accept in proportion to the amount paid. Private entities can go further and will never be forced to accept fiat currency if they don’t want to.
Coins are beginning to be phased out in general in many places
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Many American laws are set by local governments, from counties to states.Despite the aforementioned Ohio example, Americans can really get away with malicious compliance. paid At $3,000 tax with a literal wheelbarrow, the total weight is about 1600 pounds. He dumped the cash in his DMV in Cedar Bluff with the help of his 11 others. US law requires staff to accept payments, and spent seven hours counting coins carefully. To his credit, the man had rolled them in advance and spent about $400 on the wheelbarrow alone.
In some EU countries, as in Canada, It was deleted The smallest forms of currency are in circulation: pennies, 1 euro cents and 2 euro cents. Some are still in use, but it is now common for shops in the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Finland, and Ireland to round purchases to the nearest multiple of 5 cents. However, some stores still accept coins as they may encourage cash purchases due to the cost of credit card transactions. Some of his EU member states have imposed limits on the number of coins government agencies can accept for a 1 euro payment.
Commentators thought the whole situation was hilarious and praised the OP’s strategy
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