£1,300 fine paid in pennies refused

[Liability]

LOOOL

£1,300 fine paid in pennies refused
£1,300 fine paid in pennies refused
A city council refused to accept a supermarket trolley holding almost half a tonne of pennies from a wheel-clamper as payment for a £1,300 debt.
The shopping trolley, which requires three men to move it, was delivered in a van to trading standards offices in Birmingham by wheel-clamper Gary Southall.
The 48-year-old, from Digbeth, Birmingham, had hoped that the pennies would pay legal costs he owes to the city council after a court action in January.

http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/arti...entid=14352431

[Board Game Geek]

They refused to accept legal tender ?

Hmmmm....

[Liability]

They refused to accept legal tender ?

Hmmmm....

that's what I thought - do they have the right to do that? I guess he could have left it there and had it signed as Recieved.

But good on him!

[PRC1964]

They refused to accept legal tender ?

Hmmmm....

The amounts you have to accept are quite low. I know as a result of trying to bank a load of coins raised by the school PTA.

See here for more: http://www.royalmint.com/Corporate/p...uidelines.aspx

21p in 1p coins is too much. Only 20p counts as leagl tender.

[Bagpuss]

Which is more hateful, a wheel-clamper or a council official?

Looking again he delivered to trading standards, so he's hardly an honest member of the public!

[Board Game Geek]

Baggie posted : Which is more hateful, a wheel-clamper or a council official?

Neither.

I'd opt for either a dentist doing root canal treatment on his wife's lover, or a vasectomy surgeon working on his wife's bit-on-the-side.

[expat]

They refused to accept legal tender ?

Hmmmm....

No, they didn't. That was not legal tender:

Coins are legal tender throughout the United Kingdom for the following amount:

£5 (Crown) - for any amount
£2 - for any amount
£1 - for any amount
50p - for any amount not exceeding £10
25p (Crown) - for any amount not exceeding £10
20p - for any amount not exceeding £10
10p - for any amount not exceeding £5
5p - for any amount not exceeding £5
2p - for any amount not exceeding 20p
1p - for any amount not exceeding 20p

As a curious addendum, no notes are legal tender in Scotland. (Scottish and English notes are legal, just not legal tender).

[Finkels]

No, they didn't. That was not legal tender:

As a curious addendum, no notes are legal tender in Scotland. (Scottish and English notes are legal, just not legal tender).

And that's only for paying into a court. Elsewhere, there is no concept of legal tender.

[BrilloPad]

The amounts you have to accept are quite low. I know as a result of trying to bank a load of coins raised by the school PTA.

See here for more: http://www.royalmint.com/Corporate/p...uidelines.aspx

21p in 1p coins is too much. Only 20p counts as leagl tender.

I was in a taxi a while ago there was a sign saying that change does not have to be tendered : is that true?

[tim123]

I was in a taxi a while ago there was a sign saying that change does not have to be tendered : is that true?

yes

tim