Georgia man receives $915 in pennies as final paycheck

A Georgia man says he was given $915 worth of pennies as a form of payment from his previous employer

The man said he was shocked to see his final payment: 90,000 oil or grease covered pennies, at the end of his driveway earlier this month, news outlets reported. Atop the pile was an envelope with his final paystub and an explicit parting message.

ABC News article:
https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireSt...ia-man-receives-final-paycheck-coins-76671555

 

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Better redo his whole floor of his house.

 

That's how I once paid a speeding ticket in NJ.

 

A $915 speeding ticket!!!! Just how fast were you going!!!!

 

NO, I think it was $70.....7,000 in pennies.

The Clerk and judge objected....I had a letter from Treasury Secretary Rubin stating that all coins/currency was good for all debts, PUBLIC and private.

Told them they could keep the excess change.

B.S. speeding ticket 200 feet away from the house I was staying at in Wildwood, NJ.

 

You are lucky, many courts have ruled doing this is contempt of court regardless of what a Secretary says.

 

I saw this and I think the man should take the necessary action against his old employer. Illegal dumping for starters.

 

I know what the law says that they are legal tender but, by paying a traffic ticket with pennies you could open yourself to being accused of insulting the court. It wouldn't take much to have a judge rule you in contempt of court because you just insulted the court. However, I don't know much about the NJ court system but where I'm from you don't pay a fine in a court room setting. Your told what you have to pay and then given a period of time to make the payment. You may have to pay the fine that day or you could be give a week to pay the fine so if you paid a fine with pennies in most cases you pay it at the clerks office. And all you did is give someone poor bugger in the clerks office a lot of extra work because now they have to count every penny. The cop that gave you the ticket isn't the one suffering thru counting every penny. He or she may not even know how you paid your ticket. So if you were trying to get even with the cop you didn't.

As far as the guy receiving his last paycheck in pennies there hast to be more to that story. The first one would be why were you fired? There is a lot of missing information at the beginning of the post. You can't judge the situation without all the facts.

 

Just think, if you sit in your driveway and count them and come up short or over the intended amount. Turn them in to the Internal Revenue for tax evasion. Okay then, next move...

 

A few 5-gallon buckets and a bottle of Dawn dish soap or Tide. Rinse and repeat...

 

Go buy a used car from that dealership and as a down payment give him all those oiled Cents back. If he refuses to accept them, then sue him out of business.

 

Lol.. he got called a weenie.
would love to take a look at them. Minus the oily sludge

 

Yep they are legal tender, a legal offer of payment. But from the Treasury website it states that there is no law that REQUIRES people to accept legal tender. So they can be refused, but then they can't claim that you didn't try to settle the debt. Doesn't mean the debt is cancelled, but it does prevent the application of late fees and penalties. So they would have been perfectly within their rights to refuse those 7,000 cents. And the Georgia man could send his former employer a letter refusing the 91,500 cents, he would still be owed his last paycheck.

 

I guess it depends where you live. That much change is not legal tender for debts public or private here. I remember that this was discussed before.

 

I will relieve you of your problem. $0.50 for the lot. Your shipping. I will bear the cost of Acetone and the cost of labor to clean.

 

What a jerk of a boss.

 

I find this a petty act by the former boss. Since they were dumped in the ex-employees driveway this could be considered littering; especially if he first soaked them in oil. I for one would never do business with the jerk.

 

In my area the judge would rip the former boss in half.

 

This makes me think of a news report from years ago.
A car dealer ran a TV ad that said you can buy this car for only x amount of bananas. Someone brought a truck with that many bananas. The dealer refused the payment and the buyer dumped the load in the dealers lot.
I would love to have been in court to see what the judge had to say.

 

That's what I was thinking.