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i think it would have been more intersting if the guy paid the ticket in Half Cents, or fractional notes. Then you'd really get some news media there. -XoG |
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The local authority thought it might be a bomb so they evacuated the whole building! Now that is funny, I don't care where you're from!  |
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Hey guys, I'm opening an account soon with the rejects of my penny pile (all zincs) so I can get the WAMU free $100. I'll tell you guys how it goes  Also, it's a shoebox full of pennies...  Edited by wd1040
12/19/2008 12:09 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Quote:Not cents, but SBA dollars! And people think that the SBA isn't being used. Pssshhhtt. He must have cleared out every bank in the state... Edited by MorganNoob
12/19/2008 3:54 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Today, the teller looked at it, sighed, and took it into the back room to be counted. It seems like she's seen a lot of these dump boxes...
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Pillar of the Community
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Picture with that story looked like the coins were Presidential dollars. So I think the SBA thing is probably inaccurate. |
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There was a picture with the article?  I did not see one. Then again, I block a lot of stuff by default. Are you sure it was not a targeted ad? |
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I don't see a picture either... |
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Following on the heels of this story a bloke in England mailed a box of ten pence coins in to a local authority to pay a parking fine. The local authority thought it might be a bomb so they evacuated the whole building! Quote:
Michelle Finnerty, from Suffolk SafeCam, said: "The sender on this occasion has wasted police time, has wasted the bomb disposal team's time and caused unnecessary concern and anxiety.
"In the process they've cost themselves more money in having to post the parcel special delivery." "When contacted for a quote, the sender managed to stop laughing just long enough to inform this reporter that "it was worth every last penny, mate!"" |
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What a waste of time and cents......
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Rest in Peace
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Isn't all American currency legal tender for all debts, public and private? Fines are not debts. |
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Following on the heels of this story a bloke in England mailed a box of ten pence coins in to a local authority to pay a parking fine. The local authority thought it might be a bomb so they evacuated the whole building!
Or the time I mailed $19,000 in gold to the refinery i1980 and they tossed it over with the silver. When I asked a couple weeks later what the delay was, they discovered the error and sent a wire a few minutes later.
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Meanwhile back to the original post. I think the problem is the latest craze about short rolls. People everywhere have gone to leaving out one coin per roll of all coins they take to the banks or stores or wherever they spend them. Around me Bank of America has started a policy of when you bring in coins, any coins, they are put into a plastic bag, sent to an independant organization for counting. The REAL amount is entered into your account, minus a charge for this service. NO ACCOUNT? No problem. Just a higher cost and you wait until your notified of the results. OH, one more thing is the notification is also deducted from your amount.
As to the age old PENNY discussion. This has been on Coin Talk before. Songs such as:
Pennies From Heaven, Penny Lover, Penny on the Floor, Penny Serenade and many others. And for the older people remember Giddy Up 409? In that song it says "Well I saved my Pennies and I saved my Dimes"
I've said this before too. We have 5 Bucks, a Saw buck, a Fin, Two Bits, a Ten spot, C-note, Nickels and anything else we want to call our money. This is America and not England. We do not speak English, we speak American. (Except in some neighborhoods lately)
At one time our parents said not to say AIN'T. Now it's in the dictionary. This is America. Get used to it.
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We do not speak English, we speak American It's certainly called English, but you are right you don't speak English. Well, not very well anyway!  The beauty of English is it's ability to absorb new words like no other language can because of the number of different sources that it originally came from, and the number of different countries it is spoken in. While there are an awful lot more Mandarin Chinese speakers in the world than there are English speakers, they are for the most part confined to one country. It probably doesn't get the diversity of usage English does. |
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