WTF x YOUR CITY COLUMBUS :: MAN TRIES TO PAY FINE WITH PENNIES
Post by Big Yogi via Columbus Dispatch
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MASSILLON, Ohio (AP) — A municipal court has refused to accept a man’s payment of 5,000 pennies to cover the first installment of his traffic fines.
Judge Edward J. Elum and Massillon Municipal Court deputy clerk Shane Jackson declined to accept the delivery of the pennies thrown into a box with packing peanuts and mailed by Philip B. Simer, 27.
Simer spent $14.31 to mail his payment to the court, which sent the heavy package back to him Friday.
Simer was found guilty of two traffic violations earlier this month. He was ordered to pay $243, or $50 every two weeks, in fines and court costs. He used the pennies to make his first $50 payment. A postal worker had to deliver the large brown box with a dolly, but Elum and Jackson both refused receipt.
Simer said he has no intention of paying the fines in anything but pennies.
“I’m tired — not just me, but other people in Massillon — of getting treated like crap by (the court),” he said.
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