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$88 in pennies
2009-08-23, 5:10 AM #1
:downswords:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzc8vS-ac-g
\(='_'=)/
2009-08-23, 5:16 AM #2
They're taking the pennies to the Bank of Isengard!
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2009-08-23, 5:53 AM #3
I've had that happen when I worked at an amusement park. Of course, we were allowed to refuse any customer so it wasn't nearly as effective. We could simply tell them they weren't allowed in the park today, and that was that.

Other than that though, we've had kids who had nothing but change to pay with (not on purpose), and we had a high-end change counter back at the office. So we'd usually run it out there and have it counted in like 3 seconds.
2009-08-23, 6:42 AM #4
A little juvenile if you ask me

If I was the lady, I would've counted the pennies in front of them going as slow as possible. Make them wait another four hours to get the car

I was confused on the number of pennies unrolled. It looked like he had two $25 boxes of pennies from the bank with him and then 3300 pennies loose. So really it wasn't as big of a deal as they were making it.

Unless they literally unrolled all of the pennies in the boxes (but they looked sealed).
2009-08-23, 9:02 AM #5
Priceless.
2009-08-23, 11:02 AM #6
So the towing company tows his car... And they take it out on one employee of that company--a girl who happens to be working as a clerk there and who probably wasn't the one that towed the car. Pretty immature.
I'm just a little boy.
2009-08-23, 11:07 AM #7
It was just some random company?

What gives them the legal right to tow your car? Otherwise, kinda funny. :P
nope.
2009-08-23, 11:17 AM #8
Originally posted by Baconfish:
It was just some random company?

What gives them the legal right to tow your car? Otherwise, kinda funny. :P


They refer to it as a company in the video... I'm not terribly familiar with how it works.
I'm just a little boy.
2009-08-23, 12:08 PM #9
Originally posted by Flirbnic:
So the towing company tows his car... And they take it out on one employee of that company--a girl who happens to be working as a clerk there and who probably wasn't the one that towed the car. Pretty immature.
Yeah, how dare they make a clerk count and accept money.
2009-08-23, 12:43 PM #10
Originally posted by Jon`C:
Yeah, how dare they make a clerk count and accept money.


Uh, that's besides the point. They're getting back at the towing company by inconveniencing their clerk.
I'm just a little boy.
2009-08-23, 12:56 PM #11
The guy was probably legitimately towed anyway, he seems like the guy who would park ilegally just because it's convenient.

Though I'm suprised the office didn't have a set of simple scales for this possibility, you'd only have to weigh 88 coins and multiply it by 100, then weigh the full amount. Sure it'd be inaccurate, but well within the tolerances of what it would cost to waste time counting that much change.
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2009-08-23, 1:53 PM #12
Originally posted by Detty:
well within the tolerances of what it would cost to waste time counting that much change.

^
Flirbnic, this is the point. That clerk is being paid to do a particular job. By occupying her time with a single task, it is increasing the costs of the business to lost productivity and reduced throughput. It's not simply inconveniencing a single cash register jockey.
2009-08-23, 2:14 PM #13
Originally posted by Jon`C:
^
Flirbnic, this is the point. That clerk is being paid to do a particular job. By occupying her time with a single task, it is increasing the costs of the business to lost productivity and reduced throughput. It's not simply inconveniencing a single cash register jockey.


As long as the clerk is paid by the hour, it's not really any loss to her. She could have easily counted and recounted it in-front of them to the end of her shift if she wanted to give them a hard time.
2009-08-23, 2:34 PM #14
Or worse yet, "miscount" at the end of her shift and let someone else recount.
\(='_'=)/
2009-08-23, 3:32 PM #15
Originally posted by Baconfish:
It was just some random company?

What gives them the legal right to tow your car? Otherwise, kinda funny. :P


In the U.S., a towing company can get a license from the city to tow cars that are parked illegally. These companies are universally shady enterprises that will do anything they think they can get away with if it will help them extort a few more dollars from the owners of the cars they tow.
If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
2009-08-23, 10:56 PM #16
Originally posted by Flirbnic:
So the towing company tows his car... And they take it out on one employee of that company--a girl who happens to be working as a clerk there and who probably wasn't the one that towed the car. Pretty immature.


this
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2009-08-24, 12:22 AM #17
Originally posted by Flirbnic:
So the towing company tows his car... And they take it out on one employee of that company--a girl who happens to be working as a clerk there and who probably wasn't the one that towed the car. Pretty ****ing awesome.



Fixed.
2009-08-24, 6:19 AM #18
Thanks to ELITE WARRIOR, I've started to have doubts about my anti-gun stance.
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2009-08-24, 7:54 AM #19
Originally posted by Jon`C:
^
Flirbnic, this is the point. That clerk is being paid to do a particular job. By occupying her time with a single task, it is increasing the costs of the business to lost productivity and reduced throughput. It's not simply inconveniencing a single cash register jockey.


That's assuming the clerk has a heavy enough workload for $88 in pennies to have more than a negligible effect on the company's productivity.
I'm just a little boy.
2009-08-24, 11:18 AM #20
If she didn't have a heavy enough workload this stunt would only serve to add a spark of activity to the doldrums of her miserable life.
2009-08-24, 1:02 PM #21
Originally posted by Detty:
Thanks to ELITE WARRIOR, I've started to have doubts about my anti-gun stance.


Glad I could help. :downswords:
2009-08-24, 1:06 PM #22
The hurr is you.
2009-08-24, 1:41 PM #23
Originally posted by Flirbnic:
So the towing company tows his car... And they take it out on one employee of that company--a girl who happens to be working as a clerk there and who probably wasn't the one that towed the car. Pretty immature.


Whenever I've been towed I towed the lazy *** guy sitting in his truck at the lot waiting for people to pay him all day, before he goes at at night to tow some more people. I should have done this.
2009-08-24, 7:50 PM #24
That...that post did not make any sense.
Warhead[97]
2009-08-24, 7:57 PM #25
Originally posted by Squirrel King:
Whenever I've been towed I towed the lazy *** guy sitting in his truck


ermmmm :P
2009-08-24, 7:57 PM #26
Originally posted by Demon_Nightmare:
If I was the lady, I would've counted the pennies in front of them going as slow as possible. Make them wait another four hours to get the car


haha totally
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2009-08-25, 12:41 AM #27
Am I missing something, or is this just retarded. yes it's legal tender and business can't refuse to take it. but they can legaly refuse service, can they not?

maybe it's diffrent for towing companies, but if someone pulled that at the movie theater I worked at and wanted to pay for even a drink in just pennies I'd refuse to take it and if they say it's legal tender, i'll just exercise MY right to refuse service.
The Gas Station
2009-08-25, 12:55 AM #28
It's not a service, it's a fine.
And saberous, yea.. ermm..

Whenever I've been towed I PAID the lazy ....
2009-08-25, 1:28 AM #29
Originally posted by Grant:
Am I missing something, or is this just retarded. yes it's legal tender and business can't refuse to take it. but they can legaly refuse service, can they not?

maybe it's diffrent for towing companies, but if someone pulled that at the movie theater I worked at and wanted to pay for even a drink in just pennies I'd refuse to take it and if they say it's legal tender, i'll just exercise MY right to refuse service.


I agree. I'd say they should refuse service just for being a smart-***
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2009-08-25, 11:10 AM #30
Those guys are 100% *******s.
2009-08-25, 11:16 AM #31
Originally posted by Grant:
Am I missing something, or is this just retarded. yes it's legal tender and business can't refuse to take it. but they can legaly refuse service, can they not?

maybe it's diffrent for towing companies, but if someone pulled that at the movie theater I worked at and wanted to pay for even a drink in just pennies I'd refuse to take it and if they say it's legal tender, i'll just exercise MY right to refuse service.


If it were just a service they could, but they can't very well refuse to return your property if you're willing to pay the fee.
If you think the waiters are rude, you should see the manager.
2009-08-25, 11:24 AM #32
Originally posted by Michael MacFarlane:
If it were just a service they could, but they can't very well refuse to return your property if you're willing to pay the fee.


Exactly. 31 USC 5103: United States currency is legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes and dues. You could even pay off your mortgage in pennies if you wanted.
2009-08-25, 11:25 AM #33
I wonder if there is a point where it costs more then the worth of the pennies to transport them.
2009-08-25, 11:27 AM #34
Look up 'economy of scale'
2009-08-25, 10:12 PM #35
I actually live in the town (Tallahassee, FL) where this was filmed, and I've had personal dealings with this particular towing company. As MacFarlane pointed out, towing companies are "universally shady," but Professional Parking Services in especially bastardly. They prey on and harass the town's large student population, damage cars by incorrectly towing, and their trucks drive like maniacs through apartment parking lots and residential neighborhoods. My brother's car was illegally towed by the company, yet he couldn't get any compensation because the truck driver just lied to the police about what happened. They most definitely deserve to be given $88 in pennies.
2009-08-25, 11:03 PM #36
As I said earlier, I've paid my towing fines directly to the person who towed me. Had I been cooler, I would have given the ******* 7500 pennies.

And again, as I said earlier, this guy was reclining in his tow truck at 4PM waiting for people to pay him for his early morning towings.

So explain to me, how towing a car, OBVIOUSLY a poor student (being a block away from the expensive lot...ON AN abanded road NO LONGER USED by commercial or residential)
I was trying to earn my Associates Degree in Business Management.
Instead, what I got was several hundred dollars in fines.

Did I "break the law"?
YES.
Did I do anything wrong?
NO.
I parked on a certain side of the street when you could only do it on Tuesdays and Thursdays on a Wednesday.

Even though the road is deserted 24/7
2009-08-25, 11:24 PM #37
Originally posted by Tiberium_Empire:
I wonder if there is a point where it costs more then the worth of the pennies to transport them.


Transport? I costs more than the worth of a penny to make a penny.
2009-08-26, 8:34 AM #38
Originally posted by Wuss:
I actually live in the town (Tallahassee, FL) where this was filmed, and I've had personal dealings with this particular towing company. As MacFarlane pointed out, towing companies are "universally shady," but Professional Parking Services in especially bastardly. They prey on and harass the town's large student population, damage cars by incorrectly towing, and their trucks drive like maniacs through apartment parking lots and residential neighborhoods. My brother's car was illegally towed by the company, yet he couldn't get any compensation because the truck driver just lied to the police about what happened. They most definitely deserve to be given $88 in pennies.

but she's still just a clerk. None of the things you mentioned can be done by clerks

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