Woman Pays $160 Parking Fine In Pennies
A Chiselhurst, England, woman said she paid a $160 parking fine in pennies after her parking pass fell off her windshield. Maggie Gebbett, 63, said she received the penalty notice in May and wrote a letter of appeal to Bromley Council, explaining that she had purchased a parking pass but the hot weather had caused it to peel from her windshield, The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday. Gebbett said a solicitor acting as an adjudicator for the Parking and Traffic Appeals Service recommended the fine be canceled despite ruling that there had been a technical breach. However, she said the council refused to cancel the fine and told her it would be increased if it was not paid by Wednesday. “I just think they have been extremely shabby about everything that has gone on,” Gebbett said of the council as she rolled a wheelbarrow of 1 and 2 cent coins to the council office. “I have been told I can’t have my case reviewed if I pay, but I am going to try and insist on a review. I have written a letter to say I’m making the payment under protest.”
Source: UPI
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January 13th, 2009 at 6:57 am
Too funny. A quiet but effective protest.
February 12th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Why would someone in England get a fine in $$$ and pay in ¢¢¢?
Or are you Americans too stupid to deal with the fact the other countries have different monetary units?
February 13th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Funny yes but England is not an American state, it’s pennies as said in the title not cents as said in the main text. If it’s real it might as well be accurate!
February 13th, 2009 at 1:39 am
It is surprising how people think they can fill a wheelbarrow with somewhere between 8 and 16 thousand coins. Ever tried it?
February 13th, 2009 at 4:30 am
I would imagine that the fine would have been paid in £0.01 and £0.02 pence coins, unless she was really trying to tick them off.