Brett Sanders went on a crusade against the system after he got caught doing 39 mph (63 km/h) in a 30 mph (48 km/h) zone and fined, but his method of dealing with the situation was, well, let’s just say out of the ordinary.
The 32-year old tried to dispute the ticket in court, but lost. Aggravated by the situation, Sanders figured it was best to make the payment as inconvenient as possible, so he decided to pay the fine in pennies.
He got ~20,000 coins from the bank, painted two buckets with the words “extortion payment”, headed to the Frisco Municipal Court and dumped the pennies on the counter.
Sadly, while trying to “stick it to the man”, the outraged individual managed only to take his anger out on an innocent clerk – who was just doing her job and seemed perfectly cordial.
To make matters worse, according to the CNN, the original fine was $79.90, but with court costs the total amount got to $212. That’s without the time and money spent for planning his little act of self-justice, of course.
“I was on my residential street when I got a ticket for going nine miles over the speed limit. I thought it was unfair. I did not injure anyone, and I did not endanger anyone. Not only am I [ticked] off about this ticket and paying with pennies to clog up the system, but I also want to protest the whole racket”, Sanders said.
The pennies were counted using two coin-cashing machines and took staffers about three hours. At the end, there was an overpayment of $7.81 and Sanders was contacted by the Municipal Court to retrieve his money, but refused.