Penny Problem Puts Man In Trouble With N.J. Town
A Nutley, N.J. man is putting in his two cents about what he calls a lot of non-cents over a traffic ticket.
He has been trying to pay his fine in pennies, but the town is demanding he change his way of paying.
“It’s very easy to count. It goes in 10s. I mean, there’s five rows of 10s,” Frank Gilberti said.
Gilberti showed 112 rolls of pennies to CBS station WCBS-TV in New York City. He said he thought he could use the coins to pay a traffic fine at the Bloomfield Municipal Court.
“I went to the bank and got $56 worth of rolled pennies and went down to the court house and they refused to take it. They had told me to bring cash. I was under the assumption this was cash.”
Non-cents? Not really. Pennies are legal tender. In fact, at the courthouse WCBS-TV found a sign saying cash is accepted.
That’s why the Nutley resident said he fought back, calling the court and convincing workers there to take his pennies.
But the 22-year-old said there was a condition — that he write his driver’s license number on each roll.
