Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Guy Attempts to Pay Off Credit Card Debt with Pennies



My Daily - Can you really pay off your credit card using nothing but pennies? 'Morning Express' host Robin Meade chronicles the story of a California man whose offer to pay a $6,500 credit card debt in pennies was initially refused. Footage shows the man unloading crates filled with 650,000 rolled pennies from a truck as he explains, "My credit card is due today and I have all my pennies in the truck... Money is money isn't it?" After the bank wouldn't accept the pennies the first time, he rolled them and brought them back. "So, does my pennies stink?" he asks. Chuckling at the apparent prankster, Meade reports, "Chase Bank told our affiliate that it had nothing to do with any odor, the bank just didn't have the storage space. So the man was sent to another bank that had a larger vault."

No, dickhead, money is not money.  Those pennies are frigen useless, going to cost the bank more to convert them to actual cash that normal, non smug assholes, carry around.  The bank should have just flat out denied you.  

I'm so sick of these clowns popping up every few months trying to pay things off in ridiculous denominations (most recently that idiot kid that tried to pay his tuition in $1 bills). It's not original, it may be the easiest way into the news, but it's not original and I hope deep inside, your soul is dying just a little bit knowing that.

Actually you know what, I'd accept the payment, but I'd make that guy sit there as I verify that the cash is all there.  You want to pay like a dickhead and make more work for everyone fine, but you're going to sit here while we do it, just like we would verify the amount if you brought in a stack of $100's.   The thing these assholes never think about is you're not hurting the big bad bank institution or whoever the hell you're paying. You're screwing the barely over minimum wage teller who's now not going home at closing for dinner because she's stuck counting 650,000 fucking pennies because some douche bag had an ego so big that he felt like paying his credit card should be a newsworthy event.