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Man Pays €60 Motor Tax Fine With 6,000 1c Coins

  • 05-02-2013 11:05pm
    #1
    Max Power
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭


    Legend!
    One unfortunate driver was fined for not having his tax displayed while paying for it in the tax office, so decided to stump up in an unusual way.

    Daniel Farrell in Tralee who was in the tax office paying for his disc when he returned to find a fine for not having the correct tax disc on his car.

    Daniel was understandably a little miffed to find the traffic warden issuing a €60 fine, so he decided to seek revenge in his own little way. He went to the bank and got the €60 in one cents coins to pay for the fine. As he said himself, it may have been meaningless, but gave him some degree of satisfaction.

    http://joe.ie/news-politics/current-affairs/kerry-driver-pays-his-tax-fine-in-one-cent-coins-6000-of-them-0033747-1


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Comments

  • #2
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    He's a moron. If he was in paying his tax he could have appealed the fine!


  • #3
    _rebelkid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭_rebelkid


    My dream has been made into reality!


  • #4
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    They're under no obligation to accept that many coins I believe. Other than banks, places don't have to accept more than 50 coins in one transaction or something.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #5
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    In before "think of the people working in the tax office" army.


  • #6
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    In before "think of the people working in the tax office" army.
    Yep, he was being a dick to them. Shooting the messenger is what lazy ***** do.

    The support for bullying people dealing with the public is staggering.


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  • #7
    vektarman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭vektarman


    Anyone else think he was childish doing this?


  • #8
    olcod
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭olcod


    Superb, fair play to him. Have to cough up a 500 euro fine for non payment of a speeding ticket next week.........hmmmmmmm :)


  • #9
    Max Power
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    smash wrote: »
    He's a moron. If he was in paying his tax he could have appealed the fine!
    You're wrong. His car was parked in a public car park with no valid tax disc. Even if he had taxed it before the fine was issued, he would still be done for non display of a valid tax disc.


  • #10
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    vektarman wrote: »
    Anyone else think he was childish doing this?

    Yup. Think it was very childish of him to do.
    Absolutely no point other than "I'll make other customers wait"


  • #11
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    FionnMcCool87 wrote: »
    You're wrong. His car was parked in a public car park with no valid tax disc. Even if he had taxed it before the fine was issued, he would still be done for non display of a valid tax disc.
    And you can still appeal it. I've done it in the past!


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  • #12
    Mr. Nice
    Registered Users Posts: 356 ✭✭Mr. Nice


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Yep, he was being a dick to them. Shooting the messenger is what lazy ***** do.

    The support for bullying people dealing with the public is staggering.

    All hail our public service overlords


  • #13
    Max Power
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    smash wrote: »
    And you can still appeal it. I've done it in the past!
    And what would you base his appeal on?


  • #14
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Joe.ie is a website for spastics. So's Her.ie.

    "Hey lads. Shifting, right? Gettin' the shift, eh? Remember Glenroe? Biddy, eh? Teasy? Mayo jersey in Sydney, eh? Mad bastards, shleppin' spuds."


  • #15
    Mr. Nice
    Registered Users Posts: 356 ✭✭Mr. Nice


    vektarman wrote: »
    Anyone else think he was childish doing this?

    How could a child have a car, and 60 quid to spare?


  • #16
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    FionnMcCool87 wrote: »
    And what would you base his appeal on?
    The fact that he was in the office taxing the car, which has now been paid!


  • #17
    jprboy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭jprboy


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    They're under no obligation to accept that many coins I believe. Other than banks, places don't have to accept more than 50 coins in one transaction or something.

    Correct.

    What is the maximum number of euro coins that a shop is obliged to accept in any single transaction?

    The following is an extract from the Economic and Monetary Union Act, 1998:
    “10(1) No person, other than the Central Bank of Ireland and such persons as may be designated by the Minister by order, shall be obliged to accept more than 50 coins denominated in euro or in cent in any single transaction.”


    http://www.centralbank.ie/paycurr/notescoin/Pages/FrequentlyAskedQuestions.aspx


  • #18
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    FionnMcCool87 wrote: »
    You're wrong. His car was parked in a public car park with no valid tax disc. Even if he had taxed it before the fine was issued, he would still be done for non display of a valid tax disc.
    Yeh and it wasn't the fault of the clerk behind the desk, so he was being a bully.


  • #19
    Max Power
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    smash wrote: »
    The fact that he was in the office taxing the car, which has now been paid!
    Doesn't matter. There wasn't a valid tax disc on his windscreen.


  • #20
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    smash wrote: »
    And you can still appeal it. I've done it in the past!

    Most appeals are not successful when it comes to non displaying of tax, unless the car has been recently purchased and the owner is waiting for the log book.

    With regards to paying in a massive amount of 1c well that is why they have coin weighing machines.


  • #21
    TheRealSquishy
    Registered Users Posts: 336 ✭✭TheRealSquishy


    smash wrote: »
    The fact that he was in the office taxing the car, which has now been paid!
    Yeah but the fine isn't for not having tax its for not displaying a tax disk, got caught myself yesterday the exact same way but there's no way out of it. Still trying to think up my petty revenge tho :P


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  • #22
    xLexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭xLexie


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Yeh and it wasn't the fault of the clerk behind the desk, so he was being a bully.
    A bully? Paying a fine makes him a bully?
    God love you.


  • #23
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    FionnMcCool87 wrote: »
    Doesn't matter. There wasn't a valid tax disc on his windscreen.
    Because he was in buying it. Which he did, so he could have appealed on that basis but he didn't.

    At the end of the day he's a complete dick!


  • #24
    Max Power
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Yeh and it wasn't the fault of the clerk behind the desk, so he was being a bully.
    A bully?

    My God you must be very precious.


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    It's been done already:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFpiL5IVyqE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ourS-m1Lf4


  • #26
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    xLexie wrote: »
    A bully? Paying a fine makes him a bully?
    God love you.

    He's not a bully but he paid it passive aggressively, with the aim of making it extremely inconvenient for the innocent person behind the counter to process it. So he is a wanker.


  • #27
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    xLexie wrote: »
    A bully? Paying a fine makes him a bully?
    God love you.
    God love YOU for thinking that maliciously handing over 6,000 1 cent coins to a clerk who did nothing to him, is just "paying a fine". But of course you don't, you're just being obtuse.


  • #28
    Morph the Cat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 368 ✭✭Morph the Cat


    Colt Shrilling Jig wrote: »
    Joe.ie is a website for spastics.

    Couldn't agree more. A website for thick generic "lads". Football, beer, cars, steak, tits, ben sherman shirts, gay jokes, wey hey!!


  • #29
    Max Power
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    Morph the Cat wrote: »
    Couldn't agree more. A website for thick generic "lads". Football, beer, cars, steak, tits, ben sherman shirts, gay jokes, wey hey!!
    wey hey!!


  • #30
    Bullseye1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,731 ✭✭✭Bullseye1


    It is legal tender I see no issue. Maybe if government bodies paid their own bills on time there wouldn't be some companies going out of business.


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  • #31
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,462 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    It didn't happen. A picture of coins does not make it reality.


  • #32
    Mr. Nice
    Registered Users Posts: 356 ✭✭Mr. Nice


    Colt Shrilling Jig wrote: »
    He's not a bully but he paid it passive aggressively, with the aim of making it extremely inconvenient for the innocent person behind the counter to process it. So he is a wanker.

    If he masturbated in the tax office he would be a wanker, unless I have the definition of the word wrong.


  • #33
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Bullseye1 wrote: »
    It is legal tender I see no issue. Maybe if government bodies paid their own bills on time there wouldn't be some companies going out of business.
    Like?


  • #34
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    This is almost my fantasy, however to round it off he should have pissed on the coins first.
    Bastards :mad:


  • #35
    olcod
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭olcod


    Ah sure its theirs, obviously :rolleyes:


  • #36
    Morph the Cat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 368 ✭✭Morph the Cat


    Bullseye1 wrote: »
    Maybe if government bodies paid their own bills on time there wouldn't be some companies going out of business.

    Rabble rabble. Give some examples.


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  • #37
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Mr. Nice wrote: »
    If he masturbated in the tax office he would be a wanker, unless I have the definition of the word wrong.

    Well, let's see what our good friend the Oxford English Dictionary has to say on the subject:
    http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/wanker wrote:
    wanker
    Pronunciation: /ˈwaŋkə/

    Definition of wanker

    noun

    British vulgar slang

    "a contemptible person (used as a generalized term of abuse)."

    Huh. Fancy that.


  • #38
    xLexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭xLexie


    Madam_X wrote: »
    God love YOU for thinking that maliciously handing over 6,000 1 cent coins to a clerk who did nothing to him, is just "paying a fine". But of course you don't, you're just being.
    God with that attitude I bet you were beating friends off ya with a big stick. Bullying because he paid for something with legal tender? If he was being really passive aggressive I'd imagine he'd have mixed the odd 5 cent coin in among it, to keep things interesting.


  • #39
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    This is almost my fantasy, however to round it off he should have pissed on the coins first.
    Bastards :mad:
    Who are the bastards? The people behind the desk? Nope, it ain't going into their bank account.


  • #40
    Bullseye1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,731 ✭✭✭Bullseye1


    Morph the Cat wrote: »
    Rabble rabble. Give some examples.

    http://www.finfacts.com/irishfinancenews/article_1016723.shtml


  • #41
    Mr. Nice
    Registered Users Posts: 356 ✭✭Mr. Nice


    Touche (fnarr, fnarr) my pedantic friend. One must, however, also logically assume that one who indulges in the "art" of **** is a wanker,

    http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/****

    From where else could the title derive it's meaning?


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  • #42
    xLexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭xLexie


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Who are the bastards? The people behind the desk? Nope, it ain't going into their bank account.
    Surely it's their job to count the money paid in fines. So, are you saying someone paying in legal tender are malicious? And that's it's "bullying" a public service worker to expect them to do their job? Ie, counting money


  • #43
    Mr. Nice
    Registered Users Posts: 356 ✭✭Mr. Nice


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Who are the bastards? The people behind the desk? Nope, it ain't going into their bank account.

    Zey vere only followink orders


  • #44
    Max Power
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    xLexie wrote: »
    Surely it's their job to count the money paid in fines. So, are you saying someone paying in legal tender are malicious? And that's it's "bullying" a public service worker to expect them to do their job? Ie, counting money
    We can't be having the poor people working in the public sector over worked counting money now can we. Poor souls.


  • #45
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    If I was standing behind the counter I would have said...

    'Absolutely no problem Sir but you'll have to stay there while I count it'

    by **** I would have made him stand there for two hours.


  • #46
    ahnowbrowncow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭ahnowbrowncow


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Who are the bastards? The people behind the desk? Nope, it ain't going into their bank account.

    You seem to be getting yourself in all sorts of arguments these days whereas previously I had found you to be quite diplomatic


  • #47
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    FionnMcCool87 wrote: »
    We can't be having the poor people working in the public sector over worked counting money now can we. Poor souls.
    Or private sector. As you know, it's obviously obnoxious to want to cause all that pointless counting... which is just going to hold up other people queuing.


  • #48
    xLexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭xLexie


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    If I was standing behind the counter I would have said...

    'Absolutely no problem Sir but you'll have to stay there while I count it'

    by **** I would have made him stand there for two hours.
    Personally if I had paid 6000 one cent coins I'd only love to stay and watch their faces, a random cough here, an outburst of numbers Tourette's there..


  • #49
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    If it was me I would make him count out every one of them in front of me, then I would count every one of them myself, then I wouldn't accept it as payment as it's not legal tender.


  • #50
    Mr. Nice
    Registered Users Posts: 356 ✭✭Mr. Nice


    FionnMcCool87 wrote: »
    We can't be having the poor people working in the public sector over worked counting money now can we. Poor souls.

    Whoever took in the coins can probably take early retirement on a full pension because of the psychological trauma and repetitive stress injury.

    Maybe this deserves a tribunal?


  • #51
    Morph the Cat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 368 ✭✭Morph the Cat


    Bullseye1 wrote: »
    http://www.finfacts.com/irishfinancenews/article_1016723.shtml

    "The Government has approved formal arrangements to reduce the payment period by central Government Departments to their business suppliers from 30 to 15 days."

    1) 30 days is standard on all invoices. 15 days is decent of them, TBH.
    2) You still haven't backed up your statement. Nowhere does that article specify that a company went out of business because of the government paying their invoices after 30 days.
    3) Article is from 2009.

    Try again.


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