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

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    #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.


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    #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?


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


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


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    #35
    olcod
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭olcod


    Ah sure its theirs, obviously :rolleyes:


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    #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.


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    #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.


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    #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.


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    #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


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    #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


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    #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


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    #44
    Max Power
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    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.


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    #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.


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    #46
    ahnowbrowncow
    Registered Users Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭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


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    #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.


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    #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..


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    #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.


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    #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?


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    #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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    #52
    Max Power
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    Where To wrote: »
    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.
    Yes it is legal tender. They just don't have to accept it.


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    #53
    Chuck Stone
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    xLexie wrote: »
    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..

    You'd quickly get pissed off I'm sure if it was me because I'd do it with a skip in my step and a chirpy smile.

    I'd kill you with kindness.


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    #54
    LizT
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    xLexie wrote: »
    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..

    That's just being malicious now, the person working there had nothing to do with the fine being issued in the first place


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    #55
    Morph the Cat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 368 ✭✭Morph the Cat


    xLexie wrote: »
    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..

    You sound like a complete knob.

    If I got fined €60 for not displaying a tax disc - which would be 100% my own fault - I'd just pay the fine - because I'm not a bellend. It's called taking responsibility for my actions. It's how society works - nobody screwed this guy over - he wasn't "getting revenge" as he put it; nobody did anything to him that wasn't legally warranted. He's just a petty little d*ck - plain & simple.


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    #56
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    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

    Not all people working in these positions are employees of the public service (not that it makes a difference) some are on internships or schemes. Still they are being paid to provide a public service to all and sundry, but I reckon Mr. Big Slong went in with the money counted in the appropriate bank bags and if he did not, sure well it is just as easy to weigh the coins and bag them and ruin his not so cunning plan.


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    #57
    Mr. Nice
    Registered Users Posts: 356 ✭✭Mr. Nice


    Madam_X wrote: »
    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.

    Because we all know that speedy, efficient service is priority number one in the public service.


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    #58
    Where To
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    FionnMcCool87 wrote: »
    Yes it is legal tender. They just don't have to accept it.
    6000 1c coins isn't legal tender any more than 6000 mallard ducks is.


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    #59
    Max Power
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    Where To wrote: »
    6000 1c coins isn't legal tender any more than 6000 mallard ducks is.
    So a 1c coin is not legal tender? How do you come to that conclusion?


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    #60
    xLexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭xLexie


    Where To wrote: »
    6000 1c coins isn't legal tender any more than 6000 mallard ducks is.
    But if it wasn't, did they accept it and if they didnt accept it, what's the problem?


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    #61
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    FionnMcCool87 wrote: »
    So a 1c coin is not legal tender? How do you come to that conclusion?
    One 1c coin is legal tender, 6000 1c coins isn't.


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