The paying with coins case

It was an attempt to gain financially by a sketchy element of society, plain and simple!

Thankfully common sense prevailed

Never knew that too. Here is link to background.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0620/1519549-shop-cleared-of-discrimination-over-68-payment-in-coins/

I heard of this from a friend who worked in the motor-tax office back in the late 90's. He used to relish the day when a cantankerous customer would come in to pay their tax and arrears and decide that it was a good time to crack out the jar of chump-change from 1981 (complete with chewing-gum residue).

He used to see it coming, so he'd tell them to load up the desk and little bay under the screen with coins and he'd start by pulling out the most common coin and make little stacks. He'd continue till he got to a count of 50 of that coin and effectively then refuse to count any further, then close down the blind on the counter window and take his tea-break.

Amusingly, almost every single customer would collect each and every coin (with the hope of finding some shop being gullible enough to take them). But one day a particular customer decided to leave his 1p and 2p coins in a massive pile on the counter. None of the staff wanted to touch them even after a day of sitting there, so they called the contract cleaners who had much initial excitement at the prospect of so much cash, only to find that there was about 5kgs of copper and promptly loaded them into a wheeled mop-bucket to get them out. 🤣

I can’t help but think this was all planned from start to finish - fair dues to the shop taking this bullshit - I don’t think I would have had the patience

Grifting parasites like these have feed off the country for too long, good to see these ones getting stopped

How the F did it even get that far ,? a google search should have put a end to the case .

any solicitor who took that case should be ashamed of themselves and have their competence looked at

Were the kids doing the weekly shop or something? 68 quid.

Smaller shops might be glad of them if they were bagged up. They often have scales if they're depositing change.

Kids from certain groups sent into shops regularly hoping that the shop assistant will turn a blind eye to the shortfall

When I worked as trainee accounrant in a very well known motor dealer about 20 years ago, a guy paid for his new car in coins. This guy would also be well known through his businesses, which would generate a lot of coins in its activities.

Approx 50,000 coins, and they weren't copper coins either! Car was the guts of 100k euro.

Money arrived in a van with some of his staff members, someone made a call to the bank who sent another van to collect it.

My first introduction to Money laundering. Of course we could have said no due to volume of coin, but he was a repeat customer and apparently this happened a good few times.

"The children's father filed a complaint accusing the unidentified supermarket of a breach of the Equal Status Act 2000 by refusing service to the children on 22 December 2023 because they were members of the Traveller Community."

Enough said!

The family’s position, as presented by the children’s mother at last month’s hearing, was that the children were "refused service at the supermarket because they were members of the Travelling Community".

What hope do these kids have when the parents are basically teaching them on how to be grifters...

At least the Adjudicator was able to dismiss this carry on.

Not a single poster on this thread defending anyone at all.