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February 20, 2008
Stick it to the man
Money_07 - Dollars, originally uploaded by Laurel714.
This man was rather generous. If I had wanted to do this, I would've given them a big pile of unrolled coins:
The Knox County Trustee's Office has some extra spare change on hand, after one Knox County couple paid a property tax bill almost entirely in coins.
"I went, 'Oh please, no,'" Angie Fields said of the idea from her husband, Brian.
Brian came up with the idea last year and followed through this year.
"All of our elected officials pretty much act childish," he said. "I figured I would do a little bit, too."
His childish act: sending his wife to pay their property tax bill with $1,700 in golden Sacagawea Dollars.
Now, a few years ago I rolled up about $100 in various loose change and brought it to my bank. They made me write my name on each roll of coins, and my account number, before they would accept it for deposit. If they wanted to find a way to keep people from taking change to the bank, they did it.
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Posted at February 20, 2008 02:55 PM