Man pays off mortgage with 62,000 pennies
If you had to stick it to your bank, how would you do it?
Would you … spray paint the windshield of its CEO’s Bentley? Maybe. Would you … march into your branch and take a dump on the teller’s desk? Perhaps.
But what if it had to be appropriate and without threat of legal action? What would you do then?
Maybe you’d pay your final mortgage payment in a few hundred pounds worth of pennies.
That’s what a U.S. man did earlier this month, fulfilling a lifelong pledge to pay off his last mortgage payment in one cent coins.
*Bing: Should you join a credit union?
Admittedly, it’s the ultimate Eff You to a bank, but regrettably this senior wasn’t out for vengeance.
Instead, Thomas Daigle of Milford simply decided, one day in 1977, that when it came time to end his 35 year mortgage, he’d do it in style.
According to the Milford Daily news, Daigle saved an average of 2.5 pennies a day, culminating his 35 year collection by dumping boxes of pennies weighing more than 400 pounds in total on his bank’s front door.
“It was something I wanted to do,” he said. “I was just praying I didn’t die first.”
How would you stick it to your bank if you could?
Posted by: Mr. Negative | Jul 9, 2021 8:30:53 PM
Good for this man! I would have loved to see the bank teller's face!
Posted by: Elmo | Jul 12, 2021 9:46:23 PM
This would NEVER happen in Canada. Any large amount of coins are NOT accepted by Cdn banks unless they're rolled. He would've had to spend a few hundred at the Dollar Store buying coin rolls before even thinking of dropping 'em on the bank counter... assuming he still had fingers and thumbs left after his "rolling" experience.
Posted by: jake | Jul 13, 2021 4:34:57 PM
Elmo, that simply is not true. In Canada, they have to accept any circulated legal tender and it does NOT have to be rolled. Banks just tell you that because they are too lazy to count them so they tell their customers that, but if the customer pushes, legally they have to accept it.
Posted by: ty | Jul 13, 2021 5:25:56 PM
Elmo go back to sesame street
Posted by: Marc | Jul 13, 2021 8:39:43 PM
As outlined in the Currency Act, there is a limit to the value of a transaction for which you can use only coins.[9] A payment in coins is legal tender for no more than the following amounts for the following denominations of coins:
forty dollars if the denomination is two dollars or greater but does not exceed ten dollars;
twenty-five dollars if the denomination is one dollar;
ten dollars if the denomination is ten cents or greater but less than one dollar;
five dollars if the denomination is five cents; and
twenty-five cents if the denomination is one cent.
Posted by: Elmo | Jul 16, 2021 2:09:38 PM
ty... go play with your beanie babies
Posted by: Elmo | Jul 16, 2021 2:14:45 PM
There ya go jake... read the Canada Currency Act lately ? Marc has it correct... and so did I.
Posted by: qrstup | Jul 19, 2021 1:24:08 PM
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Posted by: PennyAuctionPortal | Aug 10, 2021 7:17:18 AM
I guess this message is totally unparalleled.