Your thoughts?

[wig]

So a fella in S.F. goes in to pay his $10.00 parking ticket. He offers the clerk his credit card but is told he will have to pay a $1.75 processing fee. He believes this is ridiculous and says as much.

He leaves. (He does have a point. San Francisco is one of the most tech sophisticated cities in the world. The court certainly has access to CC processing and they're merely charging a fee because they "can".)

The fellow returns with $10.00 in pennies, wrapped. Not loose, but wrapped. From a bank. He offers this to the clerk. The clerk refuses to accept. The fellow protests. He claims his payment in change is a protest to their refusal to accept payment from the Credit Card without a significant surcharge.

The fellow, incensed at the court's refusal to accept his payment is asked to leave. He does and is escorted out of the building by two court officers. As they leave the building and enter the "foyer" area where camera coverage is less complete, the man is grabbed from behind by one of the court officers and choked out. He loses consciousness and literally ***** himself. The film that is available shows that at no time does the man make any physical attack or threat toward the officers and they initiate the contact and choke.

After the man loses consciousness, the officers arrest him.

The man is now suing the court.

I suspect he will turn a $10.00 parking fine which he owes the city into a very large sum that the city owes him unless the court officers can somehow demonstrate that he initiated some kind of attack that required them to choke him out, but the video really doesn't bear that out.

Interesting when S.F. eats their own...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/91281c...943c56d/ss_man-choked,-defecates-himself.html

 

[Sarge]

I think this was actually in Michigan. Either way, kid is gonna be rich. Even if he was talking ****, the officer has no right to assault him in that way. Pennies are perfectly legal tender in America still, far as I can tell. Just more abuse from a government that wishes to divide us, take our liberties and steal our money.

 

[Troglodyte]

I’d have to be in line to save a lot more than $1.75 to be choked out and **** myself.

 

[Steelerfan]

I went to pay a speeding ticket (happened on the Pennsylvania Turnpike) online and they charged a fee higher than that ($2.50 or close to it) to pay with a debit card. If I had clicked "credit" I don't think there would have been a fee. But I fat-fingered the debit option and got screwed.

 

[Steeltime]

I’d have to be in line to save a lot more than $1.75 to be choked out and **** myself.

Jesus, Trog, your response is just plain dumb. The guy was correct in every respect - he went to pay the ******* $10 fine, and is being ripped off by a bullshit "charge" for using a debit card. Arco charges 35 cents to use a debit card at their gas stations, for a $40 fill-up. That works out to less than 1%.

If the ******* at City Hall billed the guy 1% for using his debit card, I am pretty sure he would not have an issue.

So he gets $10 in pennies from a bank to make a point. Good for him. Government employees are very, very often the laziest, least-productive, spoiled, and customer-dismissive employees in the nation.

So he deserved to be escorted out of the building after the dumbfuck behind the counter won't take his money? And then he deserves to be choked into unconsciousness???

And the ******* lesson you take from this story is, "Hey, $1.75 is not worth it"?? Seriously??

 

[IndySteel]

We get charged a 5% fee when we accept customer payments by credit card. We add that charge to their invoice. Most of them wire transfer or still send checks.

 

[Ironcitysteelers]

 

[thesteelcity]

to make a point, sometimes, you have to get choked out. Seriously, that's messed up and hope he gets paid.

 

[Smash]

Government employees are very, very often the laziest, least-productive, spoiled, and customer-dismissive employees in the nation.

From the dog catcher to the DMV, House to the Senate, up and down the bureaucratic food chain, there is little to no accountability in government. Why Trump is president, and the rule of law is making a long awaited come back. I hope this fella gets the best lawyer and sues everyone, and they hang his stained shorts behind the customer service desk below the sign that reads "Why yes, we do accept pennies"

 

[IndySteel]

I would call that guy a tightass but apparently that's not the case.

 

[Troglodyte]

Jesus, Trog, your response is just plain dumb. The guy was correct in every respect - he went to pay the ******* $10 fine, and is being ripped off by a bullshit "charge" for using a debit card. Arco charges 35 cents to use a debit card at their gas stations, for a $40 fill-up. That works out to less than 1%.

If the ******* at City Hall billed the guy 1% for using his debit card, I am pretty sure he would not have an issue.

So he gets $10 in pennies from a bank to make a point. Good for him. Government employees are very, very often the laziest, least-productive, spoiled, and customer-dismissive employees in the nation.

So he deserved to be escorted out of the building after the dumbfuck behind the counter won't take his money? And then he deserves to be choked into unconsciousness???

And the ******* lesson you take from this story is, "Hey, $1.75 is not worth it"?? Seriously??

IT.
WAS.
A.
*******.
JOKE.

JFC, this is an uptight lot!

 

[oneforthebus]

I don't like to rush to judgment without hearing what's being said...did he scream out obscenities or threaten them in some way? It's possible. There's usually more to these stories than meets the eye. But on initial viewing it looks bad for the cop.

 

[ark steel]

I've been choked out for a lot less than $1.75

 

[Ironcitysteelers]

I've been choked out for a lot less than $1.75

****. I’m sure you pay for it.

 

[Spike]

I’d have to be in line to save a lot more than $1.75 to be choked out and **** myself.

I have to agree - this guy makes a big scene over some $1.75 spare change?

I tip my bar girls more than that just for serving me a beer

 

[deljzc]

And the left complain when I want to charge a 2% surcharge on wire transfers to Mexico to pay for the wall.

Yet we can charge a 17.5% surcharge on parking tickets to pay for them with a credit card or refuse legal tender because it's inconvenient to count.

Tells you how ****** up the priorities are in this country.

 

[hamster]

Oh thanks for re-opening this wound. I got a parking ticket in front of my house for a street cleaning violation. It was the first cleaning in Spring, and I was 10 minutes late moving my car. When I inspected my ticket, the charge was $17.00, but the ticket was for $45.00. I took it to the police station, wondering why my ticket was in excess of $17.00, and I was told that the rest were hidden taxes imposed by the state to fund "certain programs". It was a shakedown. A ******* SHAKEDOWN. Wealth redistribution. Probably funding an abortion clinic in Center City Philadelphia. Yeah, governments suck, and why some want to grow them is insane.

 

[Troglodyte]

I have to agree - this guy makes a big scene over some $1.75 spare change?

I tip my bar girls more than that just for serving me a beer

And it’s not like the powers that be are going to suffer because he paid in pennies. That’s one where you share your disgust and turn the page. It’s not worth $1.75 of your time.

 

[Ironcitysteelers]

Actually pennies are more valuable then the printed value. Just saying.

 

[BLITZ]

rough day, after all that He must have been pooped.

 

[Steelr4evr]

Actually pennies are more valuable then the printed value. Just saying.

The rare or older ones are. Some of those wheat pennies are worth some money depending on the condition.

The guy was making a point about the government. At the end of the end unfortunately a lot of times it's us against them. They hold most of the power.

 

[Stewey]

IT.
WAS.
A.
*******.
JOKE.

JFC, this is an uptight lot!

To be fair Trog, many of your posts are a joke therefore hard to distinguish.