Council refuses £1,299.80

Brian_Bullocks

Just a story that brought a smile to my face :j Birmingham car clamper tries to pay £1,300 debt in pennies.....pennies were only regarded as legal tender up to a value of 20p.




http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2009/02/18/birmingham-car-clamper-tries-to-pay-1-300-debt-in-pennies-65233-22950543/

chambta

He's a crook by the sounds of it.

matbe

Ah a clamper looking for sympathy.

He can find it between !!!!!! and syphilis in the dictionary.

Snooze

I'm wondering how the hell he moved it? I used to work in a cash centre for a major bank and know that a bag of 1ps (£20 worth in a bag) is around 7.2kg which gives you a decent work-out when you've got to move a lot of them around. £1300 in 1ps is 4.68 tonnes - hardly the half a tonne they claim in the article. He'd need an HGV to move them. :rolleyes: Idiot.

Rob

rl290

What an idiot...

Urco

Snooze wrote: »

I'm wondering how the hell he moved it? I used to work in a cash centre for a major bank and know that a bag of 1ps (£20 worth in a bag) is around 7.2kg which gives you a decent work-out when you've got to move a lot of them around. £1300 in 1ps is 4.68 tonnes - hardly the half a tonne they claim in the article. He'd need an HGV to move them. :rolleyes: Idiot.

Rob

Crikey, it's no wonder the major banks are going bust with maths like that. If £20 of pennies is 7.2kg, then £100 of pennies is 36kg, and £1300 of pennies is 462kg. Theres 1000kg in a tonne by the way.
What i want to know is where did he get so many pennies, hopefully from disgruntled customers of his wheel clamping business.

lostinrates

Urco wrote: »

Theres 1000kg in a tonne .....

I always get confused between tonnes and tons I can never remember.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

I always get confused between tonnes and tons I can never remember.

Tonne = 1,000kg = 1,000,000g. Metric measure. Could be called the kilo kilogram.
Ton* = 2,240lb = 1018kg. Imperial measure.

*That's the UK ton, aka the 'long ton'. US ton, aka the 'short ton' = 2,000lbs.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Tonne = 1,000kg = 1,000,000g. Metric measure. Could be called the kilo kilogram.
Ton* = 2,240lb = 1018kg. Imperial measure.

*That's the UK ton, aka the 'long ton'. US ton, aka the 'short ton' = 2,000lbs.

LOL, I used to have it on a piece of paper stuch to the inside of the cab of my lorry to double check I could load what/who I wanted to whiule staying under weight limits. I have a blind spot over understanding weight limits, and with laws having changed since I drove a lorry I'm having a really hard time working out what I should go for now.:o

Gorgeous_George

... and a pennyweight is 1.555 grammes.

This calculator makes 130,000 pennies weigh 462.8KG.

GG

JayScottGreenspan

Is this guy's life devoted to demonstrating what a wa**er he is?