Council refuses £1,299.80

Generali

JayScottGreenspan wrote: »

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

You'd think he could look up what constitutes Legal Tender before going to such extremes.

Gorgeous_George

If I was in his business, I'd shy away from publicity.

GG

worried_jim

I hope his victims all read this and decide to pay their fines in copper aswell. sucker !

JonnyBravo

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

I guess they didn't get you to do the "big adding up sums" though eh Snooze, just the moving of the big heavy bags?!
You big butch lad you.

:rolleyes: Idiot.

thelawnet

JonnyBravo wrote: »

I guess they didn't get you to do the "big adding up sums" though eh Snooze, just the moving of the big heavy bags?!
You big butch lad you.

:rolleyes: Idiot.

People that work with money seem unable to handle basic sums or spot obvious arithmetic errors. I went to the off-licence yesterday to buy some beer. £1.89 per bottle it said on the shelf. Rung up at £4.47.

"Er excuse me", says I, "£1.89 * 3 is not £4.47"

Bloke behind the till looks blank. Repeat it a couple of times, he eventually starts playing with the till/computer. Eventually it turns out they are 4 for £5. So I bought 8 instead.

Snooze

:eek: :eek:

I knew something didn't sound right when I made that calculation. I'd actually done 7.2kg x 650 to get the 4.68 tonne figure but of course now that brain is awake obviously the zero from the 650 should have been dropped because it's 7.2kg for £20 not £2. I am usually good at maths too so I'm currently feeling ultra stupid that I made myself look like a NED on a public forum :rotfl: .

Even with half a tonne, I'm surprised that the trolley didn't collapse :eek: .

Rob

mewbie_2

I hope someone reports him for nicking a trolley. We have found someone more hated than bankers.

besonders1

what a fool, It must have cost him hundreds just to put on a fancy show of pennies. I would have loved to see his face when it got rejected. BTW I would accept the pennies anytime if he'd give them away LOL.

thanmuwa

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.

The standard SI method of naming 10^6 (1,000,000) of anything is mega, so it would more likely be a megagramme rather than a kilo-kilogramme. Sounds pretty cool.... "That must weigh a megagramme!" is a phrase I must shoehorn into conversation sometime....