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A Utah man has been cited on a charge of disorderly conduct after paying for a disputed medical bill with 2,500 pennies.
The Deseret News of Salt Lake City reports Jason West went to Basin Clinic in Vernal on May 27 prepared to dispute an outstanding $25 bill.
Assistant Vernal Police Chief Keith Campbell says that after asking staff members whether they accepted cash, West dumped 2,500 pennies on the counter and demanded that staff count them.
Campbell says the incident upset staff because pennies were strewn about the counter and floor, and West's action served "no legitimate purpose."
Police later issued the 38-year-old West a citation for disorderly conduct. That carries a fine of as much as $140. Or 14,000 pennies.
Originally posted by theRhenn
You're being missled by the media again. It's not because he paid with pennies...
"Campbell says the incident upset staff because pennies were strewn about the counter and floor, and West's action served "no legitimate purpose.""
West dumped 2,500 pennies on the counter and demanded that staff count them.
Campbell says the incident upset staff because pennies were strewn about the counter and floor...
Originally posted by aching_knuckles
Youre right; so use this as a training aid people....make sure they are rolled up nicely and speak in a kindly manner to those serving you, as you protest.
Originally posted by Greenize
What the crap!
I work in the banking industry, pennies are money! If someone comes to my window with 20000 or whatever in rolled pennies, I have to take it... it is legal tender! This truly is stupid!
Originally posted by muzzleflash
So pennies aren't legal tender anymore?
Yes? No?
This nation gets dumber by the day.
Disorderly conduct for using cash to pay for a bill.
Campbell says the incident upset staff because pennies were strewn about the counter and floor...
2006 Utah Code - 76-9-102 — Disorderly conduct.
76-9-102. Disorderly conduct.
(1) A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if:
(a) he refuses to comply with the lawful order of the police to move from a public place, or knowingly creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition, by any act which serves no legitimate purpose; or
(b) intending to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he:
(i) engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous, or threatening behavior;
(ii) makes unreasonable noises in a public place;
(iii) makes unreasonable noises in a private place which can be heard in a public place; or
(iv) obstructs vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
(2) "Public place," for the purpose of this section, means any place to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access and includes but is not limited to streets, highways, and the common areas of schools, hospitals, apartment houses, office buildings, transport facilities, and shops.
(3) Disorderly conduct is a class C misdemeanor if the offense continues after a request by a person to desist. Otherwise it is an infraction.
Amended by Chapter 20, 1999 General Session
Originally posted by SonicInfinity
Originally posted by aching_knuckles
Youre right; so use this as a training aid people....make sure they are rolled up nicely and speak in a kindly manner to those serving you, as you protest.
Don't try and compare slamming pennies on a counter and degrading others for your own amusement to "fight the man" to police brutality. That is ridiculous.edit on 6/6/2011 by SonicInfinity because: Added response and fixed tags
Originally posted by ladyjem
reply to post by Greenize
I agree wholeheartedly. I've been cursed and had things thrown at me as well. Never once did I feel it necessary to call the local police. People are jerks at time, but if the law intervened every time someone acted the jerk, then no one would be walking around with a clean police record.