Colorado college student tries paying speeding ticket with bucket of change www.privateofficer.com
FORT COLLINS, CO April 8 2012 - A Colorado college student says he was short-changed by the city of Fort Collins when it refused to accept his bucket of change.
Ted Nischan tried to use his nearly 50 pound bucket of loose change to pay a $160 speeding ticket.
Strapped for cash and two days from losing his license, he first tried to pay by credit card, but the municipal court didn’t have a working credit card machine.
“So I went back home, grabbed my savings, my change here, went back in and tried to pay it. They would not accept it,” he said.
The court told him it would be a waste of taxpayer money to count it all, even though his bank already confirmed it was the right amount.
“It’s a large amount of coin and so what we would have to do is count it by hand not once, but twice, to assure we had the right amount there,” said Kim Newcomer with the city of Fort Collins.
He looked at other options like a coin machines, but they take a percentage. His bank told him it would take a week to cash his change.
“I didn’t have a week to wait. I would have had a suspended license,” Nischan said.
He was forced to dip into his college financial aid to pay the ticket.
“I was trying to pay the fine. It’s their job to accept the fine,” he said
Source: KDVR/CNN
