Traffic Ticket Revenge: Pennies Used To Pay $212 Fine [Video]


When Brett Sanders gets a traffic ticket, he also gets revenge with a couple of buckets of pennies. The Frisco, Texas man was furious when he was pulled over and cited for speeding in a residential neighborhood. He was ultimately ticket by a local cop for going nine miles per hour over the posted speed limit and was so mad that rather than just pay the traffic ticket, he fought it in court.

Unfortunately for Sanders, all of the fighting in the world didn’t get him off the hook for the traffic ticket. A jury of his peers sided with the police officer that pulled him over, and he was ordered to pay the speeding ticket.

“I was on my residential street when I got a ticket for going nine miles over the speed limit,” he told CNN. “I thought it was unfair. I did not injure anyone, and I did not endanger anyone.”

Out of legal options to avoid paying the fine, he decided to get his revenge by paying the traffic ticket in the most obnoxious way imaginable. That’s why he ended up paying Frisco city with a whole bunch of pennies. Almost two buckets full of pennies, to be precise.

The Texas man also recorded his spectacular revenge and posted the video (starring over 22,000 pennies) to YouTube, reports CNN.

Check it out.

All in all, Sanders’ fine was $212. His original traffic ticket was $79.90 and court costs were $132.10. He loaded up the pennies in two five-gallon buckets that he painted black and adorned with the words “Extortion Money” and “Policing For Profit,” then he headed over to the courthouse.

When he got there, he told the clerk he was there to pay a traffic ticket, then asked her if the court accepted “exact change.” He told her that he had to run out to his truck to grab some, and he returned only to pay his traffic ticket with thousands of pennies, complete with shredded up paper coin rolls.

Rather than leaving them in the buckets or respectfully giving them to the clerk, he enhanced his revenge by dumping the pennies in a massive pile on the counter and the floor as the clerk feebly protested his actions.

Sanders didn’t waste any time lingering in the courthouse after paying his traffic ticket in pennies; he walked out while telling the discomfited clerk to mail him his receipt.

Apparently, Sanders included more pennies than were necessary in his traffic fine revenge buckets, because the end of his YouTube video features a recorded message from the court informing him that there was some change waiting for him.

“There was an overpayment of $7.81,”

He decided to allow the city to keep it.

Overall, a city official said it took two coin counting machines three hours to count the thousands of pennies the disgruntled citizen used to pay his traffic ticket.

His revenge video has gone viral, and while some people thought the city got what it deserved, a lot seemed to think that paying a traffic ticket in pennies is childish and immature.

The city spokeswoman says that the city will be keeping the change.

Regardless of what social media seems to think about the man’s actions, he seemed to get a pretty big kick out of getting his revenge by paying his traffic fine with pennies, feeling as though he’d been wronged because he was subjected to having the law enforced upon him.

After all, he never denied that he was speeding when he was ticketed. He just felt as though he shouldn’t have to pay the fine because he “wasn’t endangering anyone” when he was going nine miles an hour over the speed limit in a residential area.

What do you think? Was this a funny, fitting prank against government tyranny run amok? Or was this just a case of an entitled guy throwing a fit? Let us know what you think about Brett Sanders getting his revenge by paying his traffic ticket in pennies in the comments.

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