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- From: jon@sed.stel.com (Jon Radel)
- Newsgroups: dc.general
- Subject: Re: Dulles Toll Road
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.003823.9283@sed.stel.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 00:38:23 GMT
- References: <23813@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Aug27.010120.29762@openage.openage.com> <6104@npri6.npri.com>
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- In article <6104@npri6.npri.com> eric@npri6.npri.com (Eric Williams) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug27.010120.29762@openage.openage.com>, ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host) writes:
- >> dianne@ERA.COM (Dianne Schroeder-Hansen) writes:
- >>
- >> >pay your toll with pennies instead of a quarter. If
- >> >enough people feel strongly enough to pay with pennies, it should make a
- >>
- >> There are signs saying "no pennies" at the toll booths
- >> The best you can do is pay with big bills or nickels.
- >
- >According to a friend of mine, pennies are acceptible, it's just they
- >don't *want* you to use them (must take a long time to chug through
- >them). Not that I approve of this particular act of civil disobedience...
-
- Actually, last I looked, in an obscure section of the U.S. Code that covers
- the legal tender status of U.S. coinage, it states that anything over 24
- pennies in a single transaction does not have to be accepted.... Not that
- anybody pays any attention to that usually. (I think it's 24 pennies,
- $5 in nickels, and unlimited quantities of "silver".)
-
- --Jon Radel
-