Man’s Electric Bill is Just Pennies
An Illinois man is fed up with high electric rates, which he says jumped nearly 200% in one month. To show his displeasure, he’s going to pay his bill in pennies. 52,662 of them.
Robert Hancock made arrangements with a local bank to get the coins and mail the money for him, but the postage is going to be a bit steep. In order to make a point, he’s going to spend $50 in postage costs to mail his $526.62 electric bill.
I wonder how happy his neighbors will be when their bills go up again next month because the power company passed on the cost of dealing with over 300 pounds of pennies.
Source: Associated Press
Posted: March 8th, 2007 under Nutty News.
Comments: 1
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Comment from Anita
Time: March 8, 2007, 10:01 pm
I can see it now:
“Hey Intern - see those boxes? Take them down to Wal-mart and throw it all in Coinstar”
His electric bills probably went up from electronically counting and recounting so many pennies.
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