UNC Charlotte Bro Pays Parking Tickets With 11,000 Pennies

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A pattern of illegal parking for a local college student now has him protesting what his fine money’s being used for. And his way to send a message? Paying in pennies.

Stephen Coyle knows he broke the rules. “You parked in the visitor parking,” Coyle said. “I parked in the two decks beside that.”

He’s tallied up multiple citations on UNCC’s campus this summer, but it lead to a shocking discovery. State law only lets the school keep 20% of the fines.

“Eighty-percent of your tickets have gone to fund other schools,” Coyle said.

The funding goes to other public schools in the area, which is why he’s been handing out flyers to students.

“Most of the time they have no idea where their money is going,” Coyle said. “And when they do find out, they’re pretty upset.”

So when he paid his $110 fine he decided to let them count.

“Getting 11,000 pennies isn’t very easy,” Coyle said.

Coyle went to three different banks to get five $25 boxes containing 2500 pennies. That got him to reach his total of 11,000.

“And I brought them in three separate buckets for them,” Coyle said.

He sat there while two workers counted every single penny.

“It took them approximately three hours and 40 minutes,” Coyle said.

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Not the first guy to do this and won’t be the last, but I love it every time. The ultimate Fuck You move. Lugging five boxes stuffed full of pennies to the parking ticket office and making the stupid assholes there count all of them by hand.

Just can’t think of anything worse than counting pennies 1 by 1 for close to 4 hours, getting that disgusting copper coin smell all over your hands. The worrrssstttt.

And yes for the record I’m a huge fan of law and order, you can’t just have people parking all over the place like it’s the god damn Wild West, there needs to be some sort of punishment for it and this bro fully admits he was in the wrong. That’s all perfectly good in theory, but in real life, nothing pisses you the fuck off more than getting a parking ticket. Two groups of people who deserve all the “fuck yous” you can give them: Tow truck drivers (can I get an amen Britt McHenry?) and parking ticket meter maids. Fuck em. Count my pennies bitch.