Paying Someone $23,500 In Loose Coins That Weigh Over Three Tons Is The Ultimate "Fuck You" Move

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CBS News- A Larimer County judge ruled late on Monday that a Northern Colorado welding company acted "maliciously and in bad faith" when it paid a $23,500 settlement to a subcontractor all in coins that ended up weighing more than three tons.

Judge Joseph Findley ordered JMF Enterprises and its owner John Frank to pay a subcontractor, Fired Up Fabrication, by a more conventional method like a check, and further ordered the company to pay Fired Up Fabrication's attorneys fees and costs, with the Judge writing that JMF's coin stunt delayed the case being closed, and was intended to annoy and harass Fired Up Fabrication.

The case began when Fired Up Fabrication said it acted as a subcontractor for JMF,  but the company refused to pay it. The sub filed a lawsuit that went to arbitration. The two sides agreed to settle, with JMF paying its subcontractor $23,500.

But when it came time to pay, JMF sent a flatbed truck loaded with a specially constructed box jammed with coins that weighed 6,500 pounds. The box was filled with loose quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. JMF attempted to have the box delivered in August to Fired Up Fabrication's attorney, Danielle Beem, at her downtown Denver office.

This may surprise you guys, but I do not know much about the day-to-day business happenings in Northern Colorado. Which means I don't know if JMF Enterprises is filled with a bunch of hardos, if Fired Up Fabrication is run by dicks, or if neither/both are true. But goddamn do I RE2PECT the pettiness that comes with paying off a court ordered debt in nothing but coins that is so big, they gotta use a scale that they weigh the whales with to see how heavy it is.

Not only that, but those sick fucks at JMF took it a step further!

The defendants apparently obtained the coins in various denominations in neatly organized boxes but then took the extra step of removing the coins from the boxes and dumping them loosely and randomly into the large metal container.

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Jeeeeeeeesus that is an absurd photo. Three tons of anything is a lot, unless you are talking Barstool bloggers. In that case, it's probably like dozen of us combined. But still, collecting exactly $23,500 worth of coins, peeling countless rolls, then delivering them is truly the work of someone hellbent on vengeance to the levels not seen since Lucky Number Slevin (which is an underrated flick with a great cast that you should watch if you haven't seen it yet).

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Anyway, back to Colorado.  If I was the judge, I'd personally let it fly considering it usually takes some pretty fucked up shit for someone to track down $23,500 worth of coins let alone unwrap them all and then deliver them on a flatbed. However if The Honorable Judge Findley is looking to dole out some real justice, he should not only make JMF pay back the entire $23,500 by check but he should also make whoever was came up with this coin scheme count out every single cent while wrapping them up. Actually that's probably worse than the death penalty and goes against the Geneva Convention. But if he went through with it and the story went viral, I guarantee it would be the last time someone sent a shitload of coins to pay off a debt to someone they didn't like.