It's the kind of thing most of us have thought about. Maybe even contemplated.
Those of us who get a bit heavy-footed when behind the wheel, that is.
But we don't follow through. Maybe we think we'll get into trouble. Maybe we think it's just too much trouble. Or maybe we are just grown-ups.
But one guy in Frisco, Texas, went for it.
Brett Sanders was going a touch too fast for local authorities. The police pulled him over and gave him a ticket for driving 39 mph in a 30 mph zone.
Sanders wasn't happy about it. As far as he was concerned, he wasn't really hurting anyone. So he went to court and lost.
The fine for this offense was more than $200. That didn't make him any happier.
But tickets must be paid. So Sanders decided to get a little creative.
He filled five buckets with pennies. Nearly 22,000 pennies in all.
Then he took his load of Lincolns to Frisco's Municipal Building and dumped them off at the payment window. He even had the buckets stenciled with slogans such as "policing for profit" and "extortion money."
Of course, the world being what it is today, the whole thing ended up as a video posted last week on YouTube.
In the video, the clerk doesn't seem all that happy to have her counter flooded with the smallest unit of change. But Sanders' payment was dutifully accepted and taken to a local CoinStar machine to be counted.
Turns out Sanders overpaid the city by nearly $8. But he let that slide since the whole thing was worth it.
Sanders seems to be getting quite a lot of support for this. And we understand why. It's funny. And it's something of a fantasy for many folks.
But make no mistake-this isn't a protest against injustice. It's more the work of a petulant child who got caught and didn't like it.
Sanders was speeding. It's against the law. It really doesn't matter what he thinks about it. He's not entitled to decide which laws to obey. He took his chances. He should have taken his punishment like an adult.
The police did their job. The clerk who had to deal with Sanders' pennies also did her job. She's the one who had to put up with Sanders' childish behavior and she had no part in serving the ticket.
The fine wasn't "extortion" as Sanders would have his admirers believe. But his choice was just a juvenile reaction to what should have been handled in an adult manner.
