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The E-Sylum: Volume 26, Number 44, October 29, 2023, Article 31

COLORADO COIN CAPER

Daryl Haynor passed along this story from Colorado about (yet another) revenge coin payment stunt. Thanks. Does everyone who tries this think it's their very own original idea? -Editor

  Colorado Coin Caper

A Colorado judge chided a welding company that tried to pay off a $23,500 settlement with a subcontractor by sending the money in loose coins that weighed 3 tons (2.7 metric tonnes).

Judge Joseph Findley ruled Monday that JMF Enterprises acted maliciously and in bad faith by delivering a custom made metal box containing the coins that was too heavy to be carried in the freight elevator at the offices for Fired Up Fabrications' lawyers, let alone with the forklift required to carry it, according to court filings.

Findley ordered JMF to pay by a more conventional method like a check. He also said JMF would now have to write a larger one — to pay an extra estimated $8,092 to cover legal fees for the ensuing dispute over whether it had the right to pay in coins.

One of the subcontractor's lawyers, Danielle Beem, told Denver's KCNC-TV, which first reported the judge's order, that the coin payment was a symbolic middle finger.

Findley said photographic evidence showed JMF apparently took the extra step of taking coins separated in boxes by denomination and then dumping them loosely and randomly into the container.

To read the complete articles, see:
Colorado judge chides company that tried to pay $23,500 settlement in coins (https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/colorado-judge-chides-company-pay-23500-settlement-coins-104285193)
Colorado judge says company acted "maliciously and in bad faith" in coin stunt (https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-judge-coin-stunt-jmf-enterprises-welding-company-fired-up-fabrication/)
A welding business that tried to pay a $23,500 bill with coins is being blasted by a Colorado judge for acting in 'bad faith' (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/welding-business-tried-pay-23-021128061.html)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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