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Maine Contractor Drops 12,000 Pounds of Coins for $20K Fine

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Maine contractor Kirk Sherman turned a $20,000 Palermo ordinance fine into performance art, unloading 12,000 pounds of coins at the town office—a literal answer to 'Can you pay large fines in pennies?' and 'What happens if you pay with coins?' Sherman and partner Dusty Haskell, fined for building a lakeside road, delivered their payment with the dry note: 'Here’s your payment, good luck.'

That 12,000-pound mountain of coins, delivered by Sherman, left town officials debating whether to issue a 'handling fee' as clerks faced the Sisyphean task of counting. Trending searches like 'Do towns have to accept coins?' and 'Weirdest fine payments ever' now collide with the bizarre spectacle of municipal staff arm-wrestling buckets of nickels. 'We find it very unprofessional on their part,' grumbled Selectman Robert Kurek, as if bracing for a future coin-based currency coup.

Palermo’s town office now holds enough loose change from Sherman’s fine to tip a dump truck, briefly making it Maine’s heaviest municipal treasury per square foot.

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