Pennies.

[Cringer]

Anyone ever think pennies should just be done away with? I have thought that before, it is obvious that if you use more then 4 at a time to payt for something people get pissed.

Example:

READINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Sometimes a penny for your thoughts isn't a good thing.

Readington Township school officials gave 29 students detention after they used pennies to pay for their $2 lunches.

Superintendent Jorden Schiff said it started out as a prank. But as the eighth-graders began to get in trouble for taking up so much time, it turned into a protest about Thursday's shortened lunch period.



Schiff said the students were punished for holding up their peers and disrespecting lunch aides.

Schiff said some parents think a two-day detention went too far and others think it wasn't enough.

The school, which is located in Hunterdon County, said it wants students to know they can express themselves without disrupting other people.

I say they paid with legal money, let the kids go. We wouldn't have this problem if we just got rid of the blasted things though. :mad: :p

[molson]

40 Nickles wouldn't have been all that much less annoying for the other students who probably had about 30 minutes for lunch.

[sterlingice]

I'm in favor of getting rid of them. I think we've had threads about this before, tho

SI

[Cringer]

I'm in favor of getting rid of them. I think we've had threads about this before, tho

SI

We have had threads about everything, twice for half of everything. Never before has this topic been started with this story though. So take that.

[Logan]

I miss Jersey.

[sterlingice]

We have had threads about everything, twice for half of everything. Never before has this topic been started with this story though. So take that.

Very true. And who am I to mess with a former truck driver who could kick my rear end ;)

SI

[rowech]

In case you haven't heard, pennies take 1.4 cents each in order to make them. Our fine government at work!

[ThunderingHERD]

In case you haven't heard, pennies take 1.4 cents each in order to make them. Our fine government at work!

only briefly... no longer true

[Toddzilla]

Walgreens was the company that did the famous study a decade or so ago and found that if they were to round down the final sale price of every transaction, they would save millions of dollars a year in labor costs - the incremental amount of time it takes cashiers to count out change outweighs the actual change itself. The pennies, anyway.

[CU Tiger]

If you melt a penny and extract the copper the current salvage valuee for it is over 3cents.
Unfortunately it is illegal to do so, but is being done.