A Col­orado court has refused to let a col­lege stu­dent pay a speed­ing ticket with coins, even though there is a coin-counting machine on the premises. Fort Collins munic­i­pal court work­ers said it would take too much time to count the coins Ted Nis­chan brought in to pay his $160 speed­ing ticket. Nis­chan said he didn’t under­stand why the court wouldn’t accept legal ten­der for his ticket, which he said he couldn’t afford to pay with funds from his bank account after pay­ing rent. He said the coins had been counted by his bank, though he couldn’t afford the fee the bank would charge for trans­fer­ring the money into bills. Mean­while, 20 feet away from court work­ers were seen using a coin-counting machine used by park­ing offices.

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