Pissed At His Bank, Man Pays His Credit Card Bill A Penny At A Time Online

[matcom]

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TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian credit card holder is putting a new twist on an old trick practiced by disgruntled debtors -- repaying his bill in pennies to maximize the collector's inconvenience.

Unhappy when his Canadian bank began outsourcing some of its credit card processing to the United States, the man lodged his protest via the bank's online payment system, jamming its computers by making dozens of tiny payments a day.

Don Rogers said he was worried that anti-terrorism laws in the United States could allow the U.S. government to access his data without his consent.

"I don't want the CIA or George Bush to know how many cases of Viagra I bought last week, or what church or charities I donate to," he told Reuters.

Rogers said his card has since been canceled by Vancouver-based Citizens Bank, but he will continue paying his remaining balance of C$1,000 ($860) one little bit at a time.

He has also decided to run in the January 23 federal election as a candidate for a fringe party that wants to abolish the North American Free Trade Agreement linking Canada, the United States and Mexico.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-01-06T144203Z_01_EIC652906_RTRUKOC_0_US-PENNIES.xml&rpc=22

[GOPisEvil]

1. Excellent. This guy rocks!

"I don't want the CIA or George Bush to know how many cases of Viagra I bought last week, or what church or charities I donate to," he told Reuters.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[RebelOne]

2. My ex-husband did that one time.

We had a bill collector hounding us, so he went to the bank and got a few bags of pennies. Then he went to the collector's office, plopped the bags of pennies down and said, "Now, count them."

[Shell Beau]

3. Hahahaha!

:spray:

[jmowreader]

4. Citizens Bank is REALLY going to be out some cash over this one

This is an old freeper trick for screwing liberals who are accepting online donations.

It seems that the online-payment clearinghouses charge the recipient a 25 cent transaction fee every time they process an online payment, so the freepers will donate twenty dollars to the charity one cent at a time. This way, a $20 donation actually costs the recipient $480.

Remember Julie Hiatt-Steele? The woman Kenneth Starr tried to throw in prison for claiming Kathleen Willey was a liar? She set up a PayPal account to collect donations to a legal defense fund and the fucking freepers hit it with tens of thousands of one-cent donations. Now she's trying to pay both her lawyers AND PayPal.

If you get caught doing it they send you to prison, but it's hard to catch people doing it.

[AllegroRondo]

5. Lets all donate one cent to the Republican Party

it will cost them more than that just to process the payment and send out receipts.

[redqueen]

6. I like his views on NAFTA!

:bounce:

[SeattleGirl]

7. Right on, dude!!!

That's funny as hell, and pretty cool that the guy decided to run for office!