Penny protest
New Jersey’s Readington Middle School pardoned 29 students who were suspended for using legal tender in a protest against their too-short (30-minute) lunch break. Paying their $2 lunches entirely with pennies (5,800 of them total), the students brought the cafeteria line to a standstill and earned themselves a two-day suspension. Some of the non-suspended students expressed support for the “Readington 29” by abstaining from hot lunch later that week and having a packed lunch instead.
I think they deserve an “A” for creativity, at least.
In 2004, this guy tried to get rid of one million pennies.
In 2001, another guy tried to get rid of all the pennies.
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