When Stephen Coyle received two parking tickets on the University of North Carolina-Charlotte’s campus, he jokingly told parking officials that he would pay them back in pennies.
It proved to be no joke. On July 2, Coyle filled three buckets with 60 pounds of pennies and took them to the school’s Parking Services office to pay a total of $110 in parking fines.
The penny payoff was born when Coyle, 26, and a group of friends did research on parking fine allocations and came across the school’s parking services website.
