Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe FORT COLLINS, Colo., April 4 (UPI) -- 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 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, The Coloradoan reported Wednesday. Advertisement "It's not prudent use of taxpayer funds to have one of the clerks sit there counting quarters, nickels and pennies," municipal court supervisor Fran Seaworth said. 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. "This is what I've got," Nischan said Tuesday at a court hearing. "Please take it. It's real money." 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 is a coin-counting machine used by parking offices. "If municipal court wanted to borrow our coin-counting machine, I'd be willing to discuss that with them," said Randy Hensley, Fort Collins' parking services manager. Advertisement Seaworth said she was unaware of the counting machine, but added that even though the two departments are part of the same government, "we're totally separate."
