thought we could all use a little different news story, I for one, am
tired of hearing depressing news

A Southern Illinois man is using pennies to protest high electric rates.

Bob Han****, “My question is can the bank provide me with 52-thousand
262 pennies.”

Bob Han**** is bound and determined that his 522 dollar electric bill
won't go unnoticed by Ameren. His electric bill jumped almost 200
percent in one month and he wants to show Ameren how he feels.

He believes a payment in thousands of pennies will do the trick.

Ameren will get its 52-thousand two-hundred and sixty two pennies in six
well duck-taped boxes next week.

“And if can get a 100,150 or a 1000 people to do the same thing we can
put a real crimp in Ameren's system,“ says Han****.

This former math teacher says he feels like he is being ripped off by
the electric company and he's fed up.

Han****, “Most people laugh when I tell them what I'm going to do but
it's not funny if you're light bill is over 500 dollars.”

Han**** specifically wants the pennies mailed in loose form instead of
in rolls to make sure it's inconvenient.

Workers at the Bank of Carbondale say this is the first time anyone has
ever requested to pay a bill in pennies.

Han**** says that if he can cause Ameren a little inconvenience, it's
worth it to him

This guy ROCKS!!!

FedMan, I saw this guy on the news tonight -- they said he's paying
about fifty bucks in postage just to have the pennies shipped. I say
good for him, he's got a legitimate gripe....

yes it would seem like it I know some people that are customers of
Ameren and they too have had their share of troubles with them.

I read somewhere once that it is not LEGALLY binding for the electric
company to have to accept the payment that way....someone once tried to
pay federal taxes that way.

Ameren is like the focking oil companies, i.e. Exxon-Mobil making record
breaking profits and screwing out the little man. Also within the past
year, people in St. Louis had two power outages lasting more than a
week. All these people have Ameren, do see there is something funny
going on.

Ameren blows.

Good story FedMan. I had an electric bill here in Doo-Dah (Kansas) over
$500.00 once about 8 years ago. It was a mistake but almost took an act
of congress to get anyone to see that. I had to pay the bill and
complain for months to get anyone to listen.

They gave piddly credits back an inkling at a time.

I wish I would have thought of the penny thing! I would have had a
friend deliver the boxes to their Customer Service dept!

I would not have paid that postage bill though... lol.