While trying to pay the taxes for his son’s new Corvette, Nick Stafford of Cedar Bluff, Virginia was shocked to see a tax bill of $3,000 for just two cars. Knowing this couldn’t possibly be right, Stafford attempted to get some answers about the ridiculous fee.
He contacted the Lebanon DMV, but was immediately transferred to an office in Richmond who said they couldn’t help. Furious, Stafford submitted a request using the Freedom of Information Act to get a direct number for the Lebanon DMV. When he called it, they told him this phone line wasn’t open to the public, but eventually answered his questions.
Frustrated by the ridiculous red tape required to just get a few simple answers from his state government, Stafford filed 3 separate lawsuits after DMV employees refused to provide him with direct access phone numbers. “The phone numbers are irrelevant to me. I don’t need them. If they were going to inconvenience me then I was going to inconvenience them,” Stafford told the Herald Courier.
His vengeance didn’t stop there. After spending $165 in court fees, Stafford stilled owed $3,000 in taxes. He paid his bill in cold hard cash, literally, with 5 wheelbarrows full of pennies. Stafford paid 11 people $10/hour to help him open 3,000 rolls of pennies into the 5 wheelbarrows that he bought specifically for the task. He didn’t bother waiting for the DMV to count his cash, and left everything at their office. Including the cost of his wheelbarrows and manual labor fees, Stafford spent an additional $1,005 just to prove a point.
Now here’s a man who is not to be f***ed with.