Why is that childish? That seems to be a perfectly fine protest of the actions of Mike Ragsdale. What is childish is a Mayor who makes over $210,00 a year charging meals in Knoxville to the taxpayers.

Mike, How would you like to be the employee that had to handle and count it, transport it to the bank etc...?

Especially when it makes a point. Maybe all Knox County taxpayers should pay their wheel tax in pennies and call themselves the "Penny Pinchers". What is that saying... "Mind your pennies and the dollars take care of themselves"? Surely Knox Count government isn't minding its pennies and certainly the dollars are not taking care of themselves.

Oh and we could have a Doberman Pinscher as our mascot. OMG, this sounds like a Lumpy idea!

and far funnier.

Haddock tendered the cow in payment of the income tax, but the Collector refused “objecting that it would be difficult or even impossible to pay the cow into the bank.” To this, Haddock “politely” suggested that the Collector could simply “endorse the cow to any third party to whom he owed money, adding that there must be many persons in that category.

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Y'all need to cut these good folks some slack.
They've been reamed by the county and not even kissed. The Fields family lives at the base of a hill that is being (poorly) developed. They've been flooded and eroded by the runoff from that development, and have had a helluva time getting the county to enforce its own regs. I'd say they're entitled to let off a little steam.

Heh. Brian and Angie Fields were active in lobbying for better stormwater regulations last year after a subdivision development near their house started shedding muddy water onto their land during rains. They had county engineering and several county officials out to see the violation first hand, but the county would not even force the developer to erect a silt fence.

I'm sure paying property tax is especially frustrating when you've tried and failed to get simple enforcement of the law.

Hearing about their probs, I think they should have paid in pennies.

Pam Strickland

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut

I admire the Fields. I think their idea was clever and made a great point!

Nothing childish about it. There are sooo many citizens of Knox County that are fed up to the gills with the actions of our county government. Sometimes, you have to do something a little extreme to get a point across. I feel badly for what this couple has been through. But, I'd still find the action warranted if it was done by someone without such a background of transgressions by the county.

Poor clerks indeed. If our elected officials can take guests out for lobster on the taxpayers dime, and let them haul out extra crustaceans in to-go boxes, they can transport a few rolls of coins to the bank. If they can pick up case upon case of booze for the multitude of hosted functions, paid for from semi-hidden hospitality accounts and from funds solicited from private donors who didn't know what it was being used for, they can haul a few coins to the bank. If they can sanction allowing people on the county payroll time off to cart campaign signs all over the area, they can haul a few coins to the bank. I think Ragsdale should push the wheelbarrow himself, except I'd be afraid it would inspire a new form of wheel tax. Take out his expenses, his lunch, his dry cleaning, and other incidentals he might incur in the walk to the bank, and there probably wouldn't be anything left. Better to just put the change in another hidden account to be used for tipping the pizza delivery.

Who was the developer whose development project dumped drainage on the Fields' property?

There's a difference between regular county employees who are just doing their job and the "entitled" from Suite 615. Don't lose that distinction. -- s.

Who was the developer whose development project dumped drainage on the Fields' property?

This guy?

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Or this guy?

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Some people don't have to follow the rules.

Ragsdale has shown his lack of integrity and disrespect for knox county tax payers. It is imperative that we push for his resignation or we are in for 4 more years of this.

To clear up a few things, I did not send my wife to do anything!!!! I did not even know she was going Yesterday. I wanted to wait until the last day to pay. My wife had yesterday off and decide to go without me. I have had dealings with county officials in the past and my wife was afraid I might say something " politically incorrect " as I have before.

Again, to be clear--we're not sticking any unwanted labels on anyone over there. In his interview, Brian Fields said he'd seen how childish elected officials acted, and he decided to go for a bit of it himself.

--"All of our elected officials pretty much act childish," he said. "I figured I would do a little bit, too."-- is the quote preceding your selection.

How would I feel if I had to count it and transport it?

If it were my JOB, what I'm PAID to do, I'd do it!

Childish? Nope.

Funny as Hell? Yes.

Back when KUB required deposits to establish service (and wouldn't take letters-of-credit from out-of-state utility providers), I paid my hook-up
deposit in PENNIES.

The lady refused to take it, whereupon I quoted the old "legal tender for all debts public and private" line.

She snorted.
She muttered under her breath.

But she DID it.

After all, it was her JOB.

The only thing that might have been funnier was bringing the gold (color) coins in bags with dollar signs on the outside. This whole thing is great theatre.

PS. FYI Spellcheck does not like McDuck.

I WAS ALL FOR YOU UNTIL I SAW THAT BEANSTER WAS ON YOUR SIDE. WATCH YOUR BACK OL BOY. SHE CAN CUT YOU LIKE SHE DOES KFD

We're getting a lot of comments from AMERICANS lately.

Yikes!

Funny, you always struck me as a broken beer bottle kinda gal ...