I wish I had thought of this in high school. What I a great way to protest. About 29 kids at Readington Middle School, New Jersey decided to protest the short lunch period by paying for their lunch in pennies. Yep, entirely in pennies. That would be 200 pennies per person that cafeteria workers had to count. Brilliant!The downside is that the group apparently caused some students to go without lunch that day, which is just a confirmation of how short the lunch time must be.
The prank also got its participants two days' detention. I'm a little torn on that. The students didn't break any rules. They offered legal tender. They only inconvenienced some school employees. At the same time, they inconvenienced some other students who didn't get lunch. Everyone needs to get a healthy lunch (such as it is in public schools). So I think maybe they could use the detention time to think of ways to express their concerns that won't hurt fellow students.
I still thing the protest was brilliant. I was friends with some of the creative, rebellious types, but being the oldest child in my family I was just a little too, um, "follow the rules"to think of something like this. I'm not saying I wouldn't go along with this stunt, I just wouldn't have thought of it.
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I've always been of the mind that most breakfast burritos are a less than healthy way to start the day. A man in
Gillette, Wyoming, might agree. He recently bit into a convenience store bacon and egg burrito and broke his upper
right molar on a penny that was embedded in the breakfast roll-up. The man said that the wrapping was intact when
he bought the burrito, so he suspects that the pennies made their way into the food while it was being made. Try
as I might, none of the articles I found listed the brand of burrito or the convenience store.
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