A cop owed $ 915 to a man in Georgia after leaving his job last November.
But Andreas Flaten was surprised when he received his last payment: 90,000 pennies covered in fat, which were delivered directly to his home a few days ago, according to reports in the local press. Above the coins was an envelope with his last payment receipt and an explicit farewell message.
“It was a pretty childish thing,” Flaten stated.
Flaten said he left his job at Peachtree City s A OK Walker Autoworks in November. The company owed him his last check and had trouble receiving it, so he even had to enlist the help of the Georgia Department of Labor.
In mid-March, Flaten explained that he left home with his girlfriend and saw the stack of coins at the entrance to his garage. He assured that the cents were covered with an oily substance.
Now, her nightly routine is to clean the pennies to go change them. He commented that it takes him about an hour and a half to clean up a few hundred coins.
“I think it will be a lot of work for the money I had already earned,” he said. “It’s definitely not fair.”
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The owner of the store, Miles Walker, spoke to WGCL-TV and said he did not know whether or not he had left the pennies in front of Flaten’s house.
“I really don’t remember it,” he said. “It doesn’t matter; he was paid. That’s what’s important.”
Walker described Flaten as “loose.”
Flaten’s girlfriend, Olivia Oxley, said she hopes her boyfriend’s story draws attention to the way some people “are mistreated by their employers.”
Oxley noted that the couple is no longer bothered by the situation and now see it from a more positive perspective.
“With all those pennies, we’re sure to find some treasures. I already found a 1937,” Oxley commented. “After the first handful, all we had left was to laugh, because this poor miserable man took all this time to be cruel and vengeful. We flatly refuse to allow him to ruin us for a single moment.”