I ask because the chap in this article tried paying for petrol with a £20 coin, which seemed to confuse people & the police. [https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/23858388.man-arrested-using-20-coin-stockton-petrol-station/?ref=twtrec](https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/23858388.man-arrested-using-20-coin-stockton-petrol-station/?ref=twtrec)
I wouldn’t expect 99% of places to accept such coinage.
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Can already tell he’s a massive bell end with no real hobbies. Another dense idiot who has no idea what ‘legal tender’ means.
> Legal tender has a narrow technical meaning which has no use in everyday life. It means that if you offer to fully pay off a debt to someone in legal tender, they can’t sue you for failing to repay.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/what-is-legal-tender
Yeah, Scottish notes doesn’t usually go down well in English shops.
This is exactly what the guy was hoping for. These audit channels are insufferable, basically just baiting the police and then shouting “Am I being detained?!” at them until either:
a. They’re arrested (and can make a dozen videos about their oppression and possibly sue as this guy did) and then released without charge.
b. Police let him go because “being a nobhead” isn’t strictly a crime and he’s not worth the paperwork (his new video “Owning the police with FACTS and LOGIC!” goes viral).
I tried paying for stuff with coins from the Falkland Islands and shops took a while to look at them and then accept it was UK legal tender.
They shouldn’t have given him anything. It just emboldens him and others like him to do it again.
Also, not to sound like a Reddit Lawyer, but my take is that as far as I’m aware shops can refuse to accept your money and ask you to pay another way. The person on the till would be at worst violating BP company policy which is not a police matter.
Just another twat profiting from being a twat because he knows how to play the system. Hopefully he will come a cropper eventually.
Legal tender only has meaning when you’re trying to repay an existing debt. Shops can refuse to accept any kind of payment, which is how card-only shops are legal.
Most of the time, it’s cheaper to refuse business from a customer that has unusual currency than risk it being fake.