{"id":137537,"date":"2025-08-11T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137537\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:54:14","slug":"law-student-loses-cash-is-king-fight-over-parking-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137537\/","title":{"rendered":"Law student loses &#8216;cash is king&#8217; fight over parking fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Current Affair recently met Oliver, who <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/a-current-affair\/law-student-takes-cash-fight-to-court-over-97-parking-fine\/702c3249-8cd9-4acc-bfa7-481695b6213d\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"took his parking fine to court because he wanted to pay in cash.\">took his parking fine to court because he wanted to pay in cash.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The student who calls himself the Cash King is back and more broke than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Last month he launched a total rebellion against modern payment rules when he was given a parking fine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/41a8d0f2-6e62-4358-b5f5-8bfda9e0dc55.jpeg\"   alt=\"The student who calls himself the Cash King is back and more broke than ever.\"\/>The student who calls himself the Cash King is back and more broke than ever. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The university started making parking cashless, which I didn&#8217;t realise at the time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I, being a normal university student, didn&#8217;t have money in my bank account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So Oliver wrote a note.<\/p>\n<p>It said: &#8220;Dear parking inspector, cash is Australia&#8217;s legal tender. I am not available to pay by card right, but I can pay only pay in cash I&#8217;ll come down right now and pay. Here&#8217;s my number, give me a ring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oliver was fined $97.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Wollongong law student took his fight to court, representing himself and \ufeffarguing &#8220;cash is king&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I am wrong, let the judge tell me I am wrong,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Well, a magistrate has now told Oliver he was wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the full story in the video above.\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Current Affair recently met Oliver, who took his parking fine to court because he wanted to pay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-137537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115011418329769812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}