Take a penny, leave a penny. Just don't take them to City Hall. Brian Burza learned that last month when he went to pay his $20 parking ticket with a briefcase pouch full of loose change. "It was mostly pennies," Burza said. "There were a couple nickels and dimes in there, but it was mainly pennies that I had counted out." But the clerk at the payment center wouldn't take them. Neither would the supervisor, Marcus Chapple, who told Burza to get them changed at a bank. When Burza refused to and insisted that the city accept his pennies because they are U.S. currency, Burza says Chapple put the pennies in a bucket and told his co-workers that there would be free pennies for people that day. "When I saw him put everything in the bucket, I just left my ticket there and said that I considered it paid," Burza said. read more